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

[CatStarPrime]

Letting DoW have blunt weapons and slashing weapons would change your loadout requirements. You'd have to determine what type of damage a boss, say, would be more susceptible. And bring the right weapon to the fight. And bring the right team members to augment your major damage type.

Since "Blunt" and "Slashing" is probably just a characteristic in weapon coding, it probably wouldn't be much problem to allow PLD, WAR, DRK to carry and equip both types.

But it'd be interesting to see how team compositions and fight balance would change!

[Mysticdraggon]

they keep holding onto different weapon styles/glamours in general as if they are saving them for later expansion or for a new class.

for example, i wish the game would finally add a duel-katana for ninja. not mini-katanas (Wakizashi), tantos, or whatever the heck the "Genji Phurpa" are supposed to be....i mean, WHAT kind of weapon are those things, Maces!!?

[Krotoan]

they keep holding onto different weapon styles/glamours in general as if they are saving them for later expansion or for a new class.

for example, i wish the game would finally add a duel-katana for ninja. not mini-katanas (Wakizashi), tantos, or whatever the heck the "Genji Phurpa" are supposed to be....i mean, WHAT kind of weapon are those things, Maces!!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%ABla_(Buddhism)
Ritual daggers. I don't know if you've seen the flying dagger in "The Shadow" but that thing is one.

[Mysticdraggon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%ABla_(Buddhism)
Ritual daggers. I don't know if you've seen the flying dagger in "The Shadow" but that thing is one.

ok, thank you, but if the devs can go this deep in creative weapon design, why have not one of them thought of a simple duel wield katana. all we are getting (or at least commonly getting) are daggers, cleavers, wakizashi, and apparently ritual knifes. the only weapon that ever cam close was the Ohojo, which is my main glamour right now, but the edgy and cleaver-like design still bothers me.

but seriously, the Genji Phurpa design was really bugging me, so thanks for the information.

[Krotoan]

ok, thank you, but if the devs can go this deep in creative weapon design, why have not one of them thought of a simple duel wield katana. all we are getting (or at least commonly getting) are daggers, cleavers, wakizashi, and apparently ritual knifes. the only weapon that ever cam close was the Ohojo, which is my main glamour right now, but the edgy and cleaver-like design still bothers me.

but seriously, the Genji Phurpa design was really bugging me, so thanks for the information.

you're welcome, I owned one a long time ago. =]

I'm guessing design wise, anything past a certain length would clip with lots of the animations, that and ninjas usually had short swords... however we do have those SUPER LONG monk fist dagger things. So who knows? Double katanas would be cool.

[alimdia]

MIN has a sledgehammer so it doesn't prevent a new job from using hammer, and the fact that MNK is the only blunt job is something I still consider a problem, a new hammer job would add some synergy with MNK.

[MaethusXion]

There are a couple of DRG weapons in the game that are effectively this - one from the Eastern Journey promotion and one that's somewhere between lv.50-60 crafted/levelling gear IIRC?

The Mythrite Pugil Stick, plus I think there was a dungeon variation? We called it the Q-Tip.

Letting DoW have blunt weapons and slashing weapons would change your loadout requirements. You'd have to determine what type of damage a boss, say, would be more susceptible. And bring the right weapon to the fight. And bring the right team members to augment your major damage type.

Since "Blunt" and "Slashing" is probably just a characteristic in weapon coding, it probably wouldn't be much problem to allow PLD, WAR, DRK to carry and equip both types.

But it'd be interesting to see how team compositions and fight balance would change!

Too bad the whole Slashing(DRK/WAR/PLD/SAM/NIN) vs Piercing(DRG/BRD/MCH/RDM melee?) vs Blunt(MNK) isn't like the "elemental" magic that BLM/RDM/WHM get where its just flavor text. It'd probably take a decent bit of coding to redo it, on top of making sure they don't break something else with it, so IF they ever dropped the weapon types and went to straight Physical vs Magical damage, we'd probably not see that til at least 6.0.

There's also things to consider, like what others have said in this thread about how jobs have only one true weapon type (BLM/WHM ARR wands/shields excluded).

[Laerune]

Lets hope the next tank or healer class will be Green Mage, they are known for having hammers and maces.

[Felis]

Since "Blunt" and "Slashing" is probably just a characteristic in weapon coding, it probably wouldn't be much problem to allow PLD, WAR, DRK to carry and equip both types.

It is also the animation.
To pierce an enemy with a hammer as if you have a sword in the hand is silly.

The devs should give the hammer it's own skills with own animations, and put it into a new job soulstone

[Kohdo]

Squeenix gib warhammer plz