SMN/SCH & BLM/WHM weapons should be glamour-compatible between jobs

[Khryseis_Astra]

Are we for sure this won't be the case? The way the slide was worded I feel like it might be possible that it'll happen. SMN/SCH for sure it'd be easy, but BLM/WHM I think are iffy since the battle stance/victory emotes are tied to weapons and BLM and WHM clearly use different versions of those emotes but SMN and SCH use the same. I guess we'll find out next month.

I feel like it won’t happen just so there’s no exceptions across the board, because really only SMN/SCH could get away with this, having the same weapon models. As a SMN main who never uses her free SCH lol, I don’t know if all their other animations for attacks and such are exactly the same or not. BLM/WHM, despite having very similar weapons, definitely hold and move with those weapons differently.

Maybe this would inspire them to make “replica” series of weapons eventually, that could be used by classes that are similar to each other. Kinda like how they had a few different versions of Gaia-inspired weapons, but those were cash shop. I would really love to see more wands and staves added, but I’m also hoping someday we get a caster who uses wands as their main weapon too.

[CCheshire]

Are we for sure this won't be the case? The way the slide was worded I feel like it might be possible that it'll happen. SMN/SCH for sure it'd be easy, but BLM/WHM I think are iffy since the battle stance/victory emotes are tied to weapons and BLM and WHM clearly use different versions of those emotes but SMN and SCH use the same. I guess we'll find out next month.

Not really. I know SE calls them "canes" vs "rods/staves," but they are still both in the same staves category, as in they don't change beyond the casting animations, and it's already possible using TPT to switch them around now. It's not like I'm asking to switch the RDM foil with the PLD sword, which wouldn't be possible atm.

[KhujaRela]

I'm not sure about the difficulties, but I agree, I don't play BLM and I just hope I could use some of their staffs .:') in the end, they are all staffs... and some are the same model just recolors (or even dyeable so they can look the same). It's true they can have some with "vibes" of dps/healer, but anyway, with removing glam restrictions just why not?

[GrizzlyTank]

There do be a certain overlap with some weapons. Like PLD and all DOL/DOH items.

NIN/DNC could be a fun swap as well, though would need some adjustments to avoid floating items.

[Rithy255]

I agree, This would be a small but nice thing.

Though ultimately I wish we didn't have this odd system of locking weapons to jobs, unlike most other games where Jobs can have different sort of weapons it's very bland for customization. But that's a task that would take way too much resources when we got a lot more pressing issues like job design itself.

[Iscah]

Not really. I know SE calls them "canes" vs "rods/staves," but they are still both in the same staves category, as in they don't change beyond the casting animations, and it's already possible using TPT to switch them around now. It's not like I'm asking to switch the RDM foil with the PLD sword, which wouldn't be possible atm.

They're not "both in the same staves category" though – there's no "staves" category at all, only "conjurer's two-handed arms" and "thaumaturge's two-handed arms". So it's unlikely that the game will recognise them as interchangeable even if they physically should be.

[Mewi]

Based on the wording of the letter slide, it does give me the impression that at the least SCH/ACN/SMN will have glammable weapons. I really hope so also as my main SCH/SMN glams have identical books with different color schemes that I'd like to change The animations between the two jobs are also identical as far as I can tell.

As for WHM and BLM... I think there may be additional coding involved in these two as both have different animations. But I would love it! So many BLM staffs look like they should have been for WHM and vice versa lol.