Quote Originally Posted by Shippuu View Post
DRK in FFXI could still equip and use all of it's iconic weaponry. You're trying to compare apples and oranges with that and you know it. Again, Samurai in Final Fantasy games are not masters of a wide variety of weapons.
And DRK also always used to sacrifice health in order to power its abilities. Now it does the exact opposite. Bards use bows instead of harps. People complained for a while, as though it were the end of the world, but eventually they got over it. It will be unlikely that Samurai also gets a Zeninage ability that actually costs gil. But things change, and there's extremely rich historical source material to work with that could fit perfectly into a wide variety of concepts in a game that has trouble with homogeniety.