Where are our grips!

[Cairdeas]

A long time ago in Final Fantasy XI, People complained that the shield slot looked boring being empty if you were weilding a two handed weapon. In response, we got these things called Grips.

Basically the lore is, they were custom leather or other fabric strips that wrapped around the handle of your two handed weapon and gave you a bonus.

More Strength, More Critical Hit, More Intelligence etc. These were awesome replacements when your character can't wear a Shield.

So why wasn't this extremely original option (I hadn't seen it in any MMO or Single Player game before or since.) replicated over to FFXIV? Come on SE. Give us our Grips!

I dunno. Grips sound sort of complicated, just like two individual earrings. The hello kitty hoard this game has been designed for wouldn't understand grips, it would just confuse their fragile little minds causing them to just create support tickets asking SE explain what grips are for.

The difference is you are not adding a second slot like you would for the second earring, You are using an already available slot (Shield) to allow non-shield available classes to use an empty slot.