Vagrant Story

Anyone able to put it into baby retard terms for me why certain weapons do way less damage. I got a great sword and used it on the ghost enemy but it did hardly any damage. Am i going to have to switch out weapons for every encounter?

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It's been a long while since I played it but weapons have affinities.
I think that if you used a weapon against a specific type of foe the weapon would get better against those foes but worse vs any other enemy. So when you find a weapon that's good vs a certain type of foe it's better to stick to those foes because otherwise you're hindering yourself and making the weapon worse.

I'm probably saying something wrong but just check weapons class and affinity and you'll see they're better for certain enemies and worse for others and that's why they deal less damage.

Dude I haven't played VS in so long but even I can tell you to check weapon effectiveness/enemy effectivness in the menu. You can't just swing shit at ghosts and expect it do damage lol

so if i have a great sword equipped i should avoid enemies that the weapon hasnt got affiniteis to or is it more optimal to switch weapons each encounter?

> Am i going to have to switch out weapons for every encounter?

Yes, you can "level" a weapons strength against certain enemy types though.

Your best bet is to have a handful of weapons that you can switch out against certain enemies.

There are tons of crafting guides for VS, so finding out what to build shouldnt be too hard.

Doesn't this game share the combat system with parasite eve?

Here, read the second post. Guy explains it very well: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/914326-vagrant-story/76408691

I barely remember how the game worked all I recall is that I used to swap weapons a lot to gain strenght vs certain classes. Like I got a great weapon early that had great stats vs dragons and so I saved it for them alone, never used vs anything else.

I kept a weapon for every type of enemy, I think you could level the affinities with the training dummies you find. Also the type of weapon, blunt, piercing or slashing.

>Anyone able to put it into baby retard terms for me why certain weapons do way less damage
All weapons have different stats, here's how they work:
>Damage Type modifier
-Blunt:Maces/Bare Hand/Some crossbow bolts etc.
-Slash:Swords/Axes etc.
-Piercing:Spears, rapiers, some crossbow bolts etc.
Weapons can also have multiple type modifiers, none of these matter one bit, feel free to play around with them, they're pointless because the game's unbalanced as all fuck
>Racial Modifier
Human. Beast. Ghost, Dragon. Undead. Evil etc.
These modifiers do specific damage against a certain family of enemies, e.g. high Undead values means you deal more damage against zombies and all enemies that are classified as undead.
Again, these matter very little because the game is unbalanced as fuck BUT you can notice some minor damage increase with these.
>Elemental Modifiers
Fire, Earth, Water, Wind, Lightning, Light, Dark, and Physical.
THESE ONES ARE THE ONES YOU WANT, basically nothing else is worth pumping up because Elements do 90% of the blunt work in damage calculations, how they work is self explanatory and I shouldn't really need to explain RPG 101 rules here.
Note 1: As long as you keep pumping up a single element you'll eventually bypass elemental resistances and deal a shitton of damage, so essentially, all's good unless you're dumb enough to fight fire with fire.
Note 2: Physical is the best element to pump up since it's universal.
Noter 3: You can use Shaman elemental buffs to pump up your damage even further, do note that since Shaman buffs apply both a bonus and malus in elemental power they're also effectively debuffs when applied to enemies, which leads to even more absurd damage.

Here's how to solve VS's entire weapon mechanic, just pump up elements high enough and you break the game
>Inb4 but the manual and Yea Forums told me to switch weapons
Lolno, just make anything with 80 or so physical and you're set for life.

similiar but not the same