butterfli Wrote: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.
Except neither Spear Fury or Polearm Crusher are ever worth using for their damage.
Spear Fury has a good range and hits fast, but you don't need to max it for that. A hybrid build has room for 30 Spear Crusher, 30 Polearm Fury, 30 Roar, 30 Sacrifice, 20 ER, and 11 Spear Fury, and if you don't like that it's pretty reasonable to drop Sacrifice and just get Spear Fury.
Polearm Crusher is purely for show - it will not outdamage Polearm Fury even on single targets, and you can't make the Normal vs. Slow speed comparison, so it is a fixed ratio - 2 Crushers per 3 Furies.
FYI FA is pretty much garnish on 2nd job. You won't train faster, unless getting it motivates you. It actually reduces damage on the mobs you should be training on, I'd consider skipping it on even a pure weapon Spearman (unless like Polearm Crusher, you just want it for the looks).