The Ragnarok and the Zodiac weapons

[Tyrn]

And now its an Axe, get over it.

It's also an allagan starship (class).

[Synestr]

It's also an allagan starship (class).

OOO OOO... also in FFVIII it was a the airship that Squall and Rinoa went to! It was awesome and didn't look like an axe or sword...o.o heh

[Nalien]

You know, it's still more than possible that Ragnarok could return in 3.0 as a Great Sword... Depends if Yoshida still intends for the "legendary" equipment to remain legendary by reoccurring;

[Source]

Chuki : In the PDF, you said that Excalibur is a legendary weapon but that its appearance may change. What did you mean?
Naoki Yoshida : The reason behind the whole idea, I think Final Fantasy XI had the same problem, but because it’s a MMO, it’s difficult to bring these legendary, traditional weapons as additional items, for example, the Genji set, or Excalibur, Ragnarok… that kind of very important items which you saw in previous Final Fantasies. When you bring it to a MMO, the power level will always increase, for example, if I do bring the whole Genji set in the next raid, as a reward you can get in the raid, in a one year time, there’s going to be a stronger raid, and you’re going to need stronger items. And the people will be saying “the Genji set in Final Fantasy XIV is just a really weak rip-off!”. We don’t want to give that different impression while it’s supposed to be a legendary item, we don’t want to make it weak in MMO just because it’s a MMO. That’s why I decided to make this new system for Final Fantasy XIV.

Instead, of course, we can’t just keep Genji set off the game until it is old enough, because that’s not the whole point. We are going to divide Final Fantasy XIV in seasons, that might be one year or two years, we carefully see how the game balance is moving forward. But within these seasons, I want to make the players able to apply for these legendary items, in order to register for your own special item. For example, for the Grand Company, if you have a sword with like, level 30 strength and level 40 piety, and you have a weapon that matches that, then you can apply for the Excalibur. And in the case you have it, you will have special graphics for your new Excalibur.

But then, for example, in another year time, when the whole game is going to be even more difficult and complicated, we’ll be changing the rules of what can be called Excalibur. Then, you have to apply again to have the new graphics for this new Excalibur, there’s always going to be different types of Excaliburs, maybe having like a Legendary Season. For the next rule, you might have to work close with the crafters who can use Materia to make the new weapon so you can have a cooperation. We really want it to be like a Final Fantasy special item, to be part of this legacy item.

I kind of expect the Zodiac weapons upgraded in 2.51 to be the best weapons in the game, then come 3.0 they revert to a different weapon and we attempt to upgrade that to the Zodiac weapons again. At that point Dark Knight could obtain Ragnarok at Lv60 while Warrior obtains whatever.