A request from a Ninja.

[Nalien]

Honestly, I'm not sure why they bother having Shield be a seperate equip. Only DoH/DoL actually use that slot. Paladins basically have to keep their shield paired with their straight sword.

More customisation options are never a bad thing? Imagine finding the perfect sword and it being locked to an absolutely hideous shield... I'm very glad the shield is separate...

Would love the same for Ninja as well, although first things first, can we get more than half a dozen eastern themed weapons for the job? So much of the gear for Ninja seems to have been designed with Thief in mind, rather than Ninja... Heck the final Anima weapon took the name from a XI Thief Relic weapon, rather than a Ninja one... So much of the job is kind of disappointed to be honest... Death Blossom and Throwing Dagger need to change to being kunai or something rather than the same daggers Thancred has thrown about since 1.0... It doesn't even really duel wield, you hit once, same as every other job... Meanwhile Sword Oath Paladin basically hits twice with auto attacks... It's kinda funny how much better Paladin is than Ninja in this regard...

As for mechanically allowing us to mismatch weapons... Could they not just introduce a series of purely glamour based versions of Ninjas weapons that we equip and they overwrite the appearance of the weapon in the offhand? Honestly I've always figured the offhand slot could be used for purely cosmetic changes to jobs for a long time... Something like Bard getting to customise their harp that way, or pet jobs like Summoner equipping an item that determines what pet glamour they summon rather than that godsawful text command...