whats up with replica's

[fenrir188]

are they just inferior to thir originals or are they used for something?

[Infinite Eternity]

More Atp but a lot less pp.

[Waki Miko Syamemaru!]

Melee Replicas are useful. Gun and wand/rod/TECH replicas are trash since it relies heavily on PP. The increased ATP really isn't that useful when you have to use a Photon Orb every 10 seconds.

[Echelon]

Like Sya said, any replica except melee types sucks. The melee ones are pretty godamned useful, but 3 rules to them.

1. Grind if you need to. If I'm not wrong, they gain a substantial amount of PP with grinding.

2. Learn the perfect timing for the weaps. If you don't, you could find yourself using photon charges pretty fast.
Perfect timing increases damage and recharges PP.

3. Don't spam photon arts. Use only when you need too.

[panzer_unit]

Forces and Gunners are stuck using replica weapons a lot in New Game+ multiplayer. It's that or 1* weapons from the shop, pretty much.
Boy does it ever feel good to find some kind of ranged or casting weapon with respectable PP capacity after a couple runs of using nothing but knock-offs and melee attacks.