Editing How to Force Basically (section)

=== Rods ===
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Rods is the primary Technic weapon of choice for Forces. It can equip 4 Technics, has vastly more TEC than [[Wands]] and [[Tech-Mags]], and is triple-castable. '''They are the primary choice when it comes to chainbreaking, as they have by very far the highest TEC out of the three Technic weapons.''' In fact, the damage difference is so much that you should probably always use a Rod to break chains.

When it comes to chaining, though, it has a major weakness: Rods cannot cast while Strafing. The lack of ability to Strafe Cast affects chaining somewhat: while does not affect some tools such as [[Foverse]] (only stacks once) and [[Sazonde]] (only stacks three times, so a triple-cast), it does affects other more spammable Technics, such as [[Nagrants]] and [[Diga]]. You should keep that in mind while equipping Technics.

Also, if the R-side of Rods is not linked with any Technics, R would allow the player to Guard instead. Quite a good feature if you like Guarding.