For the BLU lovers!

[HakuroDK]

No thanks to a gun wielding blue or red mage... Sword or nothing.

Well there's a problem with that. The way classes work in FFXIV right now is that you equip a weapon type assigned to a specific class, and boom. You are suddenly that class. If two different classes have the same weapon type, how would that work? And I'm pretty sure Blue and Red Mages wouldn't be using even 3/4 of the Gladiator's skills anyway.

[Nalien]

Well there's a problem with that. The way classes work in FFXIV right now is that you equip a weapon type assigned to a specific class, and boom. You are suddenly that class. If two different classes have the same weapon type, how would that work? And I'm pretty sure Blue and Red Mages wouldn't be using even 3/4 of the Gladiator's skills anyway.

You're aware we're getting a dagger class (presumably for Thief/Ninja), while Gladiator has daggers already, right?

Weapon type has absolutely nothing to do with your Class, the weapon does, but just that. They could make a Lance that when equipped puts you on Conjurer. They wouldn't because that would be silly, but they can make a whole host of new swords which put you on, lets say, Fencer.

Case and point, I already have two of the same weapon types which put me on different Jobs; Omnilex and The Veil Of Wiyu. The exact same can, and will be applied for any new Class which reuses a preexisting weapon type.

[Melithea]

If two different classes have the same weapon type, how would that work?

They really did develop themselves into a corner with the current class/armoury system. There's basically no second job that will work for Pugilist, for example. But as to your question: there would just be new swords with a fundamental category of, say, "Mystic Knight's Arm" that would distinguish it from Gladiator's Arms even though they were both swords in form.

Case and point, I already have two of the same weapon types which put me on different Jobs; Omnilex and The Veil Of Wiyu.

To build on this, these are both "Arcanist's Grimoires" that build on the ACN job and then rely on a job stone.