However they go about it, I hope they choose a method that's fun. Rationalizing that it should be Mrd because there would be less 'work' involved with 'changes' sounds like phoning it in to me. Yeah, maybe Mrd's skill set makes more sense, but just assuming the Drk's weapon would be scythe because Drks had the -option- to use Scythe in FFXI (whether it was the 'best' or not is irrelevant at this point; they never really used Scythes before XI, and this is a new game, so a new style is completely viable), and then saying that the reason Drk should be from Mrd is because they don't even have to change the weapon animation? That shouldn't even be on the list of reasons at all, let alone on the bottom.

I dare say they are allowed to make new animations for new classes/jobs, I'd also say it's feasible that they could use the Axe animations for a Scythe even if the class is Gld, not sure what's stopping them from doing that.