warrior weapon woes.

[gasan]

I have a level 9 warrior and my plan is to take him to RNG/SAM status. I have been using 2 weps do far......a dagger which I have at lvl 24 and a sword at 22. I have not used a shield as I figured raising my evasion skill was more important. Can I get some advice on what, if any more weapons I should use? Should I use a shield?

Thanks all.

[AmusedObserver]

a number of points. First, evasion skill is secondary for warriors. Warriors are tanks, and take damage. They also block blows using weapons to parry and shield to block. if you were planning to play ninja as main and warrior sub, then it would make sense to raise evasion skill. otherwise, shield is more valuable. of course, it'll be a different story if you use a 2 headed weapon.

Your weapon skills are fairly high for your job level. I can't imagine you using a low-damage dealing dagger to fight.

When you reach level ten, you may want to consider getting a Legionnaire Axe. It deals a lot of damage, and as a one-headed weapon allows you to use shield too.

[Avenger02]

Most of the time I play with a shield on my warrior and the funny part is that my evasion is maxed out where as my shield is only about halfway skilled. So if I were you I would put that shield on and see if your evasion still increases regardless....

[Pilsbane]

If you are going to use a 1-hand weapon buy a shield, it helps. Get an Aspis, 3 def usable at level 9, relatively cheap.

With a weapon and shield combo your Evasion, Parry, and Shield abilities will all raise. Evasion raises a lot faster and for a warrior should be easy to cap for each level as you level up. Even my girlfriend's WHM/BLM has her evasion capped and she stopped melee'ing around level 10.

Some ideas for cheap weapons, at least on my server:

Level 9: Spatha--there is a quest for this or you can buy it for cheap. Its an 11 damage 1h sword.

Level 10: Lgn. Axe--as AmusedObserver pointed out this is a good weapon for its level. It's only 1000 conquest points from Bastok. It's about the same as a Spatha though, so its up to you which way you want to go.

Level 14: Plantreaper--nice damage on a Scythe. It was especially nice when fighting snippers with high defense. People using a sword would sometimes hit for 0, while I was hitting for 10 or more still. They only sell for about 2000 on Fairy.

Level 18: Fire Sword--I found this thing to be leaps and bounds better than the other weapons available for under 10000 at this level. There were some really nice 2h swords and axes but they were all spendy in comparison, so I went with this. It was so nice I just leveled all the way to 30 with it.

[gasan]

Thanks for the great advice!