Weapon Tier List (Personal)

[Carmine]

For the fun of it I was looking around and seeing how people were ranking the weapons and noticed a common theme were some of the weapons I liked the most were ranked at the bottom. So I decided to give my perspective and see what others thought.
(Haven't gotten the Halberd from beating the game yet.)
1. Staff - I find it extremely flexible and easy to use. I found at max lvl8 I can break 2 shield quite easily with the most basic attacks. Most seem to try to use it for aerial purposes for some reason. Its a very quick attacker and I absolutely love using it in duels.
2. Twin Pikes - Strong attack, not too slow, Decent overall in movement and has enhanced attacks.
3. Wheels - If used properly can be extremely deadly with its very strong aoes and recovery usages. Battle arts are solid.
4. Sword - Quick, average damage, and decent battle arts. Not amazing but not awful
5. Lance - Interchangeable with 4 and the only reason its 5 instead of 4 is the mobility. Otherwise, very strong attacks, great aoes(charged), solid battle arts although the beginning ones aren't my favorite by any means. Be It gets way stronger and better.
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Here things are all about the same level and in no particular order
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6. Spear - 2nd most used weapon here only because I preferred using it over the sword in the beginning. Honestly, good early game but falls off pretty hard. The combos become less flexible and the battle arts are about average. Average speed. Basically the Staff is just better in all aspects other then flat damage. But the DPS of the staff is just better.
7. Crescent Blade - Great damage, Great aoe, Good Battle arts. JUST SLOWWWWWWWWWWWW, the speed in which this weapon just drives me insane it is better then the Padeo tho.
8. Padeo - Very Slow, Charge is good but slow, Damage is decent but slow......and incase you haven't noticed its very slow.....and well slow
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Just bad
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9. Gauntlets - Has it uses cause its fast and has decent damage. But I dislike the combos, Dislike the Battle arts. Overall just not an interesting weapon for me.

[저지]

Putting the best weapon on position 8 looks like ragebait.

[Shield]

taking into account both how good the weapon is and how much i enjoy using it

S- Halbred, Lance, Sword
A - Fists, Cres. Blade
B - Staff
C - Spear, Twin Pikes
D - Wheels, Spear

[♋ßLUE۫۰۪♋]

My List if anyone is interested:
1. Halberd(Kinda does?)
2. Sword(my weapon since demo and finish the first story)
3. Lance(So satisfying when you max the damage you have recieved from the enemy)
4. Podao
5. SpearGauntlet
6. Gauntlet
7. Wheels
8. Staff
9. Twin pikes

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[Carmine]

Originally posted by 저지:

Putting the best weapon on position 8 looks like ragebait.

Haha I promise it's not rage bait, overall the weapon have there ups and downs.....i just prefer the fast moving type like the staff over the slower ones.

[Blaziruku]

Originally posted by Carmine:

Originally posted by 저지:

Putting the best weapon on position 8 looks like ragebait.

Haha I promise it's not rage bait, overall the weapon have there ups and downs.....i just prefer the fast moving type like the staff over the slower ones.

I've been loving podao and the basic move is a bit slow but charge attacks can be pretty quick with a double dash. It also has the flame ground move which is disgustingly good especially on a shield break and they eat that damage over time.

[Horrible Marksman]

I believe it was serpent stance charge attack that was enough to make me rate the gloves high. I actually like the weapon in general but that area + black hole effect is one of my favorite attacks in the game. Very quick to come out too or instant if you have the charge.

Twin pikes have been growing on me and probably caught up with wheels in second place for me. I love them in duels since they basically let you fully charge the duel bar without the enemy being able to fight back.

Gloves are still my favorite though.

I like Podao but I haven’t gotten a reduced charge affix for them yet. I think that will likely increase my fondness for them a fair bit.

[Shin]

Nothing beats the absolute aura farming walk your character does when going into Rage with Halberd.

[Metko]

Don't know about endgame (im at the beginning of chap 3) but the Podao is extremly strong, Sea Of Flames arts just melts shield, If i want to kill officers fast id choose Podao as nr. 1

[awanderingswordsman]

1. Halberd (and it's not close) - The ONLY weak part of this weapon is that it can't take too many shields with basic attacks. You are getting like 1.75 to 2.5 in an opening. Maybe theres some better strat to get more but full charged standing attack into dash seems optimal. If you have the time for guard charge thats more but they don't stay vulnerable long enough unless parried/special art canceled. The arts this thing has though are insane. Valiant steed blitz is just stupid powerful. MASSIVE AoE, MASSIVE damage, MASSIVE wushu damage. Even on ultimate warrior it oneshots every duel. That move is insane. In addition to all of that brokeness it has timeslow AND guaranteed knockup (the enemy doesn't have to be vulnerable). The only bad art I've found is hellraiser which feels pretty weak for it's slow animation and mediocre damage. Everything else is best in class. Also a ton of it's arts jump you in the air which just goes over most attacks so you can spam this stuff even while officers are mid combo (or several officers) and usually be fine.
2. Podao - it's basic attack combo is fine, it's charge attacks are gimmicky and not really worth using a lot of time, but it's battle arts are amazing and at end game it's all about battle art spam. Even before end game, sea of flames is just amazing and sharp fang fury is the best cost to wushu damage ratio I've found outside of halberd doing what seems to be about 3.75 shields of damage for 5 cost. In an opening just do 5 basic hits into sharp fang fury and almost everything is broken from full (over 5 shields of damage) and it's got good AoE.
3. Sword - This weapon would just be pretty good but sacred bird cry is very powerful and worth spamming. Time slow and big damage and big aoe. After it gets its rank 7 moveset upgrades it does great damage and wushu damage with it's basic attacks. Early game it also has pretty good peon clearing with jump heavy spam.

Everything else feels about on par. Crescent blade might be 4th. It's got pretty great damage and AoE. I also just haven't explored it as much as a lot of the other weapons. Lance feels like maybe the weakest just because it's gimmick gets you quickly murdered on ultimate warrior. If you have the tankiness though it's charge moves do great damage.

[Vulnresati]

By far my least favorite weapon is Padoa. I hate this Stop and Slash gameplay style this game wants to force on my, I hate charge attacks, just let me combo into finishers. Twin Pikes is my favorite because I'm not asked to stop attacking.

[Gamer de esquerda]

For clearing mobs and soldiers
S+ - Halberd
S - Lance, Staff, Twin Pikes
A - Crescent Blade, Sword, Spear, Podao
Bad - Wheels and Gauntlets

For fighting enemy officers
S - Halberd, Podao
A - Rest
Bad - Wheels and Gauntlets

Wheels and gauntlets are really the only weapons I actually dislike. I only use them to level up, but if my weapons of choice will always be the Halberd, or the Podao if I have to kill an enemy officer quickly or a powerful enemy officer

The others aren't bad, they just can't hold a candle to Halberd, no wonder it's the last weapon you get

[Doomvora]

Wheels and Halberd are honestly my favorite and I feel like they're both goated.

[LordZestyShart]

Im not going to add the Haliberd because we know its the dog walking weapon everyone gets.

Im doing mine in tiers as well do to weapons being used the same way or for similar purposes
1. Lance, Cresc., pikes
Once you get use to the combos, dodging, and using battle arts fast, this is an amazing. The added benefit of having the best charge attacks in my opinion keeps it up. Only downside is the lack of variation in combo.
He Crescent blade is similar to the lance but its range is wicked and the power attacks flow in with combos so there is no delay. Downside is the weapon is slow.
The pikes are the best early game weapon overall in my opinion. Range, speed, varied combos, cool arts. The downside one being preference. Some people find them unrealistic and I can understand that.

2. Podao, Wheels, Staff
Tbh, I loved the Podao but it was kept more so for 1v1 or specific missions. It was my favorite before the lance and I switched between that and the pikes. On top of that it had a great SP art that worked its magic fast.

The wheels were fast, had exhilarating combos and solid range. The strong throws tho always had you waiting and did not become adept at using them.

The staff was just another fun combo weapon with an infinite spam characteristic. Downside was it seemed weak.

3. Sword, Spear, Gauntlets

The sword and spear were ok but mostly because they were early game weapons and eventually had cooler variations of themselves. The Gauntlets were cool but a lack of range and variation in combo and arts keeps it at last for me.

[thorin.hannahs]

I went with sword until I got it to 8 then I started swinging other stuff. I really like the Lance even if the play style can be "off" since your best stuff comes out from tanking hits.

Wheel, Padao and Twin Pikes are all very powerful. Wheel seems nutty once you learn the moves and are willing to weave in towards your blades to trigger the spin of death. Padao has the Hanzo special - cone of fire except it is very cheesy in this game. Twin Pikes just pop something up and kill it.

I want gauntlets to be good but it is going to take some practice to make them work and spear is just meh along with stick.

Halberd is going to be the most versatile and powerful which is obvious and Crescent Blade isn't bad just slow and methodical.