Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
But will there be any different handbells at all? It seems silly to invent a whole new equipment item and only have one of its kind.

e.g. I would hope that as time goes on we can get a handbell that has more than MP +5 on it, considering that a handbell disallows us from equipping ammo slot items.
I wouldn't bet on it. As far as I can tell, bells exist for two reasons:
1) To further kneecap whatever restricted functionality /GEO might have had, much like how /BRD and /BST were crippled by being unable to equip instruments and jugs.
2) Checking the "uses bells" box in the "shout-outs to previous Final Fantasy games" section of the job design document. Why, if it didn't use bells, it wouldn't have anything besides the name in common with previous Geomancers at all!