@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a Tank class!

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No, I don't particularly have a better suggestion for a job to use hammers/maces, partially because I don't really see them as being a necessary addition to the game. Many games don't use Hammers for their classes, and there isn't particularly a defacto hammer wielding job in Final Fantasy games. I just don't see how hammer = viking, who in my opinion are more known for axes than anything else. But I suppose the whole mjolnir+thunder aspect has some appeal.

Viking is as much known for hammers as axes. My insistence on incorporating a lightning theme doesn't just come from good old fashioned Thor wank, but also from the fact that Vikings had more or less exclusive ownership of hammers in their debut appearance (aside from Onion Knight who could equip most anything and Ninja, who could use Mjolnir because ? ? ?) and hammers as a weapon class were all inherently Lightning elemental.

And that's not even getting into the real lack of any kind of blunt damage besides knuckles in this game.

If I had to give a tank job a hammer, I'd probably give it to Judgemaster.

Judgemaster, and Judges in general have never used hammers. Assigning them that just because of a Judge's gavel seems a bit strange.

Why must PLD share their shields?

Why must only one job in the entire game use shields? Just because Paladins equip shields doesn't mean the use of a shield should just be off-limits forever.

A shield + 1h weapon is a bit harder to make more unique attacking animations for if you have 2 jobs using them.

But we already have Ninja. By this logic shouldn't it be too hard to make unique attacking animations for a dual wielder if you have 2 jobs doing it? Or another two-handed sword user? (We know the answer to these questions is no, because fighting styles would absolutely vary between each job's weapon despite similarities in how one arms themself.)

If Viking's were to have shields, I'd rather them then have a shield + spear if anything.

The idea that on one hand Viking shouldn't be a hammer job because they're "not known for it" (despite literally being known for it) and on the other they should be assigned a weapon they've literally never used is sort of baffling.

Like, I'd enjoy a Shield+Spear user too, but I don't think there's any job (besides Dragoon, who did in fact equip shields along with their spears in several games) that exists that could be associated with that idea.