Idea: Merge PLD Sword and Shield into a Single Item

[Iscah]

It's also the only job with two arms post-ARR meaning you still have to pay for an extra item -- the PLD tax.

Yet are they priced the exact same as all other tome items(?), except you pay twice(?). Once for the Sword, once for the shield, ending with double the cost and Needing the same amount of Special Tomestone(from raids).(?)

[...] they are still separate crafted items and are listed separately on the marketboard and different amounts of supply. E.g, on my server is the Diadochos PLD sword is 70k which is line with 70-100k for most of the weapons, but the shield is another 60k on top of that, making the PLD with its sword+shield combination the most expensive of the jobs by about 30%. That's where I come up with the concept of the PLD tax. That's been a fairly consistent experience for me.

The "tax" you're describing is completely player-invented for crafted item sales and does not exist for items where the game devs set the price. There is no "double the cost"; the same cost is split across the two. If anything, for glamour purposes later on, it's a discount if you only want one of the things and not both.

For examples at current endgame:

• Current tome weapons cost 500+tome, but the sword costs 350+tome and the shield is 150 with no tomestone required -- I assume this is why it gets grouped with the armour and not the "weapon exchange" tab as a holdover from previous iterations where one was a purchase and the other was bartering.

• Trial weapons normally cost 10 totems but the sword costs 7 and the shield costs 3.

• At the "augment your crafted gear" stall a weapon normally is worth 5 tokens, but the sword is 3 and shield is 2.

• Level 80 weapons from the vendor in Sharlayan cost 45,417 gil but the sword is 30,278 and the shield is 15,139.