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Well, if you all know me by now, I am one of the MOST INDIVIDUALISTIC players on Quetzalcoatl.
Don't believe me? Search for one of my rants... Use the Search function at the top of the page and enter the key words The Variable Melee.
I'm a major individualist, and a Lv. 66 WAR/SAM, going for Lv. 75... I'm getting up there.
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To be quite honest with you... I think if you're gonna play WAR should LEVEL Great Axe.
Do NOT get me wrong, I'm not saying use Great Axe as your main weapon... I'm saying... keep it leveled...
Reason being... the Breaks...
Recently, I learned Full Break...
You learn it at Lv. 65 WAR... It owns... You break ALL main enemy parameters... Attack, Defense, Accuracy, and Evasion... And it helps out the party ALOT... Afterwards... Follow up with a "Raging Rush" that can do sometimes 800+ damage.
Guess what? As a WAR, as far as weapon skills go... When it gets time to quest for the super-weapon skills, you can do these:
Quested Weapon Skills That Warriors Can Learn:
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Retribution : Staff
Black Halo : Club
Steel Cyclone : Great Axe
Evisceration : Dagger
Decimation : Axe
Savage Blade : Sword
Ground Strike : Great Sword
Asuran Fists : Hand-To-Hand
Spiral Hell : Scythe
Impulse Drive : Polearm
Quested Weapon Skills That Warriors Cannot Learn:
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Empyrial Arrow: Archery
Detonator : Marksmanship
Blade: Ku : Katana
Tachi: Kasha : Great Katana
You can get pretty much all the QUESTED weapon skills if you take WAR to 72... The only ones you can't get are the ones that are specific to the three jobs RNG, NIN, and SAM.
You know what? I plan to learn all of those.
I'm leveling Great Axe, Axe, Sword, Great Sword, and Hand-To-Hand as we speak.I just hit Lv. 66 today, and I'm INCHES away from learning "Mistral Axe"... A VERY nice weapon skill that allows you to do Light-Based Skillchains... You throw your Axe like a boomerang, hit the enemy, and catch your axe back in your hand.
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If you're taking WAR, MNK, or even DRG to the top, I applaud you.
There's only a HANDFUL of American WARs that are taking it all the way to the top... Me, Rolliefingaz, Ziox, Hillie, Tsoni, Wyldarmz, and soon, Kateverlasting will be joining our ranks (I was just telling her everything she needs to do for WAR AF.)
Kateverlasting is raising subs right now... MNK... THF... SAM... NIN...
I'm leveling up as many weapons as I can...
That's the beauty of playing WAR... It's like a RDM, but in Melee form... WAR is good if you're planning to be an "Individualist Melee"... That's the key with WAR... See what me & kat are doing? We're Keeping our options open.
RDM works with the same principle... If you wanna be back up healer, sub WHM... If you wanna be the "Typical RDM", sub BLM... If you want to be the "Buff-O-Maniac", sub SMN with all the Avatars, and you can do Avatar Buffs... Or, if you want to be the "Individualist RDM" like Neogearzx is... Go RDM/DRK (Yes, I thought it was crazy too, Just like "NIN/BLM", but it CAN be done.) ... With DRK sub, I call this the "Enfeeble-Maniac"... He Absorbs the crap out of the enemy, and if I'm not mistaken, he can STUN it too.
As a WAR or a RDM... Most of the time, us "Red-Colored Players" act as more or less of a "Trump Card"... We're there to back up everyone else, we're good at soloing stuff with the right subjob, and if the group's in a pinch, we can come in REALLY handy.
I should KNOW playing WAR like the back of my fuckin' HAND.
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I'm not trying to force you to use a Great Axe... I'm trying to give you a different perspective of looking at it...
You don't have to be "Generic", you can be "Versatile" like me.
That's all I have to say.
