I know it shouldnt bother me but it does: no hammer weaps?

[Belhi]

Scythes would be tricky as they would probably require entirely new animations. On the other hand I could see them using the Axe animations for Hammers. I think the man issue is the issue with Slashing damage but technically they already have a metal club for DRKs so maybe that isn't as big a deal.

I think one of the reasons they limit weapon options is that most Jobs are identified by their weapons and no jobs share weapons. Even SCH and SMN use different books. It allows them to have clear variations for Job identities.

[Altena]

Scythes would be tricky as they would probably require entirely new animations. On the other hand I could see them using the Axe animations for Hammers. I think the man issue is the issue with Slashing damage but technically they already have a metal club for DRKs so maybe that isn't as big a deal.

I think one of the reasons they limit weapon options is that most Jobs are identified by their weapons and no jobs share weapons. Even SCH and SMN use different books. It allows them to have clear variations for Job identities.

Scythes would actually work perfectly fine for the DRK animations for the most part. There are a couple of animations that would look kind of strange but nothing all that crazy. Just add a small blade to the back of the Scythe and every slash would make sense.

[Dark-Saviour]

I think one of the reasons they limit weapon options is that most Jobs are identified by their weapons and no jobs share weapons. Even SCH and SMN use different books. It allows them to have clear variations for Job identities.

I liked the whole "Each class is defined by a different weapon type" concept from the start (and was annoyed at casters getting wands and staves because of it), but once we ended up with Paladin, Dark Knight, and Samurai all using different forms of swords, yet the latter 2 not branching from Gladiator, I don't really know how to feel at this point. :-(

And honestly, though it might not be a popular idea, I'd like to see them just merge Mind and Int at this point and/or allow crossover for all of the (non-artifact/relic) Grimoires. As a rule, weapons should be class-defined rather than job defined (except for the jobs that [unfortunately] ignore the class system, obviously).

Dark knights have two club options, one from PvP, and the other from the Gold Saucer. Every job that uses a 2-handed weapon will be able to get a scythe whenever the Edda glamour set that was datamined in 4.0(1?) becomes obtainable.

Bonus points if they make it work for Bard. >_>

[Valinis]

Scythes would be tricky as they would probably require entirely new animations. On the other hand I could see them using the Axe animations for Hammers. I think the man issue is the issue with Slashing damage but technically they already have a metal club for DRKs so maybe that isn't as big a deal.

I think one of the reasons they limit weapon options is that most Jobs are identified by their weapons and no jobs share weapons. Even SCH and SMN use different books. It allows them to have clear variations for Job identities.

The reason they limit weapon options is because it's too much work to make multiple weapons. SE are as tight as possible with resources in this game, if you haven't realized. BLM and WHM used to have 1 hand options a long time ago before they decided it was too much work. It's lazy but it's cheap and that's what's important to the XIV team.

[Dameron]

BLM and WHM used to have 1 hand options a long time ago before they decided it was too much work.

Actually, SE removed one-hand options for BLM and WHM because a lot of BLM and WHM mains didn't want to have to collect a one-hand weapon and a shield when they could just collect one staff. Unlike Paladin weapons today, those items did not drop together.

[Valinis]

Actually, SE removed one-hand options for BLM and WHM because a lot of BLM and WHM mains didn't want to have to collect a one-hand weapon and a shield when they could just collect one staff. Unlike Paladin weapons today, those items did not drop together.

If that was the reason they could have just made them drop together as you said. They stopped it because it meant making a staff, a wand and a shield for classes that didn't really "need" a shield like PLD. I was a BLM main in 2.0 and loved using a wand and shield, and would much rather weapon options other than staff, staff or a staff (the exact same weapon a WHM has).