Quote Originally Posted by PetiteMalFleur View Post
Long story short, the game was released before it was ready and it's things like that which got overlooked as a result.
Ah, I see. I did not know the weapons were originally lv90. But I also forgot that Extreme Primals only came in patch 2.1...Which means that for all of 2.0, BLMs had a lv90 one-handed weapon...and the best shield they could equip with it was, what, lv70? That really is a glaring oversight.

To the guy saying "BLM doesn't need shield"...well, no, they don't need block rate or whatever, but the one-handed weapon has lower stats than any two-handed weapon...so paladins, blms, and whms use the shield to make up the missing stats. For BLMs to not have gotten a shield must've put them at a slight disadvantage for sure.