No More Daggers!

[Epsil]

Bye bye Fake Rogue/Thief glamour look ; ;

[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.

[Cherie]

what do Macuahuitls have to do with pirates?

It was just a funny line from the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" that I remember.

Captain Jack Sparrow's sword gets taken away... "Well, I half expected it to be made of wood!"

I realize that Macuahuitls are completely different though.

[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.

[Algin]

IF the spathas were good for Byzantine cataphracts and gladii were good enough for roman legions, well, they could be good for paladins/guardians too

[Felis]

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?

Yes. It was the Tanaka team that gave Gladiator daggers. Maybe because they are like swords one-handed blade weapons.
Yoshida talked already during 1.0 about removing daggers from the gladiator to give them thief (now rogue) if the class come someday.

[TheRogueX]

Dunno, I guess it doesn't matter... a bastard sword though? That's the name of one of the replacement blades. It seems a bit much to use one handed.... lol

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

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

afaik, we're not losing Spatha. I honestly wouldn't mind if they kept the Gladii, but I'm glad they're getting rid of daggers. They just seemed so out of place.

[TheGrimace]

I... I liked the knives, though... sad day for me.

[Jamez82]

Please tell me only rogues are using daggers and not ninjas.

Ninjas with daggers? Really?

[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