Ryzom

I started, by choosing magic 1,2,3, I'm currently Fighter 16 and Mage 17, I was wondering about buying weapons, I'm still using a staff, but to choose any other weapon like axe or sword, you have to be (skill req.) an axe master or a sword master, how do you become either?

the ingame-info for the weapons is misleading - you dont need a certain skill to yield a weapon, you get a default attack stanza from the start on which enables you to use ALL weapons.

its the other way round - certain combat skills only work with certain weapons. like blunt wpns can be used to stun while piercing wps can be used to ignore armor.

Te combat system is working quite well and offers a wide choice of fighting styles. since small weapons come with a smaller penalty on the stamina you need to use combat stanzas its very realistic. A char with a dagger deals less damage but a 2H-axe fighter runs out of stamina faster and might not use it to its full devastating extent once this happens.