WHM and BLM should get rid of their shield slots.

There were no one-handed weapons and shields for these jobs since Leviathan EX and I doubt we'll see them again.
Even if I have T5 BLM shield I can't even glamour it anymore because it requires one-handed cane to be equipped and all relevant weapons for these jobs are two-handed for more than a year.
I'm not sure why they still keep this system in 3.0 when rudimentary shield sub-class was removed with 1.20 patch:
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/S...Fantasy_XIV%29

The slot hurts why?

On all classes both slots get countet for iLvl.

2 handed weapons counts for both slots.

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Originally Posted by SuperZay

T5 BLM shield

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There is no T5 BLM shield and never was. BLM had to buy a shield with Rowena tokens, for which you had to do the weekly ex primal quest, which got patched into the game with 2.1 (?).

I don't see why we should just get rid of them, but what they should do is let WHM/BLM glamour 1 handed weapons on their 2 handed weapons so we can actually make use of the old stuff.

Seriously why do we have any of the crafted primal weapons for whm/blm if we can't glamour them?

it's a second hand slot, not a shield slot (DoH and DoL use this slot with no shields)

What SE should do:
1. fill up the slot with the 2hand weapon icon (so players don't complain about empty slots)
2. bring out more shields and 1hand weapons for THM and CNJ

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Originally Posted by Chambers

I don't see why we should just get rid of them, but what they should do is let WHM/BLM glamour 1 handed weapons on their 2 handed weapons so we can actually make use of the old stuff.

Seriously why do we have any of the crafted primal weapons for whm/blm if we can't glamour them?

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Yes, please! I would love it if they would add that. Shouldn't be too hard now they they are adding glamour for stuff which takes mulitple slots.
Please SE!

Question: Why is the SMN book a 2h weapon, yet she always uses 1 hand to hold it?

let us dual wield staffs :D

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Question: Why is the SMN book a 2h weapon, yet she always uses 1 hand to hold it?

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gamplay mechanics mostly

Also, it would be hard for SMN/SCH to do their casting animation with no hands free.

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Question: Why is the SMN book a 2h weapon, yet she always uses 1 hand to hold it?

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need the other hand to turn the page.

Haha thanks for the answers, wasn't really a real question :P Maybe should get an offhand item, the quill!

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

Haha thanks for the answers, wasn't really a real question :P Maybe should get an offhand item, the quill!

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I thought that the lore of the summoner was that you have this empty grimore (made by alchemists) and you write in its pages to conjure the magic. I mean, when you cast a summon don't you stand there writing in the page for a few seconds? And then you hold it open and read from it when casting other stuffs.

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Originally Posted by Souljacker

I thought that the lore of the summoner was that you have this empty grimore (made by alchemists) and you write in its pages to conjure the magic. I mean, when you cast a summon don't you stand there writing in the page for a few seconds? And then you hold it open and read from it when casting other stuffs.

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No idea about the lore, either I skipped over it or it wasn't clear when leveling? *shrug*

I do write in the book with some quill that I pull out of who knows where when summoning. That is the only time I write in it however. When casting anything else, I hold the book open and hold my hand over it and shoot it away. However, there is always stuff written in the book, right from the get-go. My current book looks like is has a strategy for one of the circle-arena fights :P

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Originally Posted by Averax

gamplay mechanics mostly

Also, it would be hard for SMN/SCH to do their casting animation with no hands free.

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They should take notes from Ast, they are practically hands free.

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Originally Posted by SuperZay

There were no one-handed weapons and shields for these jobs since Leviathan EX and I doubt we'll see them again.
Even if I have T5 BLM shield I can't even glamour it anymore because it requires one-handed cane to be equipped and all relevant weapons for these jobs are two-handed for more than a year.
I'm not sure why they still keep this system in 3.0 when rudimentary shield sub-class was removed with 1.20 patch:
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/S...Fantasy_XIV%29

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No, no, no and no. WHM and BLM should NOT get rid of their shield slot. The exact opposite should happen. TheY should keep the shield slot and SE shoul put some 1 handed weapons and shield back in the game at ilvls past 70-100. I don't care what happened in v1.2, that was a different game.

Some players enjoy the asthetic of shield use, and it also provides a little horizontal progression sinice you can choose between a slightly more powerful weapon and slightly better defense. If people could drop the big numbers mentality and just look a little more at playing for fun, we'd have a more rounded game.

Most jobs have never had anything that can go in the off-hand slot. Even Ninja, which dual wields, does so with a single item that acts as a pair.

I think we should have more one handed staffs for both classes, tbh.
It'd be nice to have them come back.