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[quote="RAVENSOUL"]I’m just looking for your honest, brutal reason as to why you hunt, level, farm with your weapon of choice. Which brings you the most fun, pros and cons of your chosen weapon. Look forward to hearing from all.[/quote]

[quote="AQUARIUS"]Mage but it's a shame no 4th spell so we can pvp[/quote]

[quote="TYRESE"]Spear, imo it’s the best weap ingame with two very good aura’s. So 5th aura, I can stay at mags without needing pots for hours on end. Same with vafers, I can hunt them without pots and it’s only dura which I need to stop the hunt for. Another brilliant addition which is relatively new, ToV. So I can go round after round without a single pot unless it’s dirty mage mobs or bosses. 2nd aura, it’s the lowest cool down of aura’s on soma I believe. It’s only slightly less dmg than a normal hit. The amount of Bertha and nega kills I’ve had using 2nd spear is crazy. Range 2, so if you get side tracked and are late to a boss, no drama you can simply hit from an outside space. It’s also the highest damage weapon class in soma, apart from valour tier I think, I can’t remember properly but I think I calculated axe was finally higher, but I could be wrong. The only draw backs for me personally, is that for 2nd and 5th aura to work you have to be at certain angles from a mob when you stood at range 2. So sometimes the spots left are the ones you can’t use an aura. But yeah, overall I love spear and it’s aura’s.[/quote]

[quote="ACTAEON"]Agree with tyrese on spear. Good fun to level with and hugely useful for TOV, I could get to last boss with only using about 40 pots. Went from always making a loss at vafer to being able to hunt almost continously using 5th. [/quote]

[quote="HURIBOKO"]Only need 5th when HP is low so can still be using 5th and 2nd if you don't get swarmed that is was even worse before though for Spear as all but 2nd was range 1 makes it massively useful for GVW instead of just Bow[/quote]

[quote="FOXTRCK"]Honestly, Spear was the worst weapon to level with on slower / E-Soma rates. I've probably written a dozen topics or posts for 'why' back then and in recent years but with a faster pace of levelling, it is nice. It just needs balancing vs any weapon that uses shield. (Arguably knuckle/bow has dex which has too much potency). I played it to be different, a minority but it was a awful price to pay. Shields now have obscene defence at higher tiers and 1handers (bwa iirc) had manually upped attacks once or twice, for some reason. Anyway, I'll stop going chapter and verse. Knuckle is my second choice, just good pace of levelling, whatever the rate is, perfect PvE levelling and all auras are useful. I never liked Bow, the reliance on SRs were a big turn off for me and I never enjoyed the idea of "single-mindedly" crafting for that. However, if you asked me should they remove the dura drain on missed shots - no, its a price to pay for range. Too small a price in recent years.[/quote]

[quote="RAVENSOUL"]Thank you to all for your feedback, very interesting reading your replies and experience especially for spear. I also thought back on esoma players like Freddie, Champ and yourself Mr Fox what drew you to spear. At least with 1 handed axe, sword you could use shields for extra df, accuracy or evasion etc, bow and knuckle had dodge, distance, speed. I was never drawn to trying knuckle, I think this stems to punching for con back on esoma, so boring and slow and would just feel like doing con but wearing a knuckle. Thanks again all.[/quote]

[quote="HURIBOKO"] Sword for me Personally, I know 5th sword is a shadow of it's former self. 1st and 2nd have Improved a bunch it's actually a viable Aura to be hunting with. Always knew sword was going to be my weapon of choice since I saw the Dragon Slayer Sword back in 02 or something. My love got worse when I saw KAA (E–soma) Surrounded by Devils at WotW tanking and dropping shit loads of them also [/quote]

[quote="HURIBOKO"]Needs Changing back does 5th sword should have a lot more fans than it does!! Did 150% Damage based on your Attack to 1 opponent And 125% Damage to 2-3 Opponents iirc. I think 3rd needs changing slightly, maybe reduce its cool down by a Third or something it's good for PvE as we get stats hitting multiple targets now and it is a lot cheaper cost to use it than 5th sword 50 Stamina is a high price to pay to use and I think it is a shame auras go obsolete 3rd goes out the window for 5th all Melee all the time but they should have something about them to make them useful still. Sorry I forget 3rd Trace is better than 5th Trace Does anyone agree with me on that!?!! 🤔[/quote]