I'm glad to see a bit more flamboyant weaponry, it's good for motivation to do these fights. It's funny, you hear people say this game needs to be more like a traditional FF game, when FF games have always had weapons that were anything from glowy lightsaber greatswords to gun-swords to swords made of water (and yes, I specifically picked three of the most popular weapons in the series as examples). As soon as the dev team adds some weapons that are actually fantastical, people start decrying it as too garish and impractical.

Even the last FF game that most closely resembled FFXIV in art style, FFXII, had some very ornate and impractical looking weaponry, to say nothing of character equipment, and I liked it that way. I'm all for practical gear for lower levels since that's what lower level gear should look like, as it's the gear you have when your character is still close to a normal realistic level of ability. However, a fantasy game, especially a Final Fantasy game, should have fantastical looking equipment at higher levels. This doesn't mean WoW Football Pads of DOOM, but you'd think the Primal of Fire would have loot that looks hot.