Best weapon to get skill for?

[Calculus]

The guy at the gate teaches you a skill based on your currently held weapon.
Now, what weapon do you think is the best to use with him.
Personally i feel like the best are the knuckles because rage boon is just good making early encounters trivial and can work with any weapon.
I'm still disappointed that knuckles doesn't have their own skill though. :/

[Katitoff]

Are you new?
Are you experienced?
Do you have a playstyle on mind?
Do you want to use magic or not?
Do you want to be aggressive or defensive/reactionary?

There is no "IWIN" skill.

And knuckles do have their own skill, prismatic flurry.

[Asmodan]

2hand Axe is imho a good starting Weapon. Has a nice Moveset and can kill the Pearlbirds easy before they run away, so i get the skill for that weapon. I also travel early to the other maps to gather all the skills i want, so its not that essential what i pick from Burac.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

And knuckles do have their own skill, prismatic flurry.

I think they mean that Burac teaches you Enrage instead of a weapon skill with knuckles equipped. It's probably the generally best for new players.

The 1-h axe, 1-h sword and 2-h club ones are also pretty solid imo, the parry ones can be good but not great as a new player.

Worst imo are Polearm (you can't get rage and discipline yet probably), Bow, 1-h mace (elemental infuse? doesn't work on early enemies and is a pretty meh skill anyway)

[Calculus]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

Are you new?
Are you experienced?
Do you have a playstyle on mind?
Do you want to use magic or not?
Do you want to be aggressive or defensive/reactionary?

There is no "IWIN" skill.

And knuckles do have their own skill, prismatic flurry.

Well yes, there is no "i win" skill, but that doesn't make different options better than the others... for example a 1h mace skill, which is clearly worse than many different ones.

[aelfwine]

I personally enjoy halberd / moonswipe early on to go out and loot chersonese.

you can get all the skills out in the world though, so you never miss anything regardless of what you pick.

[Cadeyrn Dragheim]

I think the one for sword, for greathammer and rage is best.
For sword because it's quite good, makes swords compensate for their lower damage, low cooldown, gives pain and also harder to get.
Juggernaut because knocking enemies around is fun + confusion and i like the moveset of the weapon class in general.
Rage because rage is good.

Otherwise moonswipe is an idea, but it gets bonus damage from rage and discipline, which you won't really get too many ways to access at the beginning, so not much point unless you want to buy a lot of potions. Even then I'd rather get rage since the halberd moveset is quite good on it's own and then get more impact.

The rest aren't that worth it/too easy to acquire.

[Aigle1705]

to me its always the 1handed mace, which add the elemental absorbtion skill.

the skill is usually sold in... blue chamber city by the tatooed guy at the blacksmith.
so not hard to get anyways.

there for my 1st weapon usually is the fang club
which is replaced by the brutal club as soon as i do the northern or southern bandit camp.

my reason for that is i like doing the ghost pass early on.
and ghosts do atk with ethaerl dmg which they are weak to.
so you block one of them n can destroy them for 3min without using potions.
if you are in a coop session you can also try the elec lobster or the electric cave in the south east.

[Midas]

Halberd is a very good pick because you can reliably get the Cleaver Halberd in the Montcalm fort very early on, and that will probably be your best weapon until you open some gold chests and find brutal weapons (which will be the same quality anyways, just for different weapon types).

[Calculus]

Originally posted by Midas:

Halberd is a very good pick because you can reliably get the Cleaver Halberd in the Montcalm fort very early on, and that will probably be your best weapon until you open some gold chests and find brutal weapons (which will be the same quality anyways, just for different weapon types).

Yea, it's a good weapon, but the question is about the weapon skill and i don't really find halberd's skill reliable early on. So i would prefer getting rage when planning on using halberd.

[Midas]

Originally posted by Calculus:

Originally posted by Midas:

Halberd is a very good pick because you can reliably get the Cleaver Halberd in the Montcalm fort very early on, and that will probably be your best weapon until you open some gold chests and find brutal weapons (which will be the same quality anyways, just for different weapon types).

Yea, it's a good weapon, but the question is about the weapon skill and i don't really find halberd's skill reliable early on. So i would prefer getting rage when planning on using halberd.

It's just a 360 attack, not sure what's unreliable about it. It's pretty bog-standard as far as skills go. Though its fair that a universal damage buff is going to be more preferable. MOST of the weapon skills probably aren't as overall useful as enrage.

[Quillithe]

Originally posted by Midas:

Originally posted by Calculus:

Yea, it's a good weapon, but the question is about the weapon skill and i don't really find halberd's skill reliable early on. So i would prefer getting rage when planning on using halberd.

It's just a 360 attack, not sure what's unreliable about it. It's pretty bog-standard as far as skills go. Though its fair that a universal damage buff is going to be more preferable. MOST of the weapon skills probably aren't as overall useful as enrage.

Personally early game you don't really want to be fighting a bunch of enemies at once and it doesn't have a damage bonus over just using normal attacks (though it does have an impact bonus). Better than nothing, but not terribly helpful early on.

Some of the other special weapon skills are pretty strong in comparison, like 1h swords get to do double damage and decrease enemy physical resistance. 2h swords have a pretty nice counter attack that does a bunch of impact, etc. Still less good than rage because it's a weapon independent buff, but probably stronger against single target fights if they're giving you trouble.

I thought 1h mace was pretty bad, but that was a neat idea above about how it lets you get through ghost pass really easy (though there are a couple spiritual varnish inside ghost pass anyway, but it still sounds handy).

[Leoscar]

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[phdearman]

If you are able to get the iron key at the start of the game then you can get the rage boon from the gatekeeper and have an easier start