Weapons to be added to the armory system

[Gamemako]

Perhaps I worded myself wrong, but what I was getting at was this: to implement a full array of classes/jobs they are going to have to add new weapon types. GLA arms are dagger, short sword and long swords. They need to add more of these that don't belong to anything yet to make room for new classes.

What I'm saying is that there's really nothing stopping them from creating a "Knight Sword" category with huge overlap with GLA weapons. They probably won't for most classes, though. No reason to. It'll be 2020 before they run short on traditional FF weapon categories.

While I agree that the archetypal DRK uses Sword and Board or GAxe, within the FF MMO universe they have been using Great Swords.

There's only been one other FF MMO, which isn't much of a sample size, and the preferred weapon there was scythe rather than greatsword. There is a greatsword specialist in FF11; it's called a Rune Fencer and it's based on a Mystic Knight archetype. Copying FF11 isn't much of a plan to begin with, of course, especially when FF11 is supposed to be borrowed from the series at large, not the other way around.

(In terms of axes, they're also a rare weapon -- WotL, D, 4WoL. I mainly bring up MRD in terms of Dark Knight is that they have excellent skillset synergy for a Dark Knight.)

[Lord_Zlatan]

It'll be 2020 before they run short on traditional FF weapon categories.



There's only been one other FF MMO, which isn't much of a sample size, and the preferred weapon there was scythe rather than greatsword. There is a greatsword specialist in FF11; it's called a Rune Fencer and it's based on a Mystic Knight archetype. Copying FF11 isn't much of a plan to begin with, of course, especially when FF11 is supposed to be borrowed from the series at large, not the other way around.

Aaah, I stopped playing by the time the Rune Fencer came out. Just read up about it and it could be cool to see that make a return in 14. I agree that I would rather see 14 copy from the series at large, and not from just 11. However, if something was done in 11 only i wouldn't be opposed to seeing it used in 14.