Quote Originally Posted by Stitches1974 View Post
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!!!