In regards to the shield you get a sword from Ifrit and Garuda, you get the shield from Titan. The only time they are treated as "1" is your relic in which case it's still 2 separate items 1 requiring 1 mist the other 2. This already is an advtage over every other job as far as gear prog. goes. You can get pld to 50 and get half your +1 in the same day. Also a new shield coming from the primals? even though it i90 as it might balance out better in certain situations. How about the fact that blm doesn't even get an i90 shield and the one in .dats is awful(unless you can materia it then it might be usable). You shoudn't be compairing war and plds allag wpns either as they have different gear sets to go with them you should be comparing allag sword + Holy Shield+1 vs cutana +1 and hs +1 vs Curtana +1 + allag shield vs Allag wpn and allag shield. But honestly your complaining because you have 2 lvl 90 shields and a usable i95 wpn where as blm has 0 - i90 shields, specializes in 2 handed staffs, and the i95 wpn is not even usable at all currently