Quote Originally Posted by Ogulbuk View Post
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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...