New Job Trait for Samurai. Bushido: Dual Wielding Great Katanas.

[Concerned4FFxi]

But wouldn't the delay from the 2nd weapon ruin the whole store tp set up that makes sam in this game?

[Glacont]

But wouldn't the delay from the 2nd weapon ruin the whole store tp set up that makes sam in this game?

That's a Good Question. It would depend upon how the Dev Team Approaches this scenario if dual weild is put into practice.

[GailC]

give Samurai a trait representative or derivative of Nitojutsu (i.e. Augmenting a 2H weapon with a 1H weapon equiped in the offhand slot) --

I wonder if this was originally what SE intended, but eventually put the idea on the backburner: if you play around with Altana View, you'll find that Great Katanas can be set as main-hand weapons for dual-wield animations, meaning it's possible (in the viewer, at least) to wield a Great Katana and a one-handed katana or sword at the same time. You can't do this with other two-handed weapons; not even great swords (although I believe it's possible to wield great swords, or even polearms, scythes and great axes while equipping a shield in the viewer)

Since, in game, Great Katanas are flagged as 2 handed weapons, there's coding in the way right now of doing it, but in terms of programming, all they would have to do is add a trait to Samurai that worked like Dual Wield when a great katana is equipped in the main hand. Mechanically, the game is already set up to allow such.

As for how to balance such an ability... this is Samurai we're talking about.

[DarkBass]

Its nice to see this thread continued, sad to see the laziness people have for not reading all the design ideas people have been throwing around, or not reading the intelligent disagreements made already. The point is, if SE did impliment this, it would work. They design and code the game. They can tweak it however they want. Hell they nerfed restraint and im not even sure why. From a firsthand experience it didn't seem broken. Point is, all of you people that think this idea is stupid simply because you don't agree with it and the lackluster attempt to give a reason is "it wouldn't work" Is just not valid.

They run the game so they can make it work anyway they like/see fit. Please come with something more than a one line response in disagreement at an attempt to make others laugh lol.

[Kimikryo]

dual wielding for sams is something I really really miss, I want my SAM to be able to use Niten Ichiryuu. Katana + wakizashi (miyamoto musashi anyone?).
I am honestly confused that samurais in ffxi just can use Nodachis and no normal katanas. We dont even get that special nodachi drawing style that Sephiroth uses in Ehrgeiz, which is a well known style.

[DarkBass]

Seem's like SE's reference to draw style is the kasha and fudo weaponskills. If anything that style would probably be best implimented as a pre ws ja.

[BT75]

[DarkBass]

Hilarious lmao

[BT75]

Hilarious lmao

Well if SAM can dual wield GK's, then I expect WAR to dual wield GA's.

[Delvish]

As amusing as this ability seems, I can see this being added to our list of potential two-hour merits.