"READ THE 1ST PARAGRAPH THOROUGLY BEFORE PROCEEDING TO THE REST OF THE POST".
Please don't take this, the wrong way, this post is not intended to tell you how to play the game, is more towards an opinion of what is expected of Warriors in a party and what subjobs are best, depending on situation (Tanking or Damage Dealing), Weapons that work best and why, since I've been getting into some parties that make me want to leave on the spot.
-Warriors best subs are :
Tanks lvl 1-30 :
a)Mnk No question about it, if you are tanking, nice increase in hp and boost ability, definitely a plus.
b) Paladin, there's a significant gap in hp compared to subbing Mnk, and the Mp you get is not worth it.
c) Nin, could use it as both Tank or DD sub.
for Utsusemi, but personally not my style. (it might become quite expensive)
d) Sam, very nice addition indeed, but is mostly good for later lvls as per skills and job abilities.
Damage Dealing lvl 1-30
I'm not gonna post much on this since usually we are not invited to parties for DD, but to tank, but there are a few considerations as to what you might use. take into account that the order in which they are posted was influenced on how they came to mind, the choice is yours.
a) Thf, very good damage stats.
b) Drk, nice dmg input as well.
c) Nin, could use it as both Tank or DD sub.
d) Sam, same as Nin above.
e) Rng, good for dmg, but is specially sub for farming.
Now for some of the advanced jobs usually most players at lvl 30 are getting their advanced job quests or are lvlng them and there come the issue of what you will do with your warrior.
Never to sub these jobs:
a) Whm, if you asked me why, I'll gladly answer if you are new to the game or you are not a warrior, or either you are a Ghetto Paladin.
b) Rdm, I can't understand that choice.
c) Blm, .....................does Drk mean anything to you.
d) Brd, I still haven't seen this combo, and I hope not to see it.
e) Smn, same reasons as above.
f) Bst, I don't have anything to add to this class. this is usually a solo class.
Leave these subs for when you feel like soloing or farming, PLEASE DON'T BRING THEM TO YOUR PARTY.
Also very important, is to have whichever job you decided to sub lvlvd equitatively to your main (1/2 of your main), it will increases your change to get into parties.
-Warrior Weapons
There is a vast array of weapons to choose to go along with the warrior class ( you named it chances are that a warr might equip it, with the exception of Katanas, Great Katanas, Shuriken etc).
But where a warrior truly exceeds is in the use of Great Axe followed by an Axe/Shield combo, anything else lower our perfomance drastically; it's ok to lvl as many weapons as there might be might be available in-game, but that's as far as it goes, do not make a sword/shield combo your main, (that's for Paladins or a Great Sword for that matter "JUST CAUSE SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT IT LOOKS COOL", I used to think like that by I saw the error of my way so I changed).
I'm not even gonna address the use of scythe, if you really wanna help your party, go ahead and get yourself an Axe/shield combo or a Great Axe as your main way of dealing Damage, the rest is consequential.
But, just like I stated in the beggining, this is just my opinion of what a warrior should be and be able to to with what is given to us.
Peace to everyone that appreciate the fact that I took the time to do this post based on information collected while playing the game and advice from the Warrior Forum here, and a little piece of advice to those that are gonna flame me : either do something better than I did or hold your opinions until you do so.
Here is one of my profiles, currently lvlng Paladin
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?51146
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?19489 WARRIOR PROFILE
I also carry around all the time a Huge Moth Axe (GA), Tiger Stole and Swordbelt plus 2 Vit Rings.
Edited, Wed Sep 15 16:34:46 2004 by RVASQ