One thing that SMN is missing

I love the SMN job, however it seems like it is missing something. Whips, the weapon of choose for summoner. My all time favorite summoner, Rydia, was pretty handy with a whip. Is there room in the FFXI world for whips?

I just can't picture myself using a whip.....

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Originally Posted by Kfox

I love the SMN job, however it seems like it is missing something. Whips, the weapon of choose for summoner. My all time favorite summoner, Rydia, was pretty handy with a whip. Is there room in the FFXI world for whips?

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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there isn't any room for whips in FFXI, SE says it would be too much work.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Unfortunately due to the fact that it would take approximately the same amount of manpower to create these new weapon classes as it would to create a full expansion pack, the development team determined it is pretty difficult to do this. Apologies

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This was posted here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...could-use-them

inb4 they add a whip into the next Buffolo event or something.

Well then, The obvious Solution is to create a new Expansion and add Whips to it as well.

And give us an A-! Make it 2-handed, and Summoner Specific. A SMN Specific Set of weapons? Imagine the possibilities.

IMAGINE THEM

DO ET

A 2-handed whip? That doesn't make any sense to me at all.

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Originally Posted by Karbuncle

Well then, The obvious Solution is to create a new Expansion and add Whips to it as well.

And give us an A-! Make it 2-handed, and Summoner Specific. A SMN Specific Set of weapons? Imagine the possibilities.

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Considering SE's stance on this, I have my doubts it will ever happen. Easier would be to make a Whip a sub type of throwing weapons that act much like returning weapons, and have an animation on the mob that is whip-like.

Summoners will have to get Throwing (or alternatively, a new skill, but this is unnecessary) as a native skill of course, but it wouldn't be too much further from there to add two dozen whips that do a decent amount of damage.

This would also help deal with balance issues that come from having to balance around perp cost staves, as it would just be a class of throwing weapon in a way.

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Originally Posted by Babekeke

A 2-handed whip? That doesn't make any sense to me at all.

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Neither is Dual Wielding Whips :P!

Think of it more like h2h ... except you can use a grip.

Edit: For the record on the whip idea, i was being semi-sarcastic. I don't think SE will give us whips :X

Whips are nice, but they were really not used for high-end damage, so they would roughly have the same stats of a Staff without the mage enhancements of Staves.

And most jobs would be able to wield them too.

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Originally Posted by Karbuncle

Neither is Dual Wielding Whips :P!

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Ironman 2!! :p