[GMST] [0.99] Chaos

Last I checked, Spears used to be the Dark Knight weapon of choice in 4th Job. Of course, both my previous statement and your original statement are entirely irrelevant.
Not sure what that last bit is supposed to insinuate, but I'll just take it as the moronic statement is.

Limiting the weapons a class can use makes for easier balance. That's simple fact.

it also leads to less options. and here, i'll break it for ya:

spears used to be the "endgame" because the place to train was either bosses (sacrifice sucked there, fury even more) meaning that due to the stab extra damage, you would require a spear for optimal DPS.

or mobs, which rarely ever came in groups of more than three, making buster, again, optimal DPS for training not to mention, back then fury was pretty meh, while buster was incredible better in groups of 3 or less.

what was the best weapon for a DrK back then? a sky ski, for the ones that didn't go the "hybrid way" and stayed as polearm drk's, it was the purple surfboard, which wasn't as inflated until arans came along (because again, hybrid >>>) and then the arcglaive, stab multiplier and speed is what we cared about back then.

now, let's look at the trend after BB, fast five polearms: level 140, level 130, level 95, irrelevant ones, and let's look at fast 5 spears: level 43 impaler

that means that if we lost our ability to use polearms, we would lose one whole speed level, which would be where my comment of "use blunts only if you want" because it would be the same as a pally losing it's ability of using fast4/5 swords, since all BW's are normal speed. so it's no moronic statement, at least no more than yours

heck, if i lost polearms and you lost swords, you'd still be able to go for the level 140 fast 5 weapon, i would be stuck with a sky ski, or a level 140 slow weapon, not cool man, not cool.

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@joe: not really because of that, but mostly because speed for a dark knight is almost everything but if we used a polearm with buster (which was the best DPS at it's time) the speed would not beat the amount of damage lost due to stabbing with a polearm, a sky ski was both speedy enough, and a spear, meaning bonus damage.

this is why everyone jumped to the arcglaive as soon as BB hit, same speed, more w.attk