The Hero should be using either Unbridled Blade or Sword Dance, both hit hard but Sword Dance is less MP along with each hit being able to perform a Critical Hit. Jade should be using Multifeet at this point, if you can buff her with Re-Vamp or Oomphle she’ll be even more deadly. Finally, Sylvando, Serena or Rab should be on constant healing. Unbridled Blade is dealing 290% to 310% your normal Attack damage, Sword Dance is 4 hits of 75%. Multifeet for Jade is 7 hits of 50%. These moves are exactly as good as that% of your normal attack damage would be, meaning you want Oomphle and Sap to spike the damage up. Another potential downside is that Sword Dance is a group-target attack with random hit assignment, whereas Unbridled Blade is single-target. Once you learn Sword Dance, the only reason you would. An Unbridled Blade buffed with Oomphle should be able to deal with the Gyldenbritches that are summoned. Following the battle, Erik will rush to his sister’s aid and prevent her from losing control, breaking the necklace in the process.

This Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide will teach you everything you need to know about the pros and cons for all the different weapon types for each character in Dragon Quest 11 so you can plan where to best focus your skill points.

If you’re playing Dragon Quest 11, you know that it’s best to decide which weapons you want to use on each character because you have to lock in skill points in order to power them up, and it’s better to focus on one weapon type than to spread the points around.

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So, you’re probably going to want to type to figure out which weapons you want to be using ahead of time. This Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide will help.

Hero – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Sword and Shield

Dual Wield

Greatswords

Erik – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Daggers

Swords

Boomerangs

Veronica – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Heavy Wands

Whips

Serena – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Wands

Spears

Sylvando – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Sword and Shield

Dagger and Shield

Whips

Jade – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Spears

Claws

Rab – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Heavy Wands

Claws

Hendrik – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Swords

Axes

Greatswords

Hero – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

The Hero in Dragon Quest 11 gets three weapon styles to choose from when it comes to Dragon Quest 11 best weapon type options. He can use Swords or Greatswords, but in terms of Swords he can opt to either dual wield or not.

Generally Greatswords are considered to be the better DPS option for most of the game, but Swords can certainly hold their own, especially on normal difficulty. Once swords get access to Falcon Slash, Dual Wield and Gigaslash, they begin to catch up to Greatswords and stay about 90% as powerful for the rest of the game.

Sword and Shield

Sword and Shield tends to be a caster build until late game. You focus on Kazap and healing skills.

Pros

High Defense
Can Parry and Block many attacks
Hero can focus on spellcasting
Can equip Erdwin’s Shield for additional MP regen

Cons

60-70% as much damage as Greatswords
Stuck with Flame Slash for a long time

Dual Wield

Dual Wield is very strong and certainly viable, although you won’t unlock Dual Wielding until near the end of act 1.

Pros

Gigaslash hits all enemies
Surpasses Greatswords at a few points in the game i.e. when you first get 2x Falcon Blades
Damage is comparable to Greatswords

Cons

Stuck with Sword and Shield for most of the first act
Damage starts out much worse than Greatswords and gets closer, but never quite catches up
No single target skills compare to Unbridled Blade on Greatswords until you unlock Sword Dance (extremely late game)

Greatswords

There are very few cons to Greatswords. They’re generally considered to be the Hero’s Dragon Quest 11 best weapon type. They start out powerful and remain powerful throughout the entire game. The only real downside is they get their most damaging skills early, and you’ll be watching those 2 skills for the entire 60+ hours of the game with few exception.

Pros

Maximum damage
Powerful Greatswords are often available early (i.e. Platinum Powersword from Puerto Valor Casino)
Unbridled Blade outdamages all single-target Sword skills and is acquired early on

Cons

Lacks variety. You’ll use Unbridled Blade and Helichopter every fight for the entire game.

What is the best weapon type for the Hero in Dragon Quest 11?

Erik – Dragon Quest 11 Best Weapon Type Guide

Erik’s weapon options in terms of Dragon Quest 11 best weapon type are between Swords, Daggers, and Boomerangs.

Generally, Daggers are considered to be Erik’s best option. No matter what, you’re going to want to invest points into Daggers in order to pick up the Dual Wield skill. You’re also going to want to put points into his Guile tree to unlock the Divide skill. That takes up Erik’s skill points for most of the game.

His dagger-based status effect finishes are his most damaging skills and they’re easy to set up, especially if you’re using Dagger Sylvando or Axe Hendrik. Swords do less damage overall, but are less situational.

Daggers

Daggers hit about 90-95% as hard as swords for standard attacks, but their skills are much more useful. They can apply sleep and poison, and once status effects are applied, they can unleash a finishing attack that does extreme damage.

If you’re using Sylvando or Hendrik in your party, they can apply status effects that Erik can take advantage of, allowing him to use finishing attacks every turn.

Pros

Persecutter and Victimiser do insane amounts of damage from start to finish
Unlocks the Dual Wield skill
Daggers often come with on-hit effects
Highest damage potential
Required for Dually Deadly

Cons

Combo finishers require setup
Normal attacks are about 5% weaker than with swords

Swords

Swords hit a little bit harder than Daggers for standard attacks, but their abilities are significantly weaker and less useful until you acquire Fatal Flash, which you get extremely late. Even then, Persecutter/Victimiser will outdamage Fatal Flash.

Still, you have to put a lot of points into Swords late-game even if you’re using Daggers, because Swords are needed to unlock Dually Deadly. Swords are mostly for using Fatal Flash if you have Divide up but the enemy has no status effect applied.

Pros

Normal attacks are stronger than with Daggers
Fatal Flash does good damage without setup
Required for Dually Deadly

Cons

Fatal Flash is acquired extremely late
Most sword skills are weak and situational at best

Boomerangs

Boomerangs are really good for clearing crowds of trash mobs. Unfortunately, Erik’s skills require a lot of point investment overall and there’s not much room leftover to put into Boomerangs until extremely late game.