Big Swords

[ConchoEboy]

Anything like the greatswords from the dark souls seriies or the Bommer sword from FF7?

[Lego Yoda (goth)]

yes. you have to unlock a certain class that can use them.

i haven't played it very much, but i think there are better classes. you can definitely make it work though.

[ConchoEboy]

Originally posted by Otterside:

yes. you have to unlock a certain class that can use them.

i haven't played it very much, but i think there are better classes. you can definitely make it work though.

like Im talking huge swords though

[Lego Yoda (goth)]

http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Longswords

yea, the biggest i've seen is like the zweihander from dark souls. i haven't seen any quite as fat as the buster tho

[Huggles the Cat]

Once you or your pawn are level 10, you unlock access to both Advanced and Hybrid vocations. The hybrid vocations are exclusive to the arisen but the vocation you want is an Advanced one called Warrior and is the only vocation in the game that can use greatswords and warrhammers.

They aren't easily made amazing as pawns since a pawn with low or moderate bestiary knowledge won't know when to use it's charge skills (the majority of it's skills are charge based) and will often miss fast things like woves and goblins. But a well knowledgable warrior pawn (or if you're playing it yourself) will be able to use a mix of their faster (instant) skills and save those massive damage charge skills for large bosses and monsters that have fallen over or are pinned to the ground/wall.

If you're looking for a technique to use for the warrior, i'd recomend Escape Slash, which upgrades into Exodus Slash. It's a fast back-step with good i-frames and lots of damage from a multi-hit combo that has massive knock-down ability. This is the only way to be defensive with the warrior since the class has no way to block or evade attacks with a skill like the evade role for dagger users (something that really helps this game feel more souls like when fighting in BBI).

One down side to the warrior is they are restricted to equiping only 3 weapon skills instead of 6 (like the mage who also only has one weapon). The reason for this is they only have 6 or 7 skills in total and it would be very boring to have everything useful equiped instead of having to weigh your options in limited slots. They probably could have made more skills though, such as being the first game to actually use "Half Swording" techniques and give the warrior more agile abilities with that.

(Half Swording is a greatsword technique in which the top hand is grasping the lower portion of the blade so as to allow more manuverability and better defense with certain counter manuvers made open for use because of the way you deflect while half swording. The Zweihander is most easily identified for use of this in Dark Souls by it's blunt section just above the hilt, with the blunt section ending where two short spikes jut out from the lower portion of the blade [which is where the actual sharp portion of the blade historicly begins on a sword like that]. Even if a blade didn't have a blunted section like that, halfswording is still viable since most sword fighters will be wearing gloves which will prevent cuts from grabing the blade. Even when bare handed, the lowest part of the blade is normally very dule and you could still use the technique that way.)

[Huggles the Cat]

Originally posted by Otterside:

http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Longswords

yea, the biggest i've seen is like the zweihander from dark souls. i haven't seen any quite as fat as the buster tho

Dwells in Light and Gryphic Victory come close to the buster sword. Considering the console release of the game have Berserk armor and weapons based off of Guts and Grifith, it would have been hillarious and awesome so see a buster sword and FF inspired armor in this version. Someone could potentialy made a mod for it that replaced weapons and armor already in the game. Here's hoping that happens.

Here's some good lokking warriors.
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonsdogma/images/5/5b/Barbarian-012.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20151016173428
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonsdogma/images/9/95/Warrior.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140909011717

[Lego Yoda (goth)]

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120923001914/dragonsdogma/images/e/ea/Dragon's_Bite.png

[Huggles the Cat]

Originally posted by Otterside:

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120923001914/dragonsdogma/images/e/ea/Dragon's_Bite.png

That's the sword you get for beating the dragon as a warrior.

[Dauntless]

Saving Grace is probably the closest to the buster sword.

[NambaWan]

I like the Dwells-in-Light and Gryphic Gold myself. Someone made a mod replacing the model for Bitter End with the Saving Grace's but kept the whole sinister red-and-black color scheme.