Should I...get a refund?Follow

Well allrighty then lol. To each their own, to each their own...


edit: bah, didn't realize there was another post in between there...added quotes so people know what the hell i am referring to.

Edited, Mar 5th 2009 10:39pm by itsjustme

I don't think you understand the vague advice given in this thread milich; use whatever weapon you think looks best. Although Mazmaz's post wasn't very good, he (and I) is not taking that piece of advice out of context or making any leaps in reasoning. What if someone in your party thinks clubs looks best and uses them? It doesn't fall out of the advice given, you even defend it too, but I'm sure you would tell them to use something else. If you do, then the advice is obviously flawed.

WAR is versatile in weapons and equipment
WARs' can use clubs
John is a WAR
Use whatever looks best
John likes clubs the most
C: John should use clubs.

I know clubs are the extreme case that doesn't happen often, but you have to evaluate what's been said everywhere.

I'm going to have to agree with this ...

What Milich said.

woah, woah, woah... People infinite chain imps???

I do that duo with my RDM friend.

The thing with sky weapons was that you could get infinite chain, but you had to have a very specific kill speed to do it due to the long respawn times. If you killed too fast and you ran out of mobs, and obviously if you killed too slow the chain ended. I think the best I've ever seen personally was 27 just because we cleared out both areas.

were you an infinite chain KRT BRD puller too? i miss BRDs like that.

We always killed too fast.

Ditto, that's the thing that annoys me the most by far about windower.

Yeah, if I can work this out it will be a godsend...

I'm not completely against DW'ing axes, but I certainly have a preference personally for a GAxe. As a footnote, I also have GAxe merits capped and only a couple into Axes, and that makes a difference.

I recently sold my Maneater because I realized I haven't used it in about a year. I kept my Woodville's b/c it's the cheaper of those two axes and I want the option to DW with the Joyeuse I got for my RDM when I feel like it. I can't say I've missed the Maneater.

Many gear choices, including weapons, are situational to an extent. That doesn't mean that anything goes; it means anything within reason goes. And yes, WAR is about versatility. I would say dealing heavy damage is what I focus on most of the time, not just because of the damage dealt but also because it's what gives me the ability to tank in small situations and also pull hate back off the healer who's trying desperately to save my Oh-Crap-ThirdEye-Isn't-Up-Yet butt while I finish the mob off. Dealing heavy damage is a very important part of our versatility.

It all still comes down to Player Skill > Gear (again, within reason). The compliments I've gotten on my WAR have been because I had the sense to use my TP at an opportune moment, didn't die despite doing enough damage to pull hate off the tank for a short duration, voke adds/pets before they could glance at mages, and just simply be willing to do whatever is in my power to make whatever I'm involved in succeed. The times I've won parses that people have done were because I used my brain and stayed alive (or reraised and ran right back in) to deal more damage while the other DD's were whining for an R3 as if they can't ever get a meripo or do Campaign.

So, if there's not a huge disparity between DW'ing and GAxe with whatever gear you have, it's your call. Just don't gimp your damage and your ability to be versatile for the sake of doing "what feels best" to you.

Also, I don't know if anyone has mentioned it here since I didn't quite read all the flaming, but try to get a Berserker's Axe ASAP to bridge between Fourth Toporok and Perdu. The difference is noticeable easily without any parsing. My suggestion is to sell the Maneater and use that gil to apply towards a Berserker's Axe. Soon after getting a Berserker's, I stopped DW'ing and never looked back.