EOIII Rantage!

[Wolkenritter]

[Twat]

I will be grabbing Berserker's Vow and Charge, but Pincushion is really not viable until a bit late in the game unless you have a Dark Ether tool. I mean, Buccaneers are okay damage dealers. Though if I want them to really start hurting I find they need to be Gladiator/Buccaneers instead of the other way around.

[Wolkenritter]

[scy]

Hanging 10 - 250% Damage @ 17 TP
Pincushion 4 - 242% Damage + 6%/AGI @ 26 TP [Average damage dealt]

So it's 9 TP to basically deal 6*(AGI-1)% more damage. At ~24 AGI, that makes Pincushion 4 the same TP-to-Damage ratio, roughly, and every point of AGI is just that much better.

[Kimiko]

I still find it regrettable that Pirates can't wield a gun and a rapier at the same time.

[Yoonah]

[PLA]

Hmm. Yeah, female portraits would work better with that. Males would work better with that than with only gun.

Shogun/Buccaneer could do it, I guess. But still only one kind of weapon skill, I think.

[Doktor_Q]

Shogun/Buccaneer can use a rapier and a gun at the same time, and by that token use skill for both.

Not a whole lot of reason to do so, but hey, if you feel like doing that.

[PLA]

Ah, I thought skills only counted one of the slots. :3

[scy]

Skills will check either weapon but it will always use the main-hand weapon to determine damage dealt.

[PLA]

Ahh. Then gun+rapier could be made to work, but there's still not much incitament.

[Doktor_Q]

By abusing that double skill check thing, you can make a shogun/monk do fist skills with a Katana. It's pretty fun.

[PLA]

Yeah, I've read about that but haven't tried it! :3 Any sort of weapon skill ought to work with that.
But for fist skills, just leaving the first armour slot empty works without Second Sword, no?

[scy]

[Doktor_Q]

Or I guess you could do that with an Arbalist/Monk. Lose the back row damage penalty, gain the bonuses from Giant Kill. Combine it with some like Counter, and you can do some crazy amounts of damage.