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    Quote Originally Posted by SweetPete View Post
    So more like a glam specifically for dancer?
    Everything is glamour. If they want to make a glamour specifically for dancer, they just make the dancer weapon for set X have whatever innovative design they want to give it.

    But as has already been mentioned, I think they just got overenthusiastic early in the concept design, thinking they could have "all kinds" of throwing weapons like knives, but have since realised that the animations only really work with chakrams and circular weapons, though still drawing on a few different design concepts like shuriken and wind-fire wheels - not that the fighting style has much to do with how any of them work, as far as I can tell.

    I think the animations limit it as well. Sometimes your character is wielding the physical chakrams, but they transition into glowing rings that are part of the battle animation and may not be showing the actual weapons at all.
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    Iiiiiiiiiiit's Meeeee
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
    Everything is glamour. If they want to make a glamour specifically for dancer, they just make the dancer weapon for set X have whatever innovative design they want to give it.
    Kinda like how there's a PLD weapon that looks like a pickaxe?
    Or a WAR one that looks like a hammer?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ItMe View Post
    Kinda like how there's a PLD weapon that looks like a pickaxe?
    Or a WAR one that looks like a hammer?
    Like that, yeah. As long as it's the right size and shape for the animations to make sense, they can make it look like anything they want.
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    Yeah well there's a difference between a melee animation and the dancer animations. You don't even gotta change anything about PLD's animation between hammers and swords. But DNC's animation clearly involves movement with projectiles that only really make sense if they are shaped in a way that can "logically" return to the thrower. At most maybe they could make them boomerangs, but with like knives it would seem like DNC is psychic.
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    Cyrillo Rongway
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stepjam View Post
    But DNC's animation clearly involves movement with projectiles that only really make sense if they are shaped in a way that can "logically" return to the thrower. At most maybe they could make them boomerangs, but with like knives it would seem like DNC is psychic magic.
    They are. All jobs use magic to do their thing, even the Disciples of War, Land, and Hand.
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    Titania Chevalier
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stepjam View Post
    But DNC's animation clearly involves movement with projectiles that only really make sense if they are shaped in a way that can "logically" return to the thrower. At most maybe they could make them boomerangs, but with like knives it would seem like DNC is psychic.
    I mean, look at the Endwalker trailer. Sage is running around with floating Nouliths, why not give DNC some magic daggers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
    Everything is glamour. If they want to make a glamour specifically for dancer, they just make the dancer weapon for set X have whatever innovative design they want to give it.

    But as has already been mentioned, I think they just got overenthusiastic early in the concept design, thinking they could have "all kinds" of throwing weapons like knives, but have since realised that the animations only really work with chakrams and circular weapons, though still drawing on a few different design concepts like shuriken and wind-fire wheels - not that the fighting style has much to do with how any of them work, as far as I can tell.

    I think the animations limit it as well. Sometimes your character is wielding the physical chakrams, but they transition into glowing rings that are part of the battle animation and may not be showing the actual weapons at all.
    Exaclty that. They can think outside of the box with the current concept, like:

    - Actual fans
    - Shurikens (which there's 1 chakram model pretty close to that)
    - Some Yuffie weapons
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    Last edited by Raikai; 03-21-2021 at 07:27 AM.

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    Noah Orih
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raikai View Post
    Exaclty that. They can think outside of the box with the current concept, like:

    - Actual fans
    - Shurikens (which there's 1 chakram model pretty close to that)
    - Some Yuffie weapons
    Like Yuffie's paper crane weapon?
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    Swygnebb Ahldhyltsyn
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raikai View Post
    Exaclty that. They can think outside of the box with the current concept, like:

    - Actual fans
    - Shurikens (which there's 1 chakram model pretty close to that)
    - Some Yuffie weapons
    Rinoa's Blaster Edges (such as Shooting Star) could work as well.
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    Forever waiting on *new* Egis/summons (e.g. Ramuh-Egi).