Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
It sounds like Haruka is leaning toward having a dummy weapon in the offhand...This avoids several problems that would need to be dealt with if weapons were separate:
  • You won't have split loot (like when two PLDs in a party have to fight over a sword and shield).
  • You won't have to buy two tomestone weapons if you want to upgrade one (like PLD has to buy both the sword and the shield and upgrade them simultaneously with a single token)
  • Extra dev time doesn't need to be spent in the future designing extra weapons.
  • Extra space doesn't need to be spent on having two separate weapons where each other job only has one.
  • Weapon stats won't need to be balanced to account for splitting across two separate weapons.
This isn't really a problem for PLD though as the combined costs for any sword/shield combo is the same as a weapon for amy other job.
You just have it taking up 2 inventory slots instead of 1.