Weapons...

[DMC]

Ok i just started ranger << 10RNG/5NIN. I was wondering what weapons should i use when my rng gets to lv 20, 2 axes, 2 knives or a combination or both? Right now im using an axe and i want to build tp really fast, Just want to know which one would be better to build tp faster or which one would be better. Thanks for replies/comments.... /bow

[Rodin]

Use both and switch between them for whatever reason if you run out of arrows and melee or something..... When you can get the ARcher's knives or whatever they're called, use two of them.

[Timoham]

A RNG shouldn't really be meleeing for damage. At 28, get two archer's knives. Stick with these until you get a fransisca and/or hawker's knives (which can be really, really expensive). There's really no reason to get any weapons other than that. As you level, though, you will want to keep both dagger and axe capped so you can use the fransisca later and do atleast 1 damage in between firing to get some tp Until you get archer's knives, in my opinion you should get a beestinger for the +agi it gives.

[Peppara]

yeah keep the bee stinger until lvl 28 I also used the parrying knife that boosts parrying skill +10 until lvl 28 also so I could block an extra attack or 2 until then ^^ I have 1 hawkers knife and 1 archer's knife right now almost have enough for my second hawkers knife ^^

[PhoR]

at 20 with nin sub, two battleaxe's really does do some good extra damage inbetween shots.
I didn't notice any difference in racc when using beestinger, but I did notice that my battleaxe hit for 20-25 and my beestinger hit for 2-4... so I stuck with battleaxe's until 28 when i switched to two archer's knives. (even with dual archer's knives, expect to miss shots at 28. for some reason, at 30 when you get your second acc+ passive trait, your acc will skyrocket and you will hardly miss again.)

[Peppara]

yeah I noticed that also after level 30 but you can totally tell the difference at level 28 with dual archer's knives. But the difference between 28 & 30+ is amazing.

[Timoham]

After 30, you will still miss... every 1/59283579285728975 shots. :D I find that I usually have 100% racc per mob using the FFXI parser.