Weapon of choice for HNM...

[NeoForte]

Well I was lvling up my Bow Skill to 175 to get Sidewinder this week and a member from my LS was there with me. He was a THF getting ready for an HNM battle with one of the gods and he was lvling up Sword for Spirits Within. He told me that as a SAM I should lvl up Sword for Spirits too because I can unleash many with Meditate. I always thought that Great Katana was the weapon we used for HNMs too. Well, do we use Sword for HNM? Or do we use Great Katana and provide renkei assistance? I know I don't have to worry about lvling up Sword to 175 (can't cap it at that yet) or fighting HNMs at my current lvl but its good to keep in mind as I go up to that point.

[Saedius]

everyone who can use a sword does lvl it eventually for HNM fights. nothing like 600 DMG unresistable right of the bat.

[2.0]

You gotta do you man. The Great Katana is the best weapon you got so that's the best weapon to use. Just make sure you have a lot of accuracy and a bard.

[bbcradical_ed]

From my sam friend who does nothing but fight HNM (so jealous ; , he told me on Genbu, and other high defense HNM, you need Spirits. On normal HNM, like Behemoth, Roc, etc. GK is best because you can hit it for a reasonable amount of dmg.

[Kyoujin]

Your THF friend is right. Once you get to gods and such you won't be using GK anymore. Level up your sword. You probably won't need more than 175 sword skill, as SW is a strange skill ** that never misses, but I'd level it to cap anyway. Never know when there might be a trash mob to slap around for TP.

**SW damage seems to be based off TP and HP only. At 300% it does roughly 50% of your current HP in damage.

[NeoForte]

I see thank very much for your responces. I guess once I hit the Lvl my Sword can get to Lv175 skill i will lvl it up.

[replica]

eh, i dunno for most god fights i just meditate, step in and fui WS.. then step out :x more damage doing 3 fui ws than 1 spirits >.> there's only a few rare cases in which you -have- to use spirits as sam (start of the fight is always nice)

[davidmmmm9]

for things like king behe, aspi, and kirin all melee use spirits. I wouldn't even worry about it until you're a high enough level to join an HNM ls. By the time you're that level it's much easier to level low level weapons. You can take sword skill from 100-200 in garliage on bats/beetles, then weapons/bones from key parties. And being at a higher level you'll have much better accuracy and the skills will fly by faster (and ask for a haste if you can)

[SilverBlood]

You only need spirits within for mobs with high defense. For byakko seiryu sazaku etc.. I sata them with kasha and gekko for 1000+ dmg with +45 str equip macros and the weak HNMs like Behemoth, simurgh,serket etc.. for 1200dmg. Spirits for mobs like Genbu , Aspid, King Behe etc..

I recomend making +str macros and +acc macros for gaining tp on mobs like byakko seiryu and Suzaku. With some bard songs ull be able to get 100 tp in between your meditate timers and do insane amounts of dmg.

[Velandil]

Unfortunately at my lvl, I hardly ever hit the HNMs so I have to resort to Spirits... +41 acc doesnt seem to do anything , but hopefully by the time I reach lvl 70-71 (i think) for optical hat and kamewari, i'll actually do something with the GK.

[aphon]

what gear do you have to add 45str?

[Yukimura]

You gotta do you man.

Did this make sense to anyone else?? Anyways, yah i'd go with sword aswell. But i've seen those screens when subbing thf do some wicked dmg with G.Katana.

[Rawls]

Originally posted by aphon
what gear do you have to add 45str?

http://b.ffxionline.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47889

[Yukimura]

Originally posted by Rawls
http://b.ffxionline.com/forums/showt...threadid=47889

thats what i was talking about.