One-Handed Caster Weapons and Shields?

We haven't seen any since Leviathan and crafted primal weapons, was there a reason for this? I found the one handed weapons pretty cool, especially having a shield as Healer and would like to see more. :)

Imagine if they made the new WHM relic weapon a wand and shield.

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Originally Posted by SecretCrowds

Imagine if they made the new WHM relic weapon a wand and shield.

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That would be pretty sweet.

Petty sure they stopped them so you didn't need Shields to drop so that you could upgrade your weapon and to stream line the system for casters unlike pld they don't always have a shield so it made upgrades a bit tricker when you got a better ilvl one hand but no shield you couldn't do anything without taking a hit to your stats and I don't think there were that many caster Shields to choose from which made it worse

One handed caster weapons were the worst. Imagine getting your bis only to learn it was 1 weapon damage and 2 of your main stat worse than everyone else. I wish they'd go back and change all them all to two handed so they could be used for glamor.

they're dead. let them go.

There were actually plenty of shields leveling up, it was only until endgame where there weren't many options. Idk about you guys but I like options.

the shields were there as a carry over from 1.0 when shield was its own class in iteself called sentinel. Since it doesn't exist any more and there was no need bar glamour it was stopped, thats why it suddenly endded at end game

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Originally Posted by Eruantien

the shields were there as a carry over from 1.0 when shield was its own class in iteself called sentinel. Since it doesn't exist any more and there was no need bar glamour it was stopped, thats why it suddenly endded at end game

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Sentinel, sounds interesting?

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Originally Posted by KokonoeAiyoko

There were actually plenty of shields leveling up, it was only until endgame where there weren't many options. Idk about you guys but I like options.

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options never existed. when SE decides to have a one-hand wand & shield, they replaced the 2-handed cane/staff in that set completely.

if you want one-handed wand & shield, tell SE to have equivalent 2-handed cane/staff for us to choose, which I don't think they will do it.

Sentinels were never a thing as far as know. Maybe something was planned and never used, but I never saw them in 1.0. Maybe they can do something with them to make extra jobs in another expack. Split cnj and thm like acn where they are wand and shield and mace and shield classes. Making the cnj split dps and the thm split a healer.

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Originally Posted by lordoftheapes79

Sentinels were never a thing as far as know. Maybe something was planned and never used, but I never saw them in 1.0. Maybe they can do something with them to make extra jobs in another expack. Split cnj and thm like acn where they are wand and shield and mace and shield classes. Making the cnj split dps and the thm split a healer.

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Sentinel was a thing in 1.0. It was a side skill that gave you more shield skills, increased blocking, etc.

Just like GLA/PLD could use Daggers, but then NIN came along. Shields might be moved to some other Job or phased out.

Running design seems that the weapon type defines the Job.
Any Job with more than one weapon type, is just asking for giving it over to some new Job later on or for it to be phased out.

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Originally Posted by lordoftheapes79

Sentinels were never a thing as far as know. Maybe something was planned and never used, but I never saw them in 1.0. Maybe they can do something with them to make extra jobs in another expack. Split cnj and thm like acn where they are wand and shield and mace and shield classes. Making the cnj split dps and the thm split a healer.

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Sentinels was a kind of hidden stat that raised up and unlocked skills. a pld for example woud have pld and sentinel that needed to be levelled.

Its more than likely they dropped it after goofing up the Allagan weapon for BLM and the excessive amounts of complaining about having to upgrade both the weapon and shield with Mirrors of the Whorl that never dropped.

I remember how badass I felt when I first got my Allagan Scepter. I wouldn't mind a wand/shield combo as long as you can get them at or around the same time.

I'd be happy if we can at least glamour wands/shield. I have to say that I quite like the look of my WHM using a shield.

Otherwise, no need for ilv 200+ wands/shield

I didn't like them but maybe they are going to give it to a new job in the future? Though it seems they dropped them. They could still use some shorter rod, still 2H, just for style anyway.

there was a thread like this not too long ago and the op got like 3 likes.

I hope SE will not listen to these wand/shield lovers because they're gonna please 50 people from every server combined but upset the rest of the caster players.

I think BLM and WHM should keep using only staves, but we could introduce a new class that uses shield and a wand?

I am glad 1h wand and shields are gone. I always thought that they looked hideous.

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Originally Posted by myahele

I'd be happy if we can at least glamour wands/shield. I have to say that I quite like the look of my WHM using a shield.

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Indeed. All the THM/BLM/CNJ/WHM shields are a complete waste glamour-wise, and that's a shame!

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Originally Posted by Evangela

there was a thread like this not too long ago and the op got like 3 likes.

I hope SE will not listen to these wand/shield lovers because they're gonna please 50 people from every server combined but upset the rest of the caster players.

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Because you speak for everyone?

they should make either WHM or BLM go one way or the other.

personally, i like BLMs with two-handed staves and WHMs with Shield + Wand/Mace.

I'm fine with thembeing phased out as I always preferred the two handed staffs.

I could see, though, that the combination could be for something like BLU in the future

Not again...

Only for glamour. No more. /thread

(Why people always make new thread when there's thread like this before? Why don't you just bump it omg)

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Originally Posted by KokonoeAiyoko

Because you speak for everyone?

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Yes, I speak for everyone as we can see how many Likes you got in the OP.

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Originally Posted by Eul

Only for glamour. No more. /thread

(Why people always make new thread when there's thread like this before? Why don't you just bump it omg)

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there's no way you can glamour one hand and shield on to two-hands, that's the problem.

(and having to scroll through multiple pages to find old topics doesn't make sense, that's why).

Healers with shields look badass in my opinion.

Like I mean I know we have tanks and all that, but a wandering healer wouldn't just use a staff. They'd likely have a shield to protect themselves from oncoming arrows, spells, etc WHILE healing others. I always found healers with shields and something else (typically in old lore would be a sword not some magic item) to be super realistic and awesome.

I just like it a lot more. Like I love plate-cloth combinations like what dragon age 2 had stylized as it's end-game gear along with shields and some melee weapon on a healer.

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

there's no way you can glamour one hand and shield on to two-hands, that's the problem.

(and having to scroll through multiple pages to find old topics doesn't make sense, that's why).

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Any chance they could just mash some wand and shields into one item so that we can use them for glamour? I don't believe casters have any animation that effects the shield, so it shouldn't be that hard to implement?

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Originally Posted by SovereignAegis

Healers with shields look badass in my opinion.

Like I mean I know we have tanks and all that, but a wandering healer wouldn't just use a staff. They'd likely have a shield to protect themselves from oncoming arrows, spells, etc WHILE healing others. I always found healers with shields and something else (typically in old lore would be a sword not some magic item) to be super realistic and awesome.

I just like it a lot more. Like I love plate-cloth combinations like what dragon age 2 had stylized as it's end-game gear along with shields and some melee weapon on a healer.

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Absolutely. I also like the ideal of my healer class getting added defense from wearing the shield.

Alot of people disliked the idea of the wand/shield combo. If they wanted the wand it should only be the wand and not a shield.

Probably should have just picked one job (whm or blm) to have wand + shield and let the other job have the 2h weapon.

Simply make weapon and shield in one item, like tank armour that cannot equip head gear.
Then solves everything, it will be one single item, but appears as 2 pieces on you when equipped. ^^;

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Originally Posted by SovereignAegis

Healers with shields look badass in my opinion.

Like I mean I know we have tanks and all that, but a wandering healer wouldn't just use a staff. They'd likely have a shield to protect themselves from oncoming arrows, spells, etc WHILE healing others. I always found healers with shields and something else (typically in old lore would be a sword not some magic item) to be super realistic and awesome.

I just like it a lot more. Like I love plate-cloth combinations like what dragon age 2 had stylized as it's end-game gear along with shields and some melee weapon on a healer.

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nah... we're in a world that has magics. wizards don't need heavy armor or shield. we have magic shield like Protect, Stoneskin, Manawall/ward.

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

there's no way you can glamour one hand and shield on to two-hands, that's the problem.

(and having to scroll through multiple pages to find old topics doesn't make sense, that's why).

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What I mean is only for glamour purpose if this gonna be developed for glamour, not become ilv 200+ weapon.

(JP forum looks more tidy so they no need to make other thread to discuss same topic)

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Originally Posted by Nicobo

Simply make weapon and shield in one item, like tank armour that cannot equip head gear.
Then solves everything, it will be one single item, but appears as 2 pieces on you when equipped. ^^;

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This would work well for casters because they only have one type of shield.

PLD might have some trouble with this since they have 3 types of available shields.

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Originally Posted by Giantbane

This would work well for casters because they only have one type of shield.

PLD might have some trouble with this since they have 3 types of available shields.

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Yes, thank for reminding about shield type. In fact I only suggested this for casters.

I know some ppl hate caster shields bcoz of how they work,
and some ppl like caster shields bcoz of how they look,
so I just think, SE can make new caster shield in this way, same work different look. ^^;

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Originally Posted by Evangela

nah... we're in a world that has magics. wizards don't need heavy armor or shield.

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Actually, wizards in this world do wear armor. We just never got that option, but look at Ser Charibert. He's a wizard that has both cloth and armor.
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