Dark Knight Dilemma

[Reynhart]

Unless we fight wheat-elementals in the future, Scythe is not a suitable weapon for combat.

As for the 22 jobs in FFXI, it's indeed pretty impressive...except the balance was absolutely destroyed early on, and each patch's purpose was to ruin previously overpowered jobs while boosting useless ones.

Also, its still possible to have a Greatsword wielding DPS class, or something similar (Samurai?). Scholar and Summoner both use books, you know.

Especially when Katanas are far more different from swords than books are from...well, other books

[Nheir]

Unless we fight wheat-elementals in the future...

Never actually played XI so I never heard about the balancing issues. 22 jobs may have just been too many. :/ Hopefully if that's attempted again this dev team can handle it better.

[Neyasa]

FF11 let you turn jobs into different things that you like. Was skilled based and if you sucked you sucked and players instantly saw it. If you were good, you were good that is the difference. This game is like DC Universe Online where its gear based and not skill based. So people get away with playing awful and can blame others because of not having it skill based. Players get away with not using all abilities and cross abilities melee being the main ones that do this. However, they expect mages to have everything together.

[Galgarion]

Unless we fight wheat-elementals in the future, Scythe is not a suitable weapon for combat.

As for the 22 jobs in FFXI, it's indeed pretty impressive...except the balance was absolutely destroyed early on, and each patch's purpose was to ruin previously overpowered jobs while boosting useless ones.

Especially when Katanas are far more different from swords than books are from...well, other books

Bah, sez I. Katana are just curvy razors with pretty sheaths. Their reputation is overblown. A dull bastard sword could equal their cutting power.

[Hrist_Althea]

Bah,sez I. Katana are just curvy razors with pretty sheaths. Their reputation is overblown. A dull bastard sword could equal their cutting power.

Looks like you don't know anything about metallurgy. Please do some research.

[Galgarion]

Looks like you don't know anything about metallurgy. Please do some research.

Why would I do that, when I could just watch youtube?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKvRHaJ2w6w

Starting at 0:35 "I think the Katana is a beautiful weapon, a fine weapon. But it's been exaggerated." Then to prove his point, at 0:55 he performs tameshigiri with a dull bastard sword.