Paladin weapon should not be two separate items in the loot pool

[kattzkitti]

Winning the sword should automatically give the shield along with it, it's asinine that Paladin is the only job who's weapon is split in two.

[Centershock]

It does.

Well, in a way it does. For chests that have the PLD sword, the shield will come with it. I believe this was a change made in 3.2-ish, but only to HW areas and beyond.

[Jijifli]

It does.

Well, in a way it does. For chests that have the PLD sword, the shield will come with it. I believe this was a change made in 3.2-ish, but only to HW areas and beyond.

It's more of the awkward situation for someone who could use it on their pld, but didn't come as one. You have to roll greed for both and could only obtain one of the two, causing an imbalance.

[Paladinleeds]

It's more of the awkward situation for someone who could use it on their pld, but didn't come as one. You have to roll greed for both and could only obtain one of the two, causing an imbalance.

Perhaps it could be changed so that the name of the weapon + shield (if completely different), or the [name] sword and [name] shield becoming say "[name] box" - so you roll on a box, if you win it, you use it, open up the sword and shield, and away you go. Then you're only rolling on one item. The new artifact gear, as well as the i115 gear for RDM/SAM, work this way.

[Tint]

yeah, i can imagine 2 PLD in the party and one gets the sword and the other one the shield... they should fix that, because that's a situation that should not be possible.

[Daralii]

I imagine a lot of people would dislike that just because they wouldn't be able to do sword or shield-specific glamours, the invisible shield especially. Maybe they could drop and be purchased as a bundle that unpacks into the individual items? Similar to the AF3 boxes.

[RyuujinZERO]

There's certainly a precedent to combine them now we have RDM (sword + focus), and NIN (dagger + dagger), which don't use the offhand slot, despite having an offhand. The other classes that use that slot (ie crafters, gatherers) actually have a second tool in those slots, not an off-hand. WHM and BLM *technically* use that slot for shields but, there hasn't been any new BLM/WHM offhand shields since 2.0

[Bacent]

Perhaps it could be changed so that the name of the weapon + shield (if completely different), or the [name] sword and [name] shield becoming say "[name] box" - so you roll on a box, if you win it, you use it, open up the sword and shield, and away you go. Then you're only rolling on one item. The new artifact gear, as well as the i115 gear for RDM/SAM, work this way.

This I actually wouldn't mind. They did show that they can give item boxes now for quests that have multiple items in them, so I don't see why it can't work like this

[Alistaire]

I imagine a lot of people would dislike that just because they wouldn't be able to do sword or shield-specific glamours, the invisible shield especially. Maybe they could drop and be purchased as a bundle that unpacks into the individual items? Similar to the AF3 boxes.

If sword+shield drops were changed to a box like you get when you do the lv 70 job quests they'd still be seperate items for glamour purposes. Lot box, win box, use box and get 2 items.