Quote Originally Posted by OmegaNovaios View Post
I didn't realize farmers were this badass, maybe I should consider a career change IRL.
Yes, because caricatures of warriors wielding absurd weapons automatically translates into "badass". If your only requirement for "badass" is that an artist is able to make a decent rendition of it, there's really no limit on what could be used by a class.

The only reason that people seem to assume that Death Knights should use a scythe is because of the traditional western view of Death as a Reaper. What people seem to forget about this is that scythes are not, nor have they ever been, weapons. They're farm implements, and Death carried one ("wielding" isn't really an appropriate term) because of the idea of reaping souls in the same manner that one reaped grain. Actual scythes were never used in combat, for good reasons: they're terrible weapons. The scythe that Death carried was purely symbolic. Using a scythe in combat is ludicrous; the only times they *were* used in combat, they were specifically modified to not be absurd by reforging the blade such that it was no longer perpendicular to the haft, at which point it is less of a scythe and more of a traditional polearm.

The only way for a scythe to not be a completely absurd choice for melee weapon (not to mention completely without precedent in the series outside of FFXI, which, as plenty of people are wont to tell you, is one of the absolute worst possible games to bring up as an example of good game design) would be for it to be wielded by a caster. I could see a *necromancer* class using a scythe, as a purely symbolic apparatus similar to the ACN books, CNJ wands/staves, and THM scepter/staves, but an actual class that gets into melee and wails on things with its weapon needs to use an *actual* weapon, not some absurd notion that got picked up and mutilated by popular/goth culture.