Straight Swords for Samurai?

[Tsiron]

Occurred to me just now though, they had the perfect opportunity to diversify Samurai's arsenal with Shadowbringers... The First's equivalent of the East is long gone, so aside from a stray antique or two it makes no sense that there would be "katanas" dropping as loot, while historically a lot of Norvrandt (especially Voeburt) was shown to have been more traditionally "fantasy", with kingdoms and princesses and knights etc. so they could've conceivably come up with and used two-handed longswords. The Crystarium Samurai Blade almost looks like it could've been one, even...

Was thinking about this again and I'm still disappointed it either never occurred to them, or it did but they decided against it...

[Theodric_Thorne]

Was thinking about this again and I'm still disappointed it either never occurred to them, or it did but they decided against it...

If only they'd done that, then I wouldn't be so anxious about the results of the Weapon Design Contest. We could have had an expansion full of non-traditional SAM weapon options (aside from the relics) just to change things up. The Crystarium Samurai Blade was the only good example we got and even then it's still a saber, just a much better-looking one than its predecessors.