Quote Originally Posted by Kyte View Post
Keep in mind that although it is unfortunate that they didn't let RUN use Torcleaver, Ragnarok and Caladbolg aren't particularly exceptional great swords. Aettir (for pure tanking), Macbain (DD-focused), and Humility (hybrid) are all good non-Ergon weapons.

Given the current disparity between sword and great sword weapon skill potency and /NIN's status as the typical go-to sub, you can instead work with the current situation and just dual wield swords.
I don't really find myself subbing ninja all that much tbh. And I agree that Ragnarok and Caladbolg are not particularly impressive, it still feels cheap that RUN can use less "ultimate" GS's than PLD. I am working with the current situation - the problem is the current situation is completely nonsensible and borderline stupid.

Something I forgot to touch on before was the SC properties of GS WS's. Spinning Slash, Ground Strike, Resolution, and Dimidiation all have Fragmentation properties. This means aside from Dimi, none of these WS's can SC together. Now I'm not sure if GS is the only weapon type to suffer from this, I'm thinking it isn't, so if there's more, feel free to add. People who never attempt more than a 1 step SC may not even understand what the issue here is. The problem is the overall lack of SC versatility when using their supposed best weapon.

Another thing that would just make sense is to give the job Rune "Fencer" the Fencer job trait. Possibly add the job to more shields even. Whenever I look at the facts surrounding this job it seems like there was a lot of oversight when SE created it.