New Jobs Expections In 7.0

[ChazNatlo]

Fire/ice/lightning is done to death and boring. BLM made it about as fresh and interesting as the holy trinity can be. Hell, SAM made a three-element cycle about as interesting/unique as a rune-blade could possibly be.

We don't need a rune-blade. We already have:

* Fire/lightning blade - GNB
* Ice blade - SAM
* Holy blade - PLD
* Darkness blade - DRK
* All elements - RDM *and* NIN

And each of these are way more flavorful alone than they ever would be shoved into one-third of a runeblade's rotation. Not to mention the fact that we have multiple elemental effects for all of these weapons through glamours. It's just...a totally empty and meaningless concept to define a runeblade by elemental affinities in FF XIV.

Fair enough. Agree to disagree. I mean, I'm not exactly married to Fire Ice Lightning, but I suspect by the rest of your post that "infusing your weapon with energy" is a no sell on you since I mean, Darkness isn't exactly an element but you included it.

[SeverianLyonesse]

Fair enough. Agree to disagree. I mean, I'm not exactly married to Fire Ice Lightning, but I suspect by the rest of your post that "infusing your weapon with energy" is a no sell on you since I mean, Darkness isn't exactly an element but you included it.

Your suspicion is correct, given that, again, infusing the weapon is already something we very much have with Samurai. Be it a single element or a cycle of elements, there really isn't anything that already hasn't been implemented in the game when it comes to elemental swords. As I was considering your proposal, I thought maybe there could be some design for a lightning-blade--thunder/reverb, shock/paralysis, light/blind, electromagnetism--but so much of the superficial elemental aesthetic has been taken by GNB. Same with a firebrand. GNB seems like it was the final nail in the coffin for a spell-blade, and--again--between it and SAM, we already kind of have two pretty pure iterations of a spellblade.