Why are arcanists left handed?

[Jonnycbad]

Yeah, Dragoons are left handed. I'm versed with using spears and quarterstaffs in real life and I immediately noticed dragoons hold spears the opposite of how I would (as a righty). I think this is because some Dragoons/spear-wielders were lefties in FF games. Kain for example.

[Keddera_StormMoon]

When I open my book in the cuscenes - the last thing on my mind is if she's left or right handed.

- Draws book, points to page - "That's it, you've done screwed up. I'm putting you in my book of people who needs an arse whoopin' right here!"

[Sylvina]

As a left handed person I support left handed animations. also the beloved Legend of Zelda series featured left handed link until skyward sword ruined it.

[DeaconMoore]

As an arcanist you call forth from the aether an otherworldly being. Sure they seem cute and benign now but thats just how they get you to drop your guard. As you grow in power they begin subverting your will. One day you'll just be a puppet to the otherworldly creatures you thought you controlled. Basically you're doomed and will eventually go dark side, hence the left hand.

[Alestorm]

As an arcanist you call forth from the aether an otherworldly being. Sure they seem cute and benign now but thats just how they get you to drop your guard. As you grow in power they begin subverting your will. One day you'll just be a puppet to the otherworldly creatures you thought you controlled. Basically you're doomed and will eventually go dark side, hence the left hand.

So Eos has been evil the whole time! I knew it, but no one believed me.

[Soge01]

It's nice to know dragon and arcanist are left handed. Most of everything makes everyone right handed for some reason so I really appreciate the fact we have two job classes that represent left handed users irl.

[Sandpark]

It's nice to know dragon and arcanist are left handed. Most of everything makes everyone right handed for some reason so I really appreciate the fact we have two job classes that represent left handed users irl.

Dragoon is left handed because they need the right hand to "Penta Thrust", not sure about arcanist but maybe they read certain kinds of books and need a free right hand?

[Soge01]

Dragoon is left handed because they need the right hand to "Penta Thrust", not sure about arcanist but maybe they read certain kinds of books and need a free right hand?

Ah, I can see th Dragoon using their left hand for that reason. And Arcanist as Summoner, now that I think about it, I think does cast Ruin 3 with their right hand. Eh, still though, at least the left hand is being used fro something.

[Iscah]

Arcanists are awesome.

Left-handed people are awesome.

So.

As a left handed person I support left handed animations. also the beloved Legend of Zelda series featured left handed link until skyward sword ruined it.

That annoyed me so much! And just so it didn't "break the immersion" for right-handed players.

I played Skyward Sword left-handed (probably would have anyway, but now it was a matter of principle), and the only time I even thought about the difference was in cutscenes, because Link isn't supposed to be right-handed and just looks wrong like that.

In actual gameplay, you're not looking at him, you're looking past him at the enemy trying to kill him/you.

Meanwhile, the game doesn't care one bit about breaking your immersion by bringing you to a halt so robot-girl can tell you about the 87% chance of something blatantly obvious...


On an aside, it was a surprising learning curve using my right thumb to control movement - it seems like it should be the same motion as usual, and I often steer left/right in other games by turning the camera with the right stick while moving forward with the left. But it took some practice to be able to walk straight forward and not veer off to the left the whole time. Though it was also my first Wii game using the joystick controller, so maybe it's also partly due to it being held at a different angle to a normal two-handed controller.

[TaiyoShikasu]

Arcane magic is the work of the devil as is lefthandedness.