Lumiere wrote:
It doesn't happen with weapons. Most NPCs with unique weapons are pretty boss when they have them, and wind up being pretty pathetic when they don't.
This is amazingly incorrect.
There is not a single NPC I can think of that is 'difficult' because it has its weapon. They're either hard to kill, or aren't. Sure, maybe a NPC that spawns with a mithril glaive (like the guards in the faction Lumiere leads), or a swashbuckler NPC with weapons is actually going to hit a bit when it has its weapon, but 'pretty boss' is a gross exaggeration.
There are, in fact, numerous high-end 'boss NPCs' who will brutally molest you if they DON'T have their weapon, due to crazy "unarmed" settings, to the point that I tell people not to disarm them.
Yet again, this seems like another thread where Lumiere is advocating that he needs to l2p, but doesn't want to bother, and would rather complain about "not being able to PvE".