What's the point...

[Imperfectionist]

I just can't bring myself to equip a weapon that hinders my characters in some way, even if it is for a good cause

And I mean the amount of damage you do in stagger anyway... surely it evens out somehow? I don't really like the weapons in this game, there's only a few possible weapons for each character and if you want high stats you have no choice but to screw yourself over in some way.

[VeloZer0]

You can think you are gimping yourself by taking a no-stagger weapon, but by not taking it you are gimping yourself with lower stats. Since I switched to Fang's no-stagger weapon I haven't even noticed a single time where I didn't get a stagger because of it. Equipping it on your primary RAV would be debilitating, but on a primarialy COM class it doesn't matter much.

[Imperfectionist]

But I like to use Tri-Disaster to begin with and then switch over to Relentless Assault once the enemy is staggered (with occasional breaks to heal if necessary). So in most battles everyone is a RAV at some point.

Gaaahhh I don't like these pesky weapons

[eestlinc]

so these are the FFXIII equivalent of the nail bat?

[VeloZer0]

If you have three RAVs on a target the odds of one not being able to land the last 0.1% is very low. Even if they were to land a hit and not be able to stagger the enemy you know that there is a hit coming from another party member in a split second anyways.