Gunhalberd?!

[Murugan]

Ya, it's funny that people are all, "gun-halberd pshaw" when that's the instrument of war that is more closely related to the Bayonet which wasn't even from that long ago. Instead people are actually wanting gun-blades...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayonet

Another time this sort of "gun-<insert item here>" happened was when a Japanese player actually took pictures of Legatus Darnus after the imperial attack in horizon.

The pictures can be found from a link in the OP.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post285325

I actually wasn't referring to bayonnet I was referring to actual examples in both European warfare of halberd type weapons and pikes which were also muzzle loaded muskets, or the use of some similar weapons in Japanese warfare during the Sengoku Jidai. Actual gunblade type weapons in history.

They were never widely used, they were impractical, but then again the majority of weapons included in XIV (or any game) were never widely used by any army. Impractical however does not mean useless.

The gun baghnakhs I mentioned earlier for example were used in close range combat to pierce a hole in heavy armor before the shot back when gunpowder weapons were fairly weak. Either that or simply having a melee weapon to use once your single shot had been used made these weapons useful for the time, it's just that equipping a large army with them would be incredibly expensive so it never happened.

By the time they could be produced in mass quantity enough that large armies could equip gunpowder weapons those guns were powerful/reliable enough, and could be reloaded quick enough that it was no longer necessary to really carry a primarily melee weapon (though of course the bayonet/knife were/are still used).