Chain Sawd or Red Sword

[zeru]

I've got a Red Sword and was wandering if the Chain Sawd was better, cause if not I'll just save myself time and stop looking for one.

[Crisis]

The red sword is stronger but its attack stregth varies. It still is better than the chain sawd though.

[Ryna]

This topic has come up a lot lately. If you try Forum Search, you will come across the following topics that discuss this comparison indepth:

http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=78021&forum=7
http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=97050&forum=7
http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=59503&forum=7

To Summarize:

Chain Sawd has unreduced gush special and does consistent damage. Red Sword has paralysis and a large variable ATP range. Some people like the variable ATP, others loathe it greatly. It just depends on your playing style.



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Ryna on 2005-05-19 19:09 ]</font>

[Jive18]

Ryna's right, this topic is so overdone http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif. I still like Red Sword because of its variable ATP, and it's special is more useful to me than Sawd's, because I have resta (HUmar).

[Genoa]

Last thing,
Chain Sawd is preferably for HUcast and HUcaseal because of it's Gush. And because it hits multiple targets, you can (most of the time) recover all of your HP within a 3 hit combo (sometimes even one hit depending on how many targets are in range)
Red Sword... is stronger, but ranges greatly, which can through off your killing combo #... (in other words, you know when you figure out how many hits or # of combos it takes to kill a certain enemy, well because Red Sword's damage varies so much, a Gulgus might take you 3 hits with a weapon, but Red Sword might kill it in 3 hits some times, or 4 hits on other times, and alot of people don't like that.)