One pair of katanas in the game?

[Arkine]

Now that Ninja has been added, I noticed that the only pair of katanas we have are the relic.

That's it. There are no other katanas in the game.

What.

[Gaist]

I do not see the point you are making.

[Morningstar1337]

aren't Katanas more of a Samurai thing?

[Jamez82]

You're thinking of the ninjato which is astraight blade and slightly shorter than a katana.

[Tupsi]

aren't Katanas more of a Samurai thing?

Not really since there's numerous types. Heck they could have even used Sais. Just look at the Katana line in FFXI.

[Grey_Cain]

Nope, zero katanas. It barely looks long enough to count as a wakizashi going by the pictures.

[Arkine]

In FFXI there are 31 katanas available to Ninja from lv1 to 50. This includes Wakizashis, Kunais, Sais, etc. In XIV we only have The relic.

So yeah, where are the katanas?

While we're at it... Fuma, Relic/Koga and I guess the event items are the only "eastern" style equipment available to ninja.

[Gelesto]

Because Rogues with katanas, no thanks.

[Gilraen]

The names of the Samurai and Ninja weapons in XI are actually a mistranslation. In the original Japanese the Samurai use Katana and the Ninja use Kogatana (or small katana). For some strange reason, the translators decided to follow the sword naming conventions, with Great Katana and Katana like was used for Great Sword and Sword. It's a small difference that's had lasting consequences, apparently.

As for why the only Japanese daggers in the game are the Ninja relic, well that should be immediately obvious. Ninja isn't a Job native to Eorzea so why would there be random Japanese daggers sold by vendors?

[HakuroDK]

As for why the only Japanese daggers in the game are the Ninja relic, well that should be immediately obvious. Ninja isn't a Job native to Eorzea so why would there be random Japanese daggers sold by vendors?

This does make a fair bit of sense, if you think about it.