2008-07-22, 02:46 AM
When you train in a spot, you shouldn't be switching weapons. It's a waste of time which slower down your training. If you're gonna go hybrid, different places calls for different weapons--that's all.
pole arm places : wolf spiders, himes, gobies
spear places : everywhere else
The "downside" to hybrid if that you can't use the secondary attacks of the weapon (spear fury and pole arm crusher). Like in your scenario: if you're holding a spear and gathered a huge mob of himes, you can kill them with spear crusher but you kill them slower. Similarly, if you're holding a pole arm and there's only 1-2 monsters around you; you can still kill, it's just slower. That's just the annoying thing about playing a hybrid from my experience. If you go pure spear, you can easily switch from spear crusher to spear fury.
pole arm places : wolf spiders, himes, gobies
spear places : everywhere else
The "downside" to hybrid if that you can't use the secondary attacks of the weapon (spear fury and pole arm crusher). Like in your scenario: if you're holding a spear and gathered a huge mob of himes, you can kill them with spear crusher but you kill them slower. Similarly, if you're holding a pole arm and there's only 1-2 monsters around you; you can still kill, it's just slower. That's just the annoying thing about playing a hybrid from my experience. If you go pure spear, you can easily switch from spear crusher to spear fury.