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Have you ever made a weapon...

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Sun, 11/06/2011 - 06:06

Caramel-Bear

...and realized how awesome it is?

Happened to me when I crafted a flourish. I mainly used DA and Silent Nightblade to do my JK runs. I crafted a flourish just for the heck of it and wasn't all that impressed with it until I upgraded it into a Grand Flourish and brought it into Tier 3 and realized how amazing it is. I loved how useful the charge is, being able to kill the healer before it puts up the bubble and pretty much killing anything that doesn't resist it if you manage to land all the hits.

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 06:38

Bopp

that's the one

I find that a lot of people are skeptical of piercing swords. Maybe because the swing-stab-stab combo takes a little practice, to aim correctly. Or maybe they try to use them on constructs (or slimes), which resist piercing.

The first time I used a piercing sword, it was truly a revelation. It was certainly the single biggest equipment advancement I've ever seen. In a couple of cases, I have convinced friends to try out piercing swords. The person always says something like, "Wow. I wish I'd tried this sooner!" It completely changes the game (against beasts and fiends).

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 09:48

Flists

I dunno, I made my BTB

I dunno, I made my BTB because I needed something against fiends and beasts. I knew about the bonuses, so...

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 11:11

Nekroskoma

i made my shivermist from a

i made my shivermist from a haze bomb back when you could, also my polaris

was not disappointed at all

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 12:16

Fradow

There was some moments like

There was some moments like that, yes.

The first was with Snarby sword. You don't realize how easy wolvers become before you actually try it.

The second was trying a sealed sword. I thought I was more into fast swords before I try a slow sword. Man I was wrong. Since that, I stopped using a brandish at all never looked back.

The last one was when I tried status bomb, in particular shock bomb. I thought it would deal very minor damage. Again I was wrong. Tried it in JK palace, it does TONS of small damage everywhere, all the time. It more or less replaced Shivermist in my eyes (which actually went from very useful to "I don't want that in my party" everywhere save FSC).

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 12:25

Marqui

Yeah, I had gotten myself a

Yeah, I had gotten myself a Gran Faust and an Avenger way back in the day, and I thought slow swords were MY swords,
but then I heard good things about Blizzbrand and Barbarous thorn, and decided to craft them in my spare time.
They make the game SO MUCH MORE FUN, not to mention quicker.
Haven't looked back to the sealed series since.

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 18:39

Gloomba

i got a spine cone becuz i

i got a spine cone becuz i need a piercing bomb i wasn't impressed at first untill i upgraded it to spike shower and i love the color of the explosion and the spikes that come out. now i use it more than my nitrome on things that dont resist piercing

Sun, 11/06/2011 - 21:53

Mprime

Ah, the good ol' snarble barb

I fell in love with the snarble barb the moment I got it - one of my first high-end weapons, other than the leviathan blade. Of course, it helps that it randomly picked up three variants when I upgraded it to dark thorn, but even before that I was hooked. Fear me, wolvers!

Mon, 11/07/2011 - 01:07

Sypsy

I've had two of these moments in recent memory.

I made the final flourish to complete my "set" of swords by having one sword of each damage.

Between JK, IMF & FSC, I hardly used it and thought it was "meh".
Then I used it for lockdown and realized how awesome it is.

1st swing w/ the same swing range of a sealed sword but the fastest of the 3-swing swords? Yes please.
Slight knockback from the 1st swing? Awesome.

Heck, my current FSC set up has me bringing in the flourish as my only sword.

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Recently, I dusted off my DA and started using it for solo JK runs. I have max CTR and damage between all my stuff, and wow, the charge clears that boss stratum so quickly. I only use the acheron for JK and to pick off straggling jellies.

How did I not use it for so long? Why do I even have a gran faust? =P

Awesome.

*Disclaimer: I will likely get bored of the above swords and switch to something else in the future. So really, at any given time, the feeling of "this weapon is so awesome" will probably apply come back again for a different weapon I put down.

Tue, 11/08/2011 - 08:43

Draciusen

I was a bit skeptical of the

I was a bit skeptical of the Flourish vs the Cutter, since the Cutter seemed to be exactly the thing I was looking for (Fast, mobile, crapload of hits), but since I hated Wolvers, I chose to get a Flourish.

One word: DANG

In Tier 1, a charged blow + combo afterwards can easily dispatch of Alpha Wolvers without a scratch.
I got so good with the Flourish, people kept going "Wtf" when I killed an entire room of Wolvers without a scratch.

Tue, 11/08/2011 - 09:51

#10

Volebamus

Echoing what Marqui said.

Echoing what Marqui said. Used to use DA and GF for the first month I played, then decided on a guild member's constant suggestion of using Acheron to eventually try it out, and was so impressed by the DPS of it and the elemental brandishes. Since then I have stopped using heavy swords altogether, aside from random times using DA in FSC for "fun" with its charge attack.

When I first made piercing swords, I hated them so much since I didn't really use shield-cancelling so much, but also that the 2nd and 3rd strikes kept missing since I use a WASD control. Then re-discovered Auto-Aim, and now piercing swords are gleeful along with the Brandish lines. I consider it to have the best attack animation due to shield-cancelling the first swing as the alternative combo. It has the reach of heavy swords, yet is even faster than the brandishes.

Tue, 11/08/2011 - 10:47

#11

Bopp

utterly agree

My life story is almost exactly like Volebamus'. Uncanny.

Tue, 11/08/2011 - 19:36

#12

Mistbotone

This actually happened to me

This actually happened to me when I got a sword of every damage type. I have gran Faust, combuster, and dark thorn blade, plus AP for long range. When I finally crafted a weapon of each type, I finally realized how much other players are missing out. Having a specific damage type for a enemy is just about 10 times then having a leviathan blade. When you do high damage against all enemies, you never look back.

Wed, 11/09/2011 - 06:32

#13

Bopp

1.2 times, not 10 times, but okay

Well, to be fair, having a damage bonus from monster vulnerability means about 1.2 times the damage, not 10 times the damage, but I agree with your general sentiment.

Wed, 11/09/2011 - 12:47

#14

Halifix

I've pretty much always been

I've pretty much always been switching swords.
I started with a Rigadoon, but as this was my first sword and my main secondary weapons were bombs, I killed constructs and jellies really slowly.
I liked DVS a lot better because it could damage anything well, and it paired well with the Stagger Storm I was using at the time.
Then I got Gran Faust. The large hit area is amazing, and I started using that more.
Then I got Leviathan. Altho the 3rd hit is a bit inconsistent, it deals more damage to a single target, and the charge attack is a replacement for Gran Faust.

At the moment, the 2 swords I am looking at are Grand Flourish for Snarby and pierce damage, and Sudaruska for Unknown Passage.

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 13:21

#15

Servitor

Fell in love with my Glacius...

My first sword after Proto was a Calibur, but I grabbed a Brandish just to see how it compared. When I crafted it, I got a Damage vs Construct: High. As soon as I turned it into an Iceburst Brandish I never looked back. Now, it's a maxed out Glacius and it eats Constructs like candy!

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 14:02

#16

Bluedigit

For me my two favorite

For me my two favorite weapons have to be the Flourish and the Graviton Bomb.
LOVED both.

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 16:28

#17

Ekita

Happens every time I make a weapon

1st 5 star weapon was The Divine Avenger,And it was the sickest sword me and my friends had ever saw,(I was the 1st of my friends to have a 5 star weapon).Then I made Gran Faust because it looked sick,only then realizing how amazing it was at destroying everything in JK stratum (in which,I was still the only one with a 5 star weapon).
Antigua looked cool,and my friend went Silversix,and it sucked.So I went Blackhawk,and had many joyous runs though other stratums, laughing at my friend's Silversix.
Made the Fiery atomizer because I felt like it,only recently have I noticed it is amazing everywhere....except for fire statums.

After coming back from a really big break from this game,started to craft up the barbarous thorn blade,(I just need the recipe and the energy for it),and I was quite happy with the sword.Decided it was time for me to get a Silversix for Vanaduke.Both Blackhawk and Silversix are waiting for energy to become Sentenza and Argent Peacemaker.

Then I decided I wanted a bomber set,and spamming my fiery Atomizer and Master blast bomb is an experience of many laughs and tears.

I have pretty much concluded that every weapon I want to like,will be liked.

Mon, 11/14/2011 - 16:57

#18

Othertesculpture

I fell in love with the

I fell in love with the Supernova the moment I laid eyes on it. I didn't care if it was awesome but impractical - it was just so beautiful, I had to have it.

I spent hours scraping the crown together to buy a Pulsar at the auction house, then to purchase all the CE I needed to alchemise it.

Then one day, low on health and sick and tired of Devilites tanking my sword swings in order to get a hit in, I retreated and began firing wildly with the Pulsar (it was a Radiant Pulsar by that stage).

The Devilites dodged out of the path of the shots...and were promptly blown up anyway, as the shots reached their maximum range and exploded in mid air.

I blinked, then tried again, deliberately firing in a spread. The same thing happened. I tried again, but by that stage there was no point because there were no Devilites left.

Devilites have never been a problem since.

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