New Grand Company Gear (04/23/2012)

[Starkbeaumont]

"New weapon recipes planned for patch 1.22 are for gladiator, pugilist, marauder, and lancer classes only. Weapons for other classes are planned for release sometime after patch 1.22a."

I'm reading this as exclusive to the class, and not the job. Which sorta makes sense. I know they mentioned class-specific gear coming out at some point.

well, the bow user is wearing darklight equip, which points toward those weapons being equipable by jobs as well. though a preview is a preview.

[Colino]

I'm pretty sure this whole "class exclusive" thing is bonkers because the Bow is a harp/bow much like the BRD AF weapon... So only allowing ARC to use it would make absolutely no sense.

[Ramsey]

well, the bow user is wearing darklight equip, which points toward those weapons being equipable by jobs as well. though a preview is a preview.

Unless they finally realized there is no particularly compelling reason to prevent us from using Darklight on classes... Or that's the new crafted gear sporting the same model? (Doubtful, but they did mention Darksteel... I'd laugh. Though I really hope we see legit. Darksteel armor, though I guess partially I don't hope that, because I'll be pissed if it's class only!)

I'm pretty sure this whole "class exclusive" thing is bonkers because the Bow is a harp/bow much like the BRD AF weapon... So only allowing ARC to use it would make absolutely no sense.

No it's not? There's nothing even remotely harp-like about it. Just because it expands/contracts does not make it a harp.

[Colino]

No it's not? There's nothing even remotely harp-like about it. Just because it expands/contracts does not make it a harp.

I dunno man.

The way it folds looks a lot like the BRD AF which is already in-game. Also looks like there's strings there, just like the AF.

Then again those could be arrows as well, it's hard to tell.

[RockVolnutt]

"New weapon recipes planned for patch 1.22 are for gladiator, pugilist, marauder, and lancer classes only. Weapons for other classes are planned for release sometime after patch 1.22a."

I'm reading this as exclusive to the class, and not the job. Which sorta makes sense. I know they mentioned class-specific gear coming out at some point.

No offense, but I'm pretty sure you're reading it the wrong way.
It said that at the bottom as a disclaimer, NOT for the fact that the gear will be class exclusive, but to illustrate that in 1.22 the recipes that will be released are for gla, pug, mrd, and lnc only, and by "only" they mean it's a partial list of items.
Meaning the other classes will get their weapons in 1.22a.
Otherwise the wording would read "are exclusive to classes only"