Request: Alternate Weapon Types

[Duelle]

It won't happen, because that is the complete opposite of what the Armoury System is about.

This, pretty much. You'd have to scrap the armoury system, design individual skills per weapon (swords and maces are not used in the same way, for example) and separate all job skills from those weapons. It's a huge undertaking and undermines one of the main systems behind the game, so I don't see them doing this, nor would I want them to spend time and resources doing this.

[Khalithar]

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I don't know about scrapping the armory system, if the different weapons were purely aesthetic then you wouldn't need new animations necessarily. A purely visual swap between say a marauder axe and a hammer isn't unreasonable nor is replacing a gld sword with a one handed axe or a mch gun with a crossbow. They could still add those weapons to other jobs even if they add weapon skins because two people carrying the same weapon don't necessarily have the same fighting style with it.