Duel Wielding In FFXIV: ARR

[Fated]

I hope dual wielding is restricted to one class so everyone can rage about it on Loadstone.

[Doho]

just as long as they don't complain about it on the Lodestone

[XavierBlade]

I wanna dual wield two Bravura's because I'm Galka. Make it happen.

[Bowen]

I wanna dual wield two Bravura's because I'm Galka. Make it happen.

Silly hyur, there is no such thing as a Galka. Are you sure you don't mean Roegadyn?

[XavierBlade]

Silly hyur, there is no such thing as a Galka. Are you sure you don't mean Roegadyn?

How many relics do you have? It's Galka.

[Azurus]

I keep hoping to hear that they are un binding classes from weapons because I would like classes to use different weapons like in ffxi how a paladin could equip greatswords or a warrior could use greataxe or dual wield axes. I don't know I like choices lol...and where's my gosh darn dark knight!

[Shougun]

How many relics do you have? It's Galka.

I made it into somones sig.

Lol, I had to click the quote button to see when I said that XD.

On topic:

Duel wielding will either introduce:

A) grips/other side two handed objects for two handed balance

B) Duel wield weapons are only one item (1 item fills two slots but only gives stats once)

C) Cause loads of imbalance as duel wielders quadra meld both weapons and two handers can only meld one weapon.

[indira]

i wanna duel wield bows on bard lol

[NefGP]

I'd love for a Samurai to dual wield a GK and Sheath, what an utterly interesting idea

It would be cool to have it as a sub-weapon, similar to Grips for 2 handers in XI. They could even add in special Iai-strike abilities for SAM that require one to be equipped.

As for dual-wielding, it damn well better be 1 weapon in the main and 1 in the sub slot. Part of the point of DW is to be able to equip 2 different weapons for stat boosts etc.


Speaking of Ninja though, I'm curious to see how Throw & Shuriken will work this time, given they are removing ammunition & consumable throwing items. Also, Ninjutsu had better be MP-based and not tool-based like in XI, or NIN will just be ridiculously OP due to the removal of recasts. Please SE, make NIN a DD/Enfeebler again and not a blink tank... >_<


EDIT: Well, at least we don't have to worry about abusing Haste in this game like in XI, so DW won't be quite so degenerative (and hopefully neither will be Utsusemi).

[Luhy]

I want to dual-wield books.

Mob attacks > show them Pin-up pullouts of Garuda and Siren > mob gets Charmed