Dark Knight - Great Sword or Great Scythe poll

[Rustyhagun]

Well...I would say why not both. Great sword cuz, yah great swords.




But you all are thinking the wrong kind of scythe......

.....cuz this aint no farmers tool:

[LineageRazor]

I'm not even sure why there's a debate, here. Why not give DRK both Scythe and Great Sword? Lots of classes in this game (perhaps even all of them, depending on how you look at it) have two types of weapons to choose from. GLD get Swords and Daggers. PGL get Claws and Hora. CNJ get Staves and Wands. ACN get Picatrix and Grimoires.

The only issue I see here is that unlike the above examples, Scythe and Great Sword do not have similar wielding animations, but I'm sure that could be worked around.

[Jaykos]

BTW this thread has now evolved (devolved???) into a scythe vs great sword picture thread no matter how irrelevant the posts.

Gogogogogo.

[Rissy]

BTW this thread has now evolved (devolved???) into a scythe vs great sword picture thread no matter how irrelevant the posts.

Wooo~

[Synapse]

There is no other class that is suited to use scythe, so might as well make DRK use scythe.

wth who would suggest sword and shield? its like giving Marauder a tree branch with a flower as weapon.

Expecting this class to stem off Marauder.

[XanderOlivieri]

I'm not even sure why there's a debate, here. Why not give DRK both Scythe and Great Sword? Lots of classes in this game (perhaps even all of them, depending on how you look at it) have two types of weapons to choose from. GLD get Swords and Daggers. PGL get Claws and Hora. CNJ get Staves and Wands. ACN get Picatrix and Grimoires.

The only issue I see here is that unlike the above examples, Scythe and Great Sword do not have similar wielding animations, but I'm sure that could be worked around.

Conjurer don't use staves, they use radicals, crooks, canes, wands, and 4 different rods. Thaumaturge use staves.

[zaviermhigo]

Ugh so many scythe people, just because of XI, I liked XI too, but I'm not such a fanboy I'm going to discount two decades worth of FF lore. They use a great sword, nalgering was so cool, and a pretty classic great sword design that is even in FFIII. I pick Great Sword, because that is a drk, scythe is just some abomination from one game that HAD MULTIPLE WEAPONS be used BY JOBS. In the most classic sense, if DRK can only use one weapon, it'd be a great sword. IF this game had multiple weapons per job/class, then I'd say give it both. Maybe that's the problem not what weapon drk should have, but the fact that we only have the ability to use one weapon, this that is only a newer ff concept, the older games had people using multiple weapons.

And for those that say well no other class can use sycthe besides drk so they have to have, why does there have to be a battle scythe in the game period? You just want it, it isn't needed, same with great sword just saying. There is no need to have a scythe class besides people like it in xi. But in xi you could choose if you were a great sword guy or a great scythe guy, and it kept both a lil happy, in this game, we're going to automatically cut off a huge demographic of drk fans, who didn't play XI if you give it a scythe, just saying, or rather playing devils advocate, because I rather liked that in Xi you could do both. See it from the majority of FF fans, who didn't play XI, but might be playing XIV, I meet them a lot. (I think scythe is only xi and type 0) it was lower dps than a great sword too until apoc, I don't get it, just cause it looked cooler?

[Buklohn]

If anything this thread is proof that we need more weapon types in this game lol.

[Swagcity]

If anything this thread is proof that we need more weapon types in this game lol.

I don't see why not (But I am certain someone will, lol, which is fine, they are entitled). No clue how they will implement this; should not be too difficult though. Still waiting for a nunchaku wielding class/job; thought XIV would be able to implement these no prob. Nunchaku alone will make a brutha sub for 90 days; I have no kids, all of my money is spent on Air Jordans and bills.

They should just release both imo; just balance them out. This one weapon crap is annoying imo. XIV appears to want to distance itself from XI (That is fine, different game), but certain aspects of XI worked; do not be afraid to copy a lil something something from XI. Do a Dev poll or something, idk.

[Buklohn]

To call those who want a scythe for DRK fanboys is kind of a contradiction because aren't the people who want great swords fanboys as well? I never played ffXI to be honest, however after XI introduced scythes for DRK there has to be reason why people are drawn more to it then the great sword? Maybe its the way the weapon itself portrays the DRK as a troubled soul better than that of the great sword. Great sword has been done to death by every mmo out there i think in order to make ffxiv more unique then it needs to break away from that old trend, which is why i think it scythes were introduced in XI for that reason to help people ease into a new fresh feel for DRK with scythes.