You all make good points. There is not much incentive to make a footwork build, but some people alrwady have them. Footwork is surely not of par with a good H2H weapon, but there are some simple things SE can do to bring it back into popularity. If it could exceed 2 hits, I think that would pretty much do it, but it would also be pretty broken I think. If you have a 2-4 H2H and could kick up to 4x... even in Abyssea you would be able to do 1.8k dmg in an attack round. Not to mention you would get over 60tp from it. But here is hoping lol..

Outside of Abyssea, without empy, I would almost always use footwork build. I have killed thousands upon thousands of mobs completing trials for various H2H weapons, and in my experience, Footwork speeds up kills pretty noticably.