Weapon choices for each class?

[Kaybe]

Hi folks,

Each class (Mage, Warrior, Ranger) has a variety of different weapon choices, notably three main ones plus a smattering of extras like skulls and sabers. But why choose certain weapon types?

On Warrior, it seems fairly straight forward. Swords are very fast and can deal with mobs at short range. Axes are slower but hit like trucks due increased crit chance and crit damage. Hammers have range and defensive bonuses.

But Mage is where I'm confused. I cannot for the life of me see a reason to use anything but wands. They fire fast, have high crit chance, good all round. But staves and scythes elude me. I tried staves and they fire very slow, seem to miss a lot, and generally do a great deal less damage over time than wands. Scythes ... are melee weapons on a squishy class. On top of that, because some of the damage they do is melee damage, they don't take as much advantage of INT since INT only boosts elemental damage.

So as a mage, why use staves or scythes at all? Also, I haven't tried Ranger yet, so I'm not familiar with the pros and cons of each weapon type, so feel free to add your thoughts on those if you'd like.

[Nyanto]

I'm kinda surprised this has not gotten a reply yet. I too would like to know the answer, but i can throw some input onto the Ranger class.


A bow has medium attack speed. Increesed Critical Damage and Critical Chance.
A Crossbow has slow attack speed. Elemental damage, and a tiny tiny tiny aoe where if things are grouped up you MIGHT hit all of them.
A Slingshot, Fast attack speed. gain bonus HP/s

[Azirahael]

Staves have impact and blast radius.

They are good for mobs.
However, mobs hardly ever occur, and homing bolts from your wand are generally better.
Wand. FTW.

[Percolator33]

For warrior, a BIG axe ! You can kill most of monsters with one or two shot if enough +crit/+crit dommages.