Dark Knight Dilemma

[Judge_Xero]

Welll....since it's deemed to be a Tank Class....
Looks like it's spun off DRK from the updated FF Tactics: War of the Lions.

If it was a DD class. A Death Scythe type weapon would probably work and be pretty cool.
(Magus type build from Chrono Trigger)

I'm pretty excited for it as a Tank. Will definitely have to get back into tanking when it's released.

[Klive]

I hate scythes. They are not weapons, they are farming tools. Yes, Death "wields" a scythe but that is b/c Death harvests, you know farming, souls. Souls are the crop and he is the farmer. Scythes are terrible weapons. The War Scythe is even just a improvised weapon of peasants. The blade was turned 90 degree to make it usable in combat.

I like my death dealing knight of darkness to use a functional weapon, not a impracticable stylized one.

[Baithin]

OP do has a point. Scythe in XI has weapon skill grade of A+ for DK.

On the contrary, the only job with weapon skill grade A+ for great sword are Rune Fencer, which is released on the latest expansion Adoulin, Such a shame GS became primary choice for DK, which might eliminate any possibility for having Rune Fencer job in XIV.



And btw, Rune Fencer are a tank job in XI, while DK kinda more into DD-related. But I guess different game means different style.

If Rune Fencer or something similar is ever introduced in XIV, I think I'd prefer them having rapiers... You know, for fencing. Regardless of whether or not they're a tank or dps role. They could share the weapon with Red Mage, assuming they share the same base class.

And OP... While I do agree with you about wanting tons of new jobs, it has been said that they don't want to add a bunch of jobs just for the sake of it. They don't want gimmicky jobs - they want to introduce jobs that will fill a specific niche that we don't already have.

I'm all for gimmicks though, personally. =P

[Anova]

To be fair to the OP, there were scythes made specifically for war. The blade for those were not mounted perpendicularly like the farming scythes but were parallel. It resembled a polearm or naginata in that regard, so the aesthetics are somewhat different.

Anyway, I don't have a particular preference. I think greatsword is a suitable weapon for the ffxiv dark knight though. Botanists already use scythes, and lancers use halberds/polearms. I can understand why the team wouldn't want to double their workload to create new models, names, and animations like they did for daggers with gladiator.

[VargasVermillion]

The only game DRK ever used a scythe was FFXI. Before that it used swords and even shields, to add variety they went with greatsword as that was one of the requested weapon types.

Either way a scythe is a stupid weapon, especially the sickle kind that are actually made for farming. Only thing I'll ever accept to use a scythe is death.

[Zophar]

Why always so much love for such a silly, tacky, and grossly impractical weapon? Scythe is for threshing wheat or bad characters in bad anime. That's about it.

[Keideki]

I feel like when you stick to more realistic physics that the scythe is not a good weapon. However, if you are willing to let your physics go a little wild with movement then the weapon can work just fine. Think Soul Eater (anime), it works fine there because the physics of the world are far more loose. FFXIV may have high jumping dragoons and magic casters but over all most of the animations seem to behave close enough to real world physics, at least enough to make using a scythe seem silly.

[AdlaiT]

OP do has a point. Scythe in XI has weapon skill grade of A+ for DK.

On the contrary, the only job with weapon skill grade A+ for great sword are Rune Fencer, which is released on the latest expansion Adoulin, Such a shame GS became primary choice for DK, which might eliminate any possibility for having Rune Fencer job in XIV.



And btw, Rune Fencer are a tank job in XI, while DK kinda more into DD-related. But I guess different game means different style.

FFXI Bahamut server? That name looks familiar... haha.

[BobbinT]

FFXI Bahamut server? That name looks familiar... haha.

yup. I'm guessing you're from there too. ^^

[Miyaka_Vigiles]

Love Great Sword, not a fan of scythe. Very excited for Dark Knight as I always play tank in MMOs.

I hope having 1-hand sword and 2-hand sword doesn't affect the quality of the weapon's looks.