Artifact Armors!

[Lilith]

No wai, the strings on a banjo are much closer together, absolutely not like on the image.
I mean look at the spacing between the 4 strings ... it's a UKULELE.
You know it, and you love it!

[syntaxlies]

tranformers, harps in disguise.

i heard the big ax turns into a stand up base.

[Colino]

tranformers, hawaiian cordophones in disguise.

fixed that for you good sir.

[ChronicalSin]

Or it's just a new instrument concieved by SE.

If chocobo's came out for the first time ever. And people would argue about it like they do now about this "harp" saying stuff like"NO ITS NOT A CHICKEN!, look at the beak!"

It could be something new all together that they just made up.
One thing's for sure, it is most likely some kind of music device.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

In fact you're all mistaken, can't you see this outside of the lens of musical instruments ? Jobs are meant to be for aiding in parties, and what better way to aide your comrades in battle than be cooking up some tasty morsels on the fly!

That is obviously a portable grill attached to that bow! I would sure love me some grilled dodo while chasing down thems beastmen! mmm mmm

[LlenCoram]

I just had an apostrophe!

It's been confirmed as a transformer, but who ever said it only had one transformation?!‽ I've come to realise our folly.

It's a bow.

It transforms primarily into a ukulele.

It can also transform into a grill. But what are you going to grill, I ask?

This is the big secret. It can also transform into a gill net for catching sharks!

Genius SE. Make this happen, please.

[Chinook]

It's definitely a bass guitar, jugding by size of strings.

[OMEGA_HACK]

It transforms into a trumpet guys >.>

[Velhart]

Make it a saxophone weapon, it has been done!

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[Deminia]

I'm still baffled at how people only notice the harp part of that bow. the other half is a dagger. look close. I'm going to assume that the bow can pull apart for music and close ranged combat. But if you ask me, that is a fusion weapon, and I like it.

I thought the same when I first saw it - the part about it being a dagger and some sort of string instrument on the bow itself.

I have thought for a while that the way they might implement advanced jobs within the current weapon locked armory system is to allow you to dual wield. The combination of weapons would result in a transformation of a GLD to a Paladin, for example. It looks like the Paladin weapon is also a two part weapon - a smaller sword melded together with a larger blade, forming the huge weapon he is holding. It could also just be his sword is overlapping a very thin and pointy shield though. We'll have to wait and see.

On another note - I don't understand why it would be so horrible for ARC to be tied to Bard. After all in FFXI, Bards were one of the most sought after pulling jobs. Like to pull with arrows and deal damage? You went with Ranger. Like to pull with songs and provide party support? You played Bard. Why is this considered such a stretch here?