Gladiators. What are they now?

[Reika]

"Gladiators specialize in the handling of all manner of one–handed blades, from daggers to longswords, be they single– or double–edged, straight or curved. A defining characteristic of the guild is its emphasis on diverse combat tactics, training its members to bring their martial skills to bear in any situation.
As such, there are practitioners who marry sword with shield, seeking to defend their fellow companions. Others opt for an empty off hand, choosing instead to focus entirely on their sword arm. The gladiator’s proficiency with blades also extends to those hurled at range, such as throwing knives."

What ever happened to the bold part? I think gladiator attack potencies should be increased when there is no shield equipped. Will there be a time in the future when this happens?

Edit: And please do not bother mentioning the poll question about changing the rules of eorzia. There are things that shouldn't be changed and should start to be followed, unless you would like carnivorous Miqo'te who rule all the other food-slave races.

[Kazai]

I think GLA will most likely get an offensive role after the job system comes with patch 1.20. I know they will get PLD but when they expand the system they'll probably get things like maybe thief, bluemage(when combined with a magic class). We'll have to wait and see

[Azurak]

Why not do away with class system and let us expend our current in-game rank towards a job? For example, you have a 50 CON. Class system removed, you now must pick to be either a 50 BLM or 50 WHM. 50 THM is given the same choices, WHM or BLM.

[shadowstepper]

"Others opt for an empty off hand, choosing instead to focus entirely on their sword arm." This proclamation never saw the light of day b/c it was introduced during the "Tanaka's era".
I would love to see this implemented, and would be commendable if Yoshi-p can squeeze this in patch 1.18a or 1.19

[Synapse]

JUST IN!! on patch 1.20! Gladiators can Dual Wield when no shield is equipped.. yeah that would be awesome, to top it off make it a trait, everyone dual wield inc!

[Reika]

Actually looking at the translation of the Famitsu interview, I see that yoshida doesn't give a shit about the current gladiator lore and wants it to be a pure tank.

[AlphaDragoon]

Actually looking at the translation of the Famitsu interview, I see that yoshida doesn't give a shit about the current gladiator lore and wants it to be a pure tank.

Ugh.

If that's the case, hopefully Fencer/Samurai are still gonna come out...and soon. Want a sword class that isn't only there to get hit, thanks.

[Reika]

Me too. It pisses me off that there weren't great sword or katana classes from the start.

[Winterclaw]

Actually looking at the translation of the Famitsu interview, I see that yoshida doesn't give a shit about the current gladiator lore and wants it to be a pure tank.

Ugh. As much as I like glads, I can't stand pure tanks. We need an offensive class that uses normal swords. Yoshida really needs to play a GW warrior to see how a frontline class should be played. Why is it that in most online games, if someone has a regular sword, he isn't expected to kill anything? This boggles me.

Ideally if you went one handed your attack power and accuracy would go up by however much a shield would protect you for. If you go duel, you get two normal powered attacks.

[Reika]

Mr Yoshida isn't thinking outside the box. All the classes and jobs are just going to end up stereotyped. I wanted to see the game have multiple tank classes and multiple healing classes. But apparently we are going to have obvious tank class, obvious DD classes, and Obvious healing classes, and it is just going to end up completely monotonous. They still seem to play to lock the weapon class to the job it unlocks. And he wants PvP.... what to see gladiator get its face owned off because it cant do any damn damage? Just going to go back to having unused classes.

Im starting to wonder if he really played everquest. I played it. It didn't lack for variety in what you can do with certain classes. Paladins and shadowknights could use 1h/shield and 2h sword/axe/mace.