Something I never quite understood...

Axes are not superior to swords, ever. The damage you lose out on due to stabs won't be made up by scrolling, especially since nobody scrolls axes in second job, and they're completely worthless in third.

The trek from 43 to 64 is so short that the 43 maple weapons might as well be worthless as well, with the Rohan existing, and past that you get into the levels where you use Coma. Stabbing with a Coma or a Panic is a no-no, even moreso than usual.

i thought the 'balance' was that for levels <120, you have a great chance of doing a slash or swing rather than stab? since there are two slash animations but only one stab animation, that puts axes in the advantage that 66% of the time, they have a chance of dishing out bigger numbers.

of course brandish screws that up and pure axe and hybrids gets made pointless altogether. this is, as mentioned before, experimental, for fun, unique, be cool, etc. it has no function though. my i/l dropped cold beam and has maxed slow in the second job. slow is useless for i/l. with or without freezing. it just makes my i/l different from others but it really has no function.