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Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 440 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 440 Donate  | axe or sword ? hi peeps, im new gunna be making a char as soon as the account mantinance starts workin !!
im guna make a war ... lvl him to 30 and make a sam, was wonderin if i should use a Katana or an axe while i get my war from lvl 1 > 30 ?? |  | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 10-25-2006, 07:34 AM | #2 (permalink) | | Fence Sitter Brain of Knowledge Join Date: May 2006 Location: UK Posts: 1,342 Style: Dark - Version 5 Thanks: 53
Thanked 91x in 68 Posts Gil: 4,717 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 4,717 Donate | Re: axe or sword ? War get A in Axe, A+ in GA, so these should be your weapons of choice while levelling warrior. Only use a GKT when you are actually levelling sam.
I would also start with mnk, get him to 18, then you have a good sub for your warrior to take to 37 (which is the max for your sub job). Then you can have fun with samurai!   Originally Posted by Aksannyi  | | "As a RDM, it should irk you to the depths of your soul when a mob had the audacity to buff itself in front of you." | | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 10-25-2006, 07:36 AM | #3 (permalink) | | Shikaree N Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 699 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 37
Thanked 44x in 29 Posts Gil: 3,787 Bank: 43,008 Total Gil: 46,795 Donate | Re: axe or sword ? war can't use katana or great katana anyway~ | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 10-25-2006, 07:39 AM | #4 (permalink) | | Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 951 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 237
Thanked 69x in 61 Posts Gil: 2,361 Bank: 116,547 Total Gil: 118,909 Donate | Re: axe or sword ? WAR cannot use katana in this game~
For WAR, Great Axe is very useful at low levels because of "Shield Break" weapons skill.
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Thanked 367x in 228 Posts Gil: 20,423 Bank: 84,129 Total Gil: 104,552 Donate | Re: axe or sword ? There is a chance in early parties that you will do a lot of tanking in which case going sword/shield or axe/shield couldn't hurt. Great axe works well too for general melee. It would be best to keep all three skilled as much as possible really. I agree with Kirsteena as far as the jobs go. Level monk to 18 for a sub to warrior, then take warrior to 37 for a sub to Samurai. 
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Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 155 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 155 Donate | Re: axe or sword ? What i did was use sword for the first 10 lvls, then i started to use the GA after that. You can't use a GA during lvls 1-7 i think. I cant quite remember what the first GA is. >< | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 10-25-2006, 10:46 AM | #7 (permalink) | | Wants your picture FFXIWiki Team Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Puerto Rico Posts: 3,219 Style: Light - Version 6 My Mood:  Thanks: 287
Thanked 837x in 444 Posts Gil: 62,556 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 62,556 Donate | Re: axe or sword ? The first Great Axe is level 5, and it blows everything else out of the water for partying. Slamming a nice -40 Evasion debuff (see: Shield Break) on an IT mob works wonders for killing it faster. Axe/Shield is nice if you're soloing (in which case you don't need Shield Break's -evasion, and Raging Axe will do about the same damage) OR if you're main tanking and your party's being stupid and fighting things that are too strong (and even then one could argue that you'd take less damage by shield breaking the mob and killing it faster.)
Basically...if you have to pick one, make it Great Axe. If you want to be versatile, level both. If you're a perfectionist, you can level sword as well, but Great Axe will be better in 90% of the situations, while Axe will be better in 7 out of the remaining 10% (most swords are fairly weak early on.) |  | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 01-30-2007, 10:42 PM | #9 (permalink) | | Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 64 Style: Light - Version 6 Thanks: 4
Thanked 0x in 0 Posts Gil: 1,310 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 1,310 Donate | Re: axe or sword ? nvm i miss read your q, but yeah war cant equip a gkt | | | ::Quote Selected:: | | | 01-31-2007, 08:04 AM | #10 (permalink) | | anti-spam Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 5,535 Style: Dark - Version 5 My Mood:  Thanks: 22
Thanked 64x in 59 Posts Gil: 51,240 Bank: 0 Total Gil: 51,240 Donate | Re: axe or sword ? luisa, please mind the dates of the original post. this was posted 3 months ago and answered at the same time | | | ::Quote Selected:: | |
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