So here is a guide that i wrote for my guild forum a while ago and i think there may be similar guides on the forum but hopefully this gives a second perspective on why or why not each of the 4 weapons may or may not suit your style.
Ok so recently a guild member asked me a few questions and i filled guild chat up with everything i knew about weapons so here it is written in stone for everyone to read.
First thing you want to consider is what you want to do in the game. Do you want to fight other players? Do you want to only fight monsters? Do you want to not fight at all and defend yourself? Ill start by listing all the good and bad things about each weapon so that you have something to base your decision on. Something else that needs to be listed so you understand is the order of dragon weapon (the best weapons in game) lvl96 is the lowest and its called flame, lvl97 is called green, lvl98 is called gold, lvl99 is white and lvl100 is black.
Gun
- extremely low defense
- highest attack
- attack speed is not slow but not fast
- will almost always lose a fight if the person your fighting gets close enough to hit you
- ranged attack
- ultimate skill gives you perfect accuracy for 1 minute (but you cant move)
- wounding shot skill makes target walk slowly so they dont get close to you quickly
- unless you have the best armor in the game you cannot afk fight mobs with gun
- dragon guns (lvl96+) are always sold and for the least amount of silver out of all 4 dragon weapons
- only 1 gun in the game loses durability so chances are you will never need to repair your gun (unless your me because i have the one that loses durability)
Those are the basic facts about gun but let me put it all into perspective. If you want to pvp (player vs player) make sure you have another high level weapon to switch to when someone gets close because gun has terrible defense but if you do have another weapon to switch to then gun is the best thing in the world for you because you can knock out a ton of the targets hp before you fight them face to face. If you only want to fight monsters then just plain and simple dont choose gun it will not work very well. If you dont want to fight at all then gun is an OK choice as long as its for self defense. With a gun you can hit someone with wounding shot and get away from them so you dont have to fight them at all. If you do plan on getting up to lvl96+ gun it will be easy for you to find a dragon gun for fairly cheap.
Axe
- second highest attack
- slightly lower defense then other melee weapons (without taking skills into consideration)
- ultimate skill is amazing
- slow attack speed
- half of the axe skills add defense or reduce damage
- harder to afk mobs then sword or falchion but still possible
- dragon axes are always sold and for almost as low as dragon guns
To put that all into perspective because of the lowered defense (-20% from when no weapon is equipped) and the slow attack speed axe is probably not the best weapon if its your only weapon but when used with another weapon it can be deadly. In pvp against a sword or falchion chances are you will lose if you both have the same armor but if you only use axe for the ultimate skill then switch to another weapon it is a HUGE advantage. In some cases i have seen (been hit for) over 4000 damage by a higher level player using a dragon axe. If that doesnt kill someone then it will make it easier to finish them off with another weapon. Dont think that your going to be doing quite that much because like i said this guy who hit me for that much was far above your standard dragon axe user but you can still do 2000+ with flame axes. If you just want to defend yourself or fight mobs axe wont really be as good its more a pvp oriented weapon. Another interesting thing about axe is that it has 2 defense oriented skills (block and defensive stance). When you use defensive stance it will take your defense higher then a falchion user with the same armor (if the skill defensive stance is lvl10) and the block skill reduces damage done to you by ALOT but block is a passive skill so it is random when you block an attack. When your in defensive stance you are unable to move which makes it easy for someone to step away and wait until that skill runs out and your def returns to normal. If defensive stance didnt end when you moved then axe would be a much better weapon but because it does and its so easy to avoid it makes axe much weaker in pvp.
Sword
- the middle weapon everything about it is not good and not bad
- ultimate skill is decent (5 quick consecutive hits for higher then normal damage)
- defense is not lowered or raised
- attack is the lowest of all 4 weapons but not by much
- attack speed is a bit more then axe but less than falchion
- dragon swords are often sold for more then axe and gun but less then falchion
- ive been told the skill turns other weapons accuracy into mush and makes the other person miss ALOT
- most accurate weapon
To translate all of that sword is like the benchmark weapon. There is nothing special about it and its is a good all around weapon. If you want to do a bit of pvp and have something to defend yourself and fight mobs when needed sword is a good choice. But because there isnt anything that stands out about it its the worst weapon to use in combination with another weapon but it does make you a consistant and average player.
Falchion
- everyone and their 13 grandsons use falchion
- best defense out of all weapons
- highest attack speed
- attack is lower then axe but because of the attack speed it does the most damage per second out of all weapons
- Donald Trump can barely afford to buy a good dragon falchion so unless your EXTREMELY lucky chances are you wont even be able to afford the lowest level one with no bonuses on it
- ultimate skill is the only skill in the game that can hit more then 1 target at once
- best weapon for afk fighting (loses durability very quickly due to fast hit rate)
- on top of naturally fast attack speed skills add alot more speed
- fairly accurate but you wont notice the 1 miss out of 100 swings in under 1 minute (in pvp this is mostly true against people who dont have 1000000 dodge but on hurricane island accuraccy bonuses are a must to be able to hit) <- thx fleshy
Watching 2 falchions fight is hilarious because its just a blur of swings and someone always dies in like 10 seconds. The ultimate skill hits for half of what you normally do for damage TO EVERYTHING THAT HITS YOU. If you have 800 grizzly bears attacking you and you normally do 300 damage to them on a normal hit then when you use the ultimate skill you can be doing 150 damage to 800 bears at once. The increased defense meens that you will be able to afk fight higher level mobs then the other weapons but you may not survive all night because of the high attack speed your weapon loses durability faster then other weapons. With a falchion as your main weapon you should easily dominate axes and guns (if you get close to the gunner) if they are wearing the same lvl weapon and armor as you. When fighting a sword chances are you will win but the sword skill that turns down your accuracy hurt falchion quite a bit.
So what does all of this information meen? Well in my opinion (not necessarily the right opinion) the combination of Gun and Axe is one of the best for pvp and it is definantly right for me. In my situation i have a very nice gun and very nice ornaments making it possible for me to kill players of my level before they get close to me (sometimes) and if they do get close to me then i am able to finish them off with the axe ultimate skill because it does an amazing amount of damage in 1 hit. The way my character is built it will be hard for me to fight the best mobs alone (not impossible) but if there is someone else to take the mob hitting(a falchion or sword user) them then we will kill it alot faster then if it was just 2 falchions or 2 swords. Another good combination in my opinion would be falchion and axe. First hit someone with the axe special then switch to falchion so you have alot more defense and more attack speed.
*Removed price list from 2008
- Ele
Original guide edited by xKaMikAx because my spelling wasnt great
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Last edited by xanthian31 at 2011-1-17 00:43 ]
