Dear weapon designers, books are the most boring weapon

[Raikai]

Interesting take considering a book in a real life can stop fatal/critical entry of a pointed blade, sharp edge, and even stop a high caliber bullet in its tracks, while the spine of a book can quite literally smash a skull, and incave a person's face. Remember, this example is a RL book. Fantasy books do all of that and can also weave enchantments, spells, and summon beings of untold strength to assist the caster.

What do you want a SCH/SMN to have? Books are friggin awesome as weapons.

I'm not saying or vouching for the extinction of books... but at least one a couple of rare cases of something outside of the box, given everyone else got it.

There's also an extensive list of alternative books styles (written by both myself and others across posts) that could be implemented. Or following your logic - as in tomes to weave enchantments - I wouldn't mind bland designs if they invested more into special effects specific for Summoners, which that case we have only a couple, like the book that pops out bahamut wings. Could it be an arcane diagram, a hologram egi (case for the allagan ones).

[Divinemights]

Dark Hold and Book of Vishanti says otherwise.

[Sighearth]

The reason I changed from sch to sge was basically the weapon. Been tired of using the same old books. They could add some flavor to it by simply adding more SFX. Why can't we hold the book floating with magic, or have the runes, letters, geometric shapes come out of the book when we use it. I love the Bahamut summon animation because it looks like we are actually using the book.

[GrizzlyTank]

Dunno what's worse, books or the dancer weapons.

For dancer they can go with pretty much any throwing weapon there is, but so far it's ring, ring, ring and more rings.

[Carin-Eri]

The reason I changed from sch to sge was basically the weapon. Been tired of using the same old books. They could add some flavor to it by simply adding more SFX. Why can't we hold the book floating with magic, or have the runes, letters, geometric shapes come out of the book when we use it. I love the Bahamut summon animation because it looks like we are actually using the book.

That actually does happen, in a fashion, with Tsukuyomi's Moonlit Grimoire:
(Not my pic - credit & thanks to Lilium Wolcott of Eorzea Collections)



A cresent moon floats just above the pages.