Weapons are basic equipment that are used to deal damage to or inflict status effects on the various monsters of Ragol.
All weapons' damage is determined by the wielder's ATP stat regardless of the weapon's type (melee, ranged, or technique). Many weapons also provide a boost to MST to improve the power of techniques (e.g. wands). In order to equip a weapon, players must meet its stat requirement, needing a certain amount of either ATP, ATA or MST to do so.
Weapon types
There are 15 types of weapons in Phantasy Star Online, split into 3 categories of weapons: melee, ranged, and technique. In general, Hunters can equip all the melee weapons, Rangers can equip all the ranged weapons and Forces can equip all the technique weapons, but many weapon types can be worn by other classes, and certain weapons can only be equipped by specific character types (such as HUnewearl or RAcast).