Can we have a Battle King/Battle Queen Job so we can have a Scythe user?

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Originally Posted by MeeDeggiThePunisher

Do some of you actually play this game? We are getting a flying christmas bear as a mount and you people have a problem with scythes?

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I do not. My only issue was with the example given. We have magiked Crystal mediums, books, star globes, hell even lalafells...

I would not mind a Scythe job to be introduced. However i am very happy that Dark Knight does not use them. We are Knights, we GreatSwords and Void magiks, in heavy armor. It's all that i wanted.

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Originally Posted by MeeDeggiThePunisher

Do some of you actually play this game? We are getting a flying christmas bear as a mount and you people have a problem with scythes?

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Not necessarily an issue, per say. FFXIV finds enough of a balance between realism and fantasy. One aspect of realism is that, at the core, all martial jobs have a fundamental ground in plausibility in what weapons are being used. While the size of some DRK weapons are to ludicrous proportions, their stance is an actual known parrying stance. I just believe that a combat focused Job would not focus their martial skill with a tool-made-weapon. We could potentially see use of the war scythes Alacran as shown, or the other similar weapons.

I can count on my hands the amount of swords that would make sense in HEMA from Paladin, and even less from DRK. A warscythe job wouldn't be a break in the suspension of disbelief I feel.

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Originally Posted by MeeDeggiThePunisher

Do some of you actually play this game? We are getting a flying christmas bear as a mount and you people have a problem with scythes?

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yeah.. do we really need a reason other than "fantasy scythe weapons are cool."
... or did you need us to actually say it? Cause fantasy scythe weapons are cool.


in other reality based arguments, nobody EVER used a floating deck of cards orbiting a floating gyroscope as a weapon and Greatswords in this game are unuseably huge and nobody would ever be able to actually fight with 100+ Lbs of steel on a handle (I am aware that there are limited applications for "horse cutter" swords in various cultures but nobody fights a battle with one).



shall I say it again? Fantasy scythe weapons are cool.

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Originally Posted by MeeDeggiThePunisher

Do some of you actually play this game? We are getting a flying christmas bear as a mount and you people have a problem with scythes?

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thank you, this made my night.

I'm glad scythes aren't on DRK as every DRK that isn't XI used a sword (except for Leon in II who could also use a spear), so swords are what I always think of when I think DRK.

That said, I don't have anything against another job having scythes as a weapon. Yes, scythes as we see them in most games weren't normally used as weapons except out of necessity which was covered (war scythes are a different beast and wielded completely differently), but it's a video game, it's fine if they're in as the reaper scythes we commonly know them to be.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Scythes are already in the game though, as a sub-tool for BTN like how they are meant to be (scythes are an agricultural tool used for reaping wheat and grains). Or if you want a scythe weapon, Edda's scythe from PotD is in the game anyway for multiple Jobs (bought on the Mogstation), so I don't think you will ever see a specific scythe using DoW class added (to say nothing of even FFXI's use of it being only added as an afterthought in a patch and was not part of the DRK Job originally by default, given DRK has traditionally been a sword/great sword user in past FF games like FFXI and even it's origin in FFII).

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Please note: Dragoon and Fisher (Spear weapon and spearfishing)

EDIT: With that said, though, I'd much prefer to see more blunt weapons in game rather than another slashing one - hammer/mace tanks or healers would be nice, as neither of those roles saw more jobs added in SB.

I don't think we need a job around it. We just need to wield one and have some aesthetic effects around the use of it but mimicking the potentcies of the skills DRK already have.

Something to think about in some far future.

All applications of IRL aside

I don't see a reason not to make a battlescythe wielding job in FFXIV as long as it establishes itself in which ever role they place it in as regardless it would likely be well received just on possible aesthetic value alone. If you need examples one need only do a google image search online.

Maybe instead of an actual scythe user, perhaps more cosmetics for glamour?