Posted by Ponderer(VIP) on November 15, 1999 at 06:02:40:
In Reply to: Nope. From what I understand, practice weapon is just another weapon-type. Does not give you better practice abilities (n/t) posted by Leorinth on November 14, 1999 at 23:11:56:
It used to be that they REALLY helped you learn your weapons, 5 minutes and you'd be moving onto the next one, 5 minutes laters the next one, and so on. Nowadays though they've really been downgraded, but I still think they have a positive impact, if not for anything else than as a good first weapon damage-wise(that is if you can't find anything laying on the ground somewhere). Since I usually just rank to 20th rank or so alone, I use practice weapons for the first 20 ranks. They do fair damage and are supposed to help you learn your stuff quicker. If I were to say, have an arial that just wanted to go fight a horde of birds I'd use weapons bought at the weaponsmith in Galadon, simply because they do less damage and therefore you can fight the same horde longer. To summarize, no practice weapons aren't worthless, though they used to be a lot better.