So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

[Vexander]

In this game, two jobs cant share the same type of weapon (SCH aside, but that's one root class.)

Black Mage and White Mage both use Staves. Scepters too, for that matter, though I doubt we'll see either using Scepters in the future. Wouldn't mind seeing a new DoM class using Scepters though.

It could be, true, but the weapon would pretty much define the feel of the job, IMO.

Also, personally I feel that the whip would be best reserved for Beastmaster, if we ever get that job.

I'd like to see Blue Mage incorporated with Beastmaster and Morpher elements to be honest, so I wouldn't be opposed to a whip.

[Ogulbuk]

Black Mage and White Mage both use Staves.

I know they look very similar, but White Mages use Radicals and Wands

A wand or radical is a short, one-handed, length of unworked wood which is used to focus aether until it manifests as a desired spell.

While Black Mages use Scepters and Staffs.

A scepter, cudgel, brand, or rod is a short, one-handed, length made of metal and/or bone, within which is housed a medium -- a natural stone imbued with magical properties.

I'd like to see Blue Mage incorporated with Beastmaster and Morpher elements to be honest, so I wouldn't be opposed to a whip.

I got to say, a BST/BLU combination would actually be very interesting.

[Stitches1974]

I know they look very similar, but White Mages use Radicals and Wands

A wand or radical is a short, one-handed, length of unworked wood which is used to focus aether until it manifests as a desired spell.

While Black Mages use Scepters and Staffs.

A scepter, cudgel, brand, or rod is a short, one-handed, length made of metal and/or bone, within which is housed a medium -- a natural stone imbued with magical properties.

WHT also uses canes, and crooks, which is a staff. Never saw a "radical" though.

crook
kro͝ok/
noun
1.
the hooked staff of a shepherd.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cane

noun
1.
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.

[Ogulbuk]

WHT also uses canes, and crooks, which is a staff. Never saw a "radical" though. [...]
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/cane

Dictionary definitions are not the point. What I posted was the distinction from class definitions declared by the game. WHM use nature-based rods and canes while the BLM ones are supposed to be more oriented to artificial/crafting (metals, etc.)

They can likely come up with yet a new category of wand/rod, just like they can easily have more than one type of sword category (rapiers for RDM and katana for a hypothetical samurai, 2 handed swords for DRK)

My point is mostly that Square had decided, at least at first, that each class (or class-free job) would wield a unique category of weapon.

SIDE TOPIC:
We have 3 melee dps, and now will have 3 magic dps, 3 healers, 3 tanks.
We have only 2 physical range DPS: bard and Machinist. We need a new ranged physical dps job... give BLU a boomerang!!!

[Vexander]

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Well if we want to get -that- technical, I suppose we could add a class that uses a Scimitar and argue that its not a sword, cause Paladins use swords. Wait, we're doing something similar with Red Mage. Though as far as I know, no one argues that the Rapier still isn't a sword.

A little off topic, I heard an interesting rumor about adding additional roles to certain classes by using different weapons. Think Scholar and Summoner, except, say, a Summoner uses a Staff while a Scholar sticks to the book, and Scholar is no longer a job at all. There's just Summoner with a healing spec that summons faeries to help heal. Granted that's just an example and I don't think its planned. A better example would be, say, a WHM using a Scepter to switch to a DPS spec where Cure, Cure II, Cure III etc... get replaced with Water, Water II, Water III...