Quote Originally Posted by Rbstr View Post
There's no reason at all that jobs/classes can't use different weapons. They're "Gladiator's Arms" not Gladiator's swords. Conjurers and Thaums both use 1 and 2-handed weapons. So you have Gladiator's Arm which is a scythe. It's also clearly possible to prevent a Paladin from holding a scythe in this case given Summoners can't use Scholar books. And as you see on Relic Weapons and Armor, it's possible to keep a straight gladiator from using a scythe too.
The actual problem with DRK coming from GLA is two-fold; You do not swing, or even hold, a scythe/zweihander like you would a broadsword. That means adding new animations for every single non-magic skill (notice how using Stone Skin on PLD is the same animation as WHM doing it); GLA is very, very heavily rooted in tanking.