Help FFXIII: Weapon Questions

[PureScorpio]

What's the use of having weapons that reduce your physical or magic damage, or one that stops you from staggering an enemy??

 

[ANGRYWOLF]

The staggering makes it muich easier to beat an enemy.

So I prefer those.

It just seems to me the game designers wanted players to have a choice of weapons.

 

[Shaissa]

Well To be honest... I just stuck with the first weapons your given and leveled them up...seemed easy enough to me...

 

[Rey]

The weapons with no stagger powers usually do more physical damage. So if you get an enemy staggered with your 2 other characters you can hit for a lot of damage with your main character's weapon. For instance Fang's Venus Gospel becomes Kain's lance with no stagger power but a lot of physical attack. So it is useful.

 

[Clerkin]

Most of the weapons have their strong points and their weak points but usually the weapons in the game that are strong in magic are weak in strength and the other way about, but yeah some of the weapons extra abilities were a bit annoying like the Stagger Lock but you got great abilities from others like improved cure. The weapons had one other ability if you got the right accessories with the weapon you got a synthesis group ability which improved one thing I think the Gestalt was what got improved if you had a weapon with stagger lock so you needed Gestalt accessories to activate the ability. Overall the weapons in that game were very bad, you only get to select from a few weapons and then try and level them up, they could have just added stronger weapons and got rid of the level up system