Quote Originally Posted by Exstal View Post
1) Katana / Great Katana isn't something you should assign to Ninja and Samurai. Ninja would be ninja knife/dagger/short sword whereas Samurai is just straight katana. Great Katana is an odd weapon which I believe shouldn't exist ever and left with the more ridiculous type jobs (ie Dark Knight) for that "cool" factor.
"Great" was simply the prefix used in XI to differentiate between the one and two-handed variants of different weapon types. Greatsword vs Sword, Greataxe vs Axe, you get the idea.

Great Katanas were the two-handed weapons used by SAM and modeled after the real life katana, while the Katanas were the one-handed weapons used by NIN and modeled after weapons like the wakizashi.