Weapon types

[Koroto]

Still goofing off near the beginning of the game, but I am wondering if other weapons are worth using, or does it just make swords the best weapon type in the game.

[Wonder]

Fist is great for dueling with the stats shredding, the regular immunity, the combo potential and the single target BURST moves like Eight Trigrams of Roving Tiger. It also gets some AoE near the end but it’s not really the point. I love it on the main character because nothing is better against bosses.

IF and IF only I ever play a full solo run, I would use Sword against mobs and fists against bosses.

The other three weapons are disadvantaged because they have much less moves, which means the max mastery is much lower that swords and fists.

Staffs + conception are good vs armies, but the fights where they would shine are too rare and too easy for staves to ever shine. They seem to rely on getting hit and accumulating stacks as you get hit. They seem like they were hot designed for the game.

[dragnier1]

It depends on how you play, my staff playstyle was to deny targets the ability to act, worked really well against Fulongzi, Xuan Li and Mowen.
Personally I think saber and polearm shines best against groups, sabers work best hitting them from outside and polearms when surrounded.

[astthar.alex]

wow realy you guys think fist suck? have u ever go to mingjian manor at sword tournment already on invencible level with fists, i beat everyone there , the lord of the manor my shifu, and everyone else i got all the stuff and skills i could witha simple combination normal move (air spliting palm),
special move (iron palm strike),might move (great vajrapani fist), prajna vajraprani palm as unique move and golden bell cocoon as cultivation , just turn auto on and let him beat anyone while almost the time he is invincible state...just try

[Huillam]

I wondered too if Fists have been buffed since those messages as I've never had any problem with them. I'm on my way to the manor and I've been able to empty the inventory of absolutly every single NPCs I met (I've reached Supreme level by now).
The only two tricky ones were:
Liu Xion (leader of Liushan School): It has a move that can block one attack and I missed the fact that it only lasts for one turn. Had I taken advange of my higher mobility he would most likely have been a breeze.
Yuan Jue (leader of Shaolin Temple): He's just straight good. But that means I can't lose if I start the fight at full health and it's a 50/50 if I'm trying to fight him multiple times in a row.

The main weakness of fists are their lack of area of effect attacks which are only available (at least so far) for Mighty/Unique moves but that's what you can expect from their description: excellent against a single target but not designed to deal with groups.

[Jamdeeznutz]

I used fist only. I really enjoy the shaolin skills and cultivations that give me a shield.