No More Daggers!

[Aegis]

Bastard swords are shorter than longswords but longer than shortswords. They're single-handed weapons.

I believe they're actually longer than longswords but shorter than great/2h swords.

They could be used with either one or two hands due to the length of the pommel.

Edit: The internets agree with me

[Aeonblade]

Well this is the best news I have read all morning! Every time I get a weapon upgrade and it's a tiny little dagger that has no place on my tank I wept quietly to myself. No longer!

[Ryuukishi]

Didn't mind the daggers as much as the ugly cricket bats!

Once we sort out the wooden swords thing we can figure out why monks and archers equip masks that cover their eyes. Are they using the Force?

[Aegis]

I'm curious. I have a couple of dated daggers of poisoning, I think, and they aren't listed, so unless they just haven't bothered listing the dated items I guess I'm going to have another piece of exclusive glamour gear.

Now, if only I didn't hate the look of a GLA wielding a dagger ...

[Edli]

HUZZAH!

No more wimpy daggers and tiny gladii for our sword-wielding Gladiators and Paladins!

I find it strange that a gladiator can't use a gladius. Is where the term gladiator came from in the first place.

[AmyNeudaiz]

Sad we're losing the Spatha/Gladius swords because they actually do look pretty and are fitting of the "Gladiator" class.

[Elim]

Dear, SE,

Please make a Harry Potter class so that white mages don't have to use wands ever again.

Thank you.

Yours truly, Elim.

[Nahara]

It's a translation thing. The Japanese version simply calls it, "sword user", so daggers being part of their arsenal was out of place in the inception. Maybe it's a throwback from 1.0?

It is. I remember 1.0 Gladiators being advertised as masters of one-handed bladed weapons, but that was also back when Gladiators weren't also paired with shields (as Sentinel was a sub-class specifically for shields). They eventually got moved into being the sword-and-shield tank class we have now, but the daggers stayed. Now that Rogue/NIN is being released, they don't need daggers anymore.

Dear, SE,

Please make a Harry Potter class so that white mages don't have to use wands ever again.

Thank you.

Yours truly, Elim.

I pray for this all the time. I hate one-handed casting weapons and mage shields.

Bye bye Fake Rogue/Thief glamour look ; ;

That's actually really cool looking. But hey, now you can be an actual Rogue/Thief.

[Epsil]

Bye bye Fake Rogue/Thief glamour look ; ;

[Rhysati]

This is the peril of designing classes around their weapons. We can't have any actual variety due to the system. The glamour system didn't help us in this regard either because you still can't wear anything that your class cannot already wear. So if for RP/aesthetic reasons you wanted to wear say...ilvl 90 Bard gear and a dagger....well tough.

When they made classes defined by the weapons they have, they should have made all armor/clothes glamourable.