Dear weapon designers, books are the most boring weapon

[Raikai]

I see. Interesting.
Book designs CAN be varied. But they don't seem to be too interested in venturing too much outside of the standard box form.

here are some of it

That book shape on the left is beautiful. Again, departing from a square shape puts a lot character into the design, and we have very few books that go beyond that.

Another interesting concept would be investing into really robust spell effects instead of the book itself. Think like a plain book, but when opened an ethereal Egi would pop from the pages? Or the book's diagrams are actually a rift and an Arhiman voidsent pops from there and keeps flying above the opened book? Due to the casting animations, probably this one would necessitate the creation of a new book type model, to allow an attached element (like RDM's focus that is animated separately)... Well, Monks got THREE distinct weapon templates (as seen in the contest itself), I don't see why other jobs can't have that as well.

[hagare]

That book shape on the left is beautiful. Again, departing from a square shape puts a lot character into the design, and we have very few books that go beyond that.

Another interesting concept would be investing into really robust spell effects instead of the book itself. Think like a plain book, but when opened an ethereal Egi would pop from the pages? Or the book's diagrams are actually a rift and an Arhiman voidsent pops from there and keeps flying above the opened book? Due to the casting animations, probably this one would necessitate the creation of a new book type model, to allow an attached element (like RDM's focus that is animated separately)... Well, Monks got THREE distinct weapon templates (as seen in the contest itself), I don't see why other jobs can't have that as well.

The square start should be a guide, not a necessity.
I say if it has a spine and a place to hold it with fingers, it can work as a book.

And yes, your idea would work as well.
The only problem would be how it works with all the animations in regards to how the weapon is held.

[Raikai]

The square start should be a guide, not a necessity.
I say if it has a spine and a place to hold it with fingers, it can work as a book.

And yes, your idea would work as well.
The only problem would be how it works with all the animations in regards to how the weapon is held.

Yeah, because the hovering entity would look really bad being attached to the axis of the book, being moved alongside its animations, that's why to execute this they would need to create a Type-B weapon model.