Dark Knight - Great Sword or Great Scythe poll

[Zumi]

Scythes are already in the game as botany offhand. Makes more sense to use a 2h sword like most dark knights.

[Highlanderx]

I'm... confused why this is even a poll? Dark Knights in the series have always had swords except for XI.

More like why is it a Poll? When it had basically been confirmed to be gladiators 2nd job, which is a DD.

[Teknoman]

I say great sword or just sword and shield.

Scythe usage just never seemed right for a Dark Knight.

Now once a beastmaster/tamer class is introduced, if they want a new weapon type, they should figure out how to introduce whips to the game, especially since its a long time FF weapon.

[Gamemako]

I made some changes to my post that you may not have seen. Please have a look and see what you think.

No, I did see them. I just don't see that changing at maximum one secondary stat can make a worthwhile difference. Onion Shield adds 7 parry and 11 CHR. 7 secondary points at i90 is to the tune of 0.2% DPS, give or take. It's a small percentage of the value of the shield as a DPS stat stick and largely meaningless overall.

It cracks me up when people argue that a scythe is off balance and isn't practical to use in battle, really? and a oversized sword that weighs 150 plus pounds is?

Actual two-handed swords were typically around 6lbs (2-3kg), smaller than Bakiraka has suggested. They were weighted toward the hilt, so that they were easy to maneuver. It was very, very rare to have a weapon heavier than 8lbs (4kg) because it became too slow to handle effectively in combat. As huge as the Goblin Longsword in the game looks, it is proportionally only slightly larger than a real-world 4lb (<2kg) counterpart. The main exaggeration there is actually the width rather than the length of the blade. The Curtana, Bravura, and Dual Haken are definitely too large, though only one of those is constructed out of a material with a real-world counterpart -- sorry, I don't consider magical crystals to be anything like lead glass.

Scythes are not balanced for combat in any sense. Without conversion into a gimpy polearm, they're an absolute mess to handle with virtually no combat strengths -- you'd actually be better off turning it around and hitting someone with the haft. Would give you a lot more feasible range.

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More like why is it a Poll? When it had basically been confirmed to be gladiators 2nd job, which is a DD.

Yoshi just uses it as an example of what could be done. That's far from confirmation.