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As far as i can tell, the physical DD's Lancer, Marauder, Pugilist, Gladiator and Archer seem to have roughly the same damage output. But the Damage of each class is really based off what kind of monster you are fighting. If it is a heavy armor type, the Piercing type damage of a Lancer will out damage the Blunt type of a Pugilist, or that is at least what i have seen so far. Thankfully each class has a few types of weapons they can use for each kind of fight.

So in the end each class seems to be roughly the same, just each has a heavy focus on one kind of damage, but still have a few other weapon choices to help them do a bit more damage to monsters they will not normally do much too.

Lancer weapons so far are as this.

Harpoon's are a mix of mainly Piercing and a little bit of Blunt.
Lance's are a pure Piercing type weapons.
Spear's and Halberd's seem to be a bit mixed but consist of Piercing, Slashing and Blunt type damage.

Well thats my opinion anyway hopefully it helps and if i am wrong hopefully someone will post about it properly :S

Edited, Sep 18th 2010 11:37pm by Ritsum

To add to that, I picked up a few Bronze Javelins to play around with, even though their optimal rank is 12, and I was only rank 6 or 7.

Javelins are 50% Piercing, 50% Projectile. Makes me wonder if any Archer abilities might come into play on throwing weapons.

Pure DPS & TP manipulation.

Lowers enemy TP, enhances self TP, enhances party TP.

Any attempt to rank DPS at this point seems pointless. Most people have not even seen the mid level abilities and I havent even seen anyone w a better weapon than the lvl 9 harpoon.

Out of the 20 javelins I bought, I think I used 10. Out of those 10, I believe I hit about five times. One of those five times appeared to give me a polearm skillup.

I still believe my accuracy (or lack thereof) was tied to the fact that I was below their optimal rank.

I did get "The target is too far away." a few times, so there's a definite maximum range. I can't say for sure what it is, but I'm sure Archer's standard attack has a longer range than throwing weapons.