Weapons You Wish You Had

I'm not talking about future jobs (limited or otherwise) or roles here. I'm saying, hypothetically, if you could have any weapon to play with right now, what would that look like?


I see Gaia and it just makes me yearn for a big F*off hammer. Something dps oriented where you can just throw your weight around. I would like one of the abilities to be called the Nut Cracker.

My other dream weapon would be replacing the AST arms with a crystal ball. Nothing else to it, I just want it.

Whip.

One-handed hammers.

The Emperor's New Starglobe: just the circle of cards spinning in the air above your hand.

Claws, bats, crossbows

I believe I've answered smth similar in another thread that I couldn't remember which...but I'll just put it up here again ;)

First, the joke weapons :p
WHM with a selfie stick (with a smartphone attached to it, flashes everytime casting)
SCH with a drawing tablet
AST with a fidget spinner

Now for the real hypothetical weapons...
SCH with bamboo scrolls or commander's baton.
AST with separate equip slot for the globe and the cards. Globe obviously placed on main hand while the cards set on off-hand. The purpose is to have them being able to select one from few possible options for different purposes. Probably cards for more buffing pot, or cards for self dps increase, or cards for increased heals, or chance to land debuffs, etc
Iron Fan, probably for DNC...or new, hypothetical class.
Music scores for BRD's off hand. Similar to AST, to supply them options.

Also I want DoL's bazooka xD for MCH maybe?!

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Originally Posted by Rongway

Whip.

One-handed hammers.

The Emperor's New Starglobe: just the circle of cards spinning in the air above your hand.

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Ooo a whip.
+1

Weird weapons would be cool. Weird in the sense they're just not really standard or at least come in combination that makes them special (not like.. "that makes no sense" lol).

• Say the chain whip attached to lantern like thing for a dark job
• Pylons that work directly with game mechanics (like large crystals that infuse with elements) - like a magical (rather than weapon) based noctis (when he has all the royal arms around himself)
• Scarf, cloak, Sash, cloth wrap - like a mix of Voldemort, Spawn (Comic book cape), Bayonetta's hair, Nezha (mythology), and Doctor Strange's cape. Given the flowing nature the animations for attacks could be akin to Voldemort in the final movie or as I was originally thinking a means and media for transformation based job. Not only could the 'weapon' be a visual statement setting the job aside from others but such a 'weapon' would also be more logically feasible to display in transformations which gets around a common issue transformation based jobs have (pretty much zero customization options lol).

In terms of more standard weapons it could be neat to see giant bludgeon weapons, like Sauron (LotR). In the concept of the above, adding some 'weird', I had thought perhaps the weapon incorporated a bell (either at the end or within the bludgeon part), and so it was like a GeoKnight like job (perhaps also has pylons that it can smack for extra effect :3).

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4c/fc...7b4968669b.jpg

An arm cannon; like the original Blue Mage, the copy ability OG Mega Man.

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Originally Posted by LisSquid

My other dream weapon would be replacing the AST arms with a crystal ball. Nothing else to it, I just want it.

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I very much want this. I've literally only used the Canopus Lux since getting it back in Heavensward because I can at least pretend it's a crystal ball. I really dislike the design of Astrologian globes.

I would also really like a classic hammer for White Mage and fans for Dancer.

Whips would definitely be cool. I was hoping that the seiryu greatsword was a sign they were working on whip animations but no such luck.

Hammers/maces would also be great.

One thing I personally wish they'd bring back are shields for BLMs and WHMs. I just really liked the aesthetic. But that ship has long since sailed, I know

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Originally Posted by Rongway

The Emperor's New Starglobe: just the circle of cards spinning in the air above your hand.

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Oh that is SUCH a cool idea~

Bells. Used to be a thing. They’re just weird enough to stand apart from our roster.

A huge paintbrush, like the Mado weapon for BLM to draw stuf in the air and cast spells like that.
That's what my BLM is using right now as a Glamour, but it's not the same, so I'd like to have a class like that too.

• MCH: The ability to glamour the 'lunchbox' separately using the off-hand slot. And once you have this, 'Emperor's New Lunchbox' (or whatever).
• MNK: A relic weapon equivalent of the Emperor's New Fists. Let me be punchy and glowy. The closest thing I've found yet are certain stages of the Eureka relics (which are still gloves), and the Makai Fists (which are lovely plain cloth gloves you can dye, which have a nifty effect when in use).
• AST: More variety in globes. The current relic, which rotates on a horizontal axis rather than a vertical one, is a nice change, but give us ones like cards just rotating around a glowing sphere of pure light we seemingly summon out of thin air.
• AST: Split AST weapons into the globe and cards, letting us slot new card designs. Cards wouldn't have stats, but it would allow some visual variety; make cards that are glowing rectangles of pure light, make cards that are bits of living flame, make cards that are shimmering stardust in a vague suggestion of rectangles.
• GNB: More weapon appearances. The Stormblood primal crafted weapons would be nice, but I'd settle for more weapon appearances at all. Please. For the love of the Twelve, I'm begging you.
• DNC: Long shot, but... dance styles as an off-hand no-stat glamour thing. (Or even as styles that genuinely do change the effects of certain dance moves. It would be a enormous pain to balance, but it would be neat.) You could even have culturally-locked dances, so that Xaela Au Ra could have a dance style from the Azim Steppe, Sea Wolf Roegadyn could have dances appropriate to their culture, etc. This will never happen because of the amount of animation work it would take, but as long as we're dreaming...
• PLD: A sword that's purely a hilt until you draw it, when you channel your own aether into it in order to form a blade. Could particularly be neat if you had some story to go with it, like -- say -- job storyline for the next expansion, where such channeling of aether might be the next step of PLD development. (Yes, it's basically a lightsaber, but 'laser sword' is too broad a category to be copyrighted; that's been proven before.)

A whip sword like Seven uses in Type-0. I don’t know what class will use it but I want it.

Duel wielding Axes,
Javelin/shield
Dolls(like Lulu in ff10)
2hammers
(rods/battle staff)

Pistol/offhand sword (corsair basicly)

Orbs (basicly can turn into any weapon based on ability)

Potions(to inject yourself to turn into creatures like vincent in ff7

Fans for dancer.

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Originally Posted by LisSquid

My other dream weapon would be replacing the AST arms with a crystal ball. Nothing else to it, I just want it.

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This- I would 100% want this

Fans, though that ship has apparently sailed with DNC. Also, whips, or psychic orbs like Kuja's in Dissidia (or, closer, Viola's in Soul Calibur V).

I also like the weirder weapons from FFT, Bolts of cloth and Handbags, they'd be a hoot in XIV. The Magic Guns that shoot spells would be fun, too; actual Harps would be good, outside of the Har/Bow hybrids in BRD's relics.

A green ring with a power lantern.

Definitely more hammers for warrior. I know we got the dwarven hammer with ShB but it isn't dyeable and a bit on the boring side design-wise, so more hammers would be appreciated.

Definitely also more GNB and DNC weapons in general. Considering that SAM and RDM started with weapons from all lvl 50 primals, Unending Coil, all HW primals, all Alexander weapons and a bunch more I have to say I'm rather disappointed, especially since GNB and DNC didn't even get a crafted primal weapon besides Shinryu.

1. True hunter class that can tame real world animals something like blue mage but without the silly BLU limits
2. Necromancer class without a doubt that uses whips
3. Berserker class that uses that nail bat from FF7 Remake with the same sound effects!

Shields.
I know, we've already got and use them in game, but they're not really used offensively. They're practically there as a stat-stick/decoration. Ever since they removed Shield Swipe, the only attack focused around the shield is Shield Bash, which never gets used since it's on the GCD.

I'd like to see more attacks where you slam into people, swipe them, bash them, or mix the shield into your existing attacks. There's just something great about slamming someone with a wall of metal.

Kunai and (edit) normal looking Wakizashi and perhaps some Tanto. It is stupid how we have Ninja for as long as we had and still don't have these basic weapons for Ninja.

Also, I would like for them to start designing Ninja weapons where one weapon is different from the other. Like they did with Thancred. It's totally not fair.

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Originally Posted by Shalan

Shields.
I know, we've already got and use them in game, but they're not really used offensively. They're practically there as a stat-stick/decoration. Ever since they removed Shield Swipe, the only attack focused around the shield is Shield Bash, which never gets used since it's on the GCD.

I'd like to see more attacks where you slam into people, swipe them, bash them, or mix the shield into your existing attacks. There's just something great about slamming someone with a wall of metal.

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We have Shield Lob as well, but I definetely agree we need more shield-based attacks - 1.0's old SEN class being rolled into GLA/PLD ended up losing stuff from shield use more than it gave.

Non-glowing versions of Artifact weapons (the ones that already have a non-glowing version, I'm obviously not talking about). I like the design of the Sandungs, but not the fact that is has no non glowing version.

I'm ok with just using staves, but I really miss Aero III's animation (and the spell itself), nothing beats that Cardcaptor Sakura spin

https://64.media.tumblr.com/afec1c1b...o2_r1_500.gifv

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Originally Posted by LisSquid

I'm not talking about future jobs (limited or otherwise) or roles here. I'm saying, hypothetically, if you could have any weapon to play with right now, what would that look like?


I see Gaia and it just makes me yearn for a big F*off hammer. Something dps oriented where you can just throw your weight around. I would like one of the abilities to be called the Nut Cracker.

My other dream weapon would be replacing the AST arms with a crystal ball. Nothing else to it, I just want it.

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A whip would be unique (like Seven from FFType0)
A mace (like Cinque from FFType0)
A hammer (like that of Thor)
A flute (like Deuce from FFType0)
A deck of cards (like Ace from FFType0, which should be different from the cards used by AST)
A bell (because they have already been used in some other FF games)
A crossbow
and for my DRG, a swallow (just like the main weapon of Serge from Chrono Cross)

A ban hammer, so that i can *bonk* RMT and Bots when i find them.