Quote Originally Posted by Exstal View Post
You know you can only use that weapon in one direction right? When you slash from side to side.
Let's be fair, here.

Lancer weapons can only really be used in one direction, too: forward as you thrust the weapon into your opponent. However, combat animations still have us performing slicing/sweeping motions with these weapons, which would be completely impractical for a weapon like a lance, where the only lethal part of the weapon is the pointed tip. While it's not the best example, that RWBY web series has a main character that uses a scythe, which you could use as a basis for how a scythe is used in combat (baring the whole anime physics and the fact that it's part sniper rifle), which would be lots of slashing, sweeping, spinning motions.

That said, scythes are currently being used by Botanists, and DRK really only had access to scythes in XI. It'd make more sense to put DRK on a sword class, like GLD.