Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
The main thing, that I am sure most people have noticed, is that the weapon is only a "dagger" by name. FFXIV's Ninja is actually wielding a ninja short sword, or a ninjatō, as it is commonly called.
That's actually incorrect. We use the knife-like daggers because of Rogue, the Nin Katanas are used only a couple times. Daggers would be piercing if Rogue went into Thief, but since it went into Ninja, they made it slashing to accommodate the addition of Katanas in the roster, which was probably going to be more numerous than they have been.