Why no more wands for WHM and BLM?

[Victoria_Silverdawn]

I understand that there is the whole balancing the roles and if they add the wand, then their has to be a shield that is equal to balance it and make it equal to a staff and blah blah blah... plus we have to then have to farm primals for both the wand and shield... blah blah blah... but our last wand was ilvl 100 Levithan for WHM, and ilvl 90 for BLM... Don't get me wrong I love my staffs... but I want to use the Company shield... I don't tank... and since whm and blm can use it... only if we aren't level 60 with our ilvl 200 weapon...

Plus, we cant even use the garuda or moogle wands for whm glamour, or the ifrit and titan for blm... That takes those crafted 3 star items away...

It would be nice to add them back to the game, I understand staffs are easier... Even if they are added as crafted items, it would be nice to have that variety again for whm and blm... But that's just my own opinion

[Anova]

SE's been working on a fix for this problem for months now. You do know that 3.1 patch is supposed to include a multi-slot glamour update right?

That means we can glamour heavy body armor and robes with a single body/head piece or staffs with 1-handed wands, and vice-versa.

Whether they'll add wands equal to i210 is another question, but one that's possible given the fact that airships will give randomized i210 items.

[Risvertasashi]

One of those diversity things, like classes branching into different specializations, that fell by the wayside I think. But as the poster above says, perhaps we'll be able to at least glamor them.

All things considered I wouldn't mind having options.

[Nomad-phx]

Because whm/blm complained about having to farm 2 drops instead of 1 which was fixed until the Leviathan weapons dropped and whm had to gear like pld again.

[Risvertasashi]

Because whm/blm complained about having to farm 2 drops instead of 1 which was fixed until the Leviathan weapons dropped and whm had to gear like pld again.

They seem to have fixed that pretty well for PLD, though. Shields come as an 'extra' drop (ie you get 3 items from a chest instead of two), or cost less tokens, or things can be bought as a set now...

So that reason doesn't really hold up anymore.

[Aurelinaus]

They seem to have fixed that pretty well for PLD, though. Shields come as an 'extra' drop (ie you get 3 items from a chest instead of two), or cost less tokens, or things can be bought as a set now...

So that reason doesn't really hold up anymore.

I remember that live letter too and that was pretty much the reason spot on, and in FCoB that damn shield wasn't an extra it still ate a slot. adding wands and caster shields back in would just add to the item bloat.

[technole]

I remember that live letter too and that was pretty much the reason spot on, and in FCoB that damn shield wasn't an extra it still ate a slot. adding wands and caster shields back in would just add to the item bloat.

Yep, that FCoB Turn 12 Dreadwyrm Shield drop took me awhile to get. Hated how it was part of the two items you could get weekly, should have been a possible third slot. Oh well, once the weekly lock out was abolished I finally got one.

Of course with Ravana EX I had to buy the shield since well it never dropped in conjunction with anything, but the 7 tokens for sword + 3 shield price is a fair trade off. It would likely be the same with WHM/BLM if they did it again. With the amount of jobs now the token system does ease the pain a little bit.

[KarstenS]

Because whm/blm complained about having to farm 2 drops instead of 1 which was fixed until the Leviathan weapons dropped and whm had to gear like pld again.

I think it had something to do with the completely missed shield for BLM in BCoB.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Personally, I hated the one-handed wands and shields. However, I do agree that I really, really wish they would do something about the fact that the Ifrit, Garuda, Levi and Mog weapons are useless as glamours.

[Victoria_Silverdawn]

That's a pretty good point... I forgot about the multi slot glamouring... I didn't think it applied to the weapons too, so that is something to look forward too.