Mix Weapon Jobs?

[CazzT]

A proper scythe job would be pretty epic. Something along the lines of Evie from Vindictus or Angela from Rusty Hearts (rip RH). No one seems to do scythes justice...

[Barraind]

A proper scythe job would be pretty epic. Something along the lines of Evie from Vindictus or Angela from Rusty Hearts (rip RH). No one seems to do scythes justice...

Dervishes in Guild Wars used scythes, and were pretty awesome.

[Martyr]

Is it not too late to upgrade the Samurai into Shinsengumi and wield both katana and rifle?

Would be interesting if they started making use of that subweapon slot for some of the classes. Could be a take on the subclass idea, where equipping certain subweapons would give you 5-ish abilities that every class can use depending on the weapon.

[EdwinLi]

I'm still a bit curious to see what people may want to see a future Job Mix Dual Wield as their Main Weapon of Choice.

[VictorTheed]

Nunchucks, hope I'm saying that right, but yeah, I been wanting those in a game for awhile and would like to see it as a melee dps.

[RitsukoSonoda]

The Limsa leader who's name I can never spell right uses 2 guns. Also one of the quest NPCs for MCH uses a 1 handed axe + a gun. Raubahn dual wielded 1 handed swords until he sort of ended up only having 1 hand.

There are a number of other weapons in the FF franchise of games that haven't been put to use here yet

I wouldn't mind more classes making use of shields. Gunbreaker could have been made to make use of a shield given the size of the weapon though it would have detracted a little from that FF8 squall image. One of the tank characters in the mobile game Kings Raid actually has this setup as a weapon. Given that a shield is a general defensive implement I just don't see why its really been limited to Gladiator/Paladin. They have for the most part phased shields out of Conjurer/WhiteMage Thaumaturge/BlackMage as they'd also pretty much phased out 1 handed wands/rods for them as well. At the same time that offhand/subweapon slot sits there empty for every other combat class.

[Enkidoh]

The Limsa leader who's name I can never spell right uses 2 guns. Also one of the quest NPCs for MCH uses a 1 handed axe + a gun. Raubahn dual wielded 1 handed swords until he sort of ended up only having 1 hand.

They're NPCs though who have long thumbed their noses at the Armoury System and do things we simply cannot (look at Alphinaud and his many unique Carbuncles). Just because a npc uses weapons in a certain way does not mean players will ever be able to do the same sadly. Especially in the case of Rostnsthal (the MCH npc you mentioned, although he's not a MCH himself, he's a MSK which was a class meant to be added to the game but never did and MCH ended up taking on it's role) - he's been dual wielding a flintlock pistol in one hand and a single handed axe in the other since 1.0's launch, without so much as a passing reference from SE as to why he can do that and players can't. It's simply to look cool and impressive.

I wouldn't mind more classes making use of shields. Gunbreaker could have been made to make use of a shield given the size of the weapon though it would have detracted a little from that FF8 squall image. One of the tank characters in the mobile game Kings Raid actually has this setup as a weapon. Given that a shield is a general defensive implement I just don't see why its really been limited to Gladiator/Paladin. They have for the most part phased shields out of Conjurer/WhiteMage Thaumaturge/BlackMage as they'd also pretty much phased out 1 handed wands/rods for them as well. At the same time that offhand/subweapon slot sits there empty for every other combat class.

Sadly that airship has sailed. As I mentioned in my previous post shield use was meant to be used by multiple classes as the SEN class, but was scrapped when SE redesigned the Armoury System in preperation for the addition of Jobs. As shield use then became GLA/PLD's 'hat', hence why it was restricted to what could equip it (THM/BLM and CNJ/WHM could still equip certain types of shields as a legacy of the old system, but they're generally only lower level). And it's pretty telling that SE are not interested in changing this, what with PLD's very Job icon being a literal shield - you are not going to see any new class or Job make use of them, that's just being realistic.

[EdwinLi]

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There is no need to involve off-hand slots anyways.

They can easily just combine the two different weapons into one single weapon like they did with Rogue's Dual Daggers but with two different weapons instead.

Such as the Great Arm Claw/Mace for a new Sentinel Tank Job and the Pistol/Shortsword for Modern Assassin DPS Job I mentioned in the first post.

As you said believing they will use Off-handed weapons again is unrealistic but it is realistic that SE will combine the two dual wield weapons of different weapon types into a single Main Weapon.

As for Shield, well we may see Shields return in future Jobs but not as Off-handed Shields and rather something a bit more creative. For example, if a Great Arm Claw/Mace Job is introduced, the Main Weapon will be a single image of both the Great Arm Claw and Mace weapon in the image thus completely removing the need to separate them into two different items for Main and Off-hand but instead considered a single weapon category being Main Hand weapon.

[chokoanders01]

i they could also go like abyss watchers from ds3 and have a big sword and a knife

[EdwinLi]

i they could also go like abyss watchers from ds3 and have a big sword and a knife

Sword/Dagger job was certainly one of my top 3 choices but then I thought that they can cover that by providing some future weapons for ROgue/Ninja to be Sword/Dagger combo like Thancred did in his 3.X to 4.X as a Rogue. We know SE can do it but they just need to put the effort into design the weapons.

I am surprised they have not yet added Thancred's 3.X to 4.X Dagger weapon into the game or Mogstation considering how some people will go crazy for that weapon for their Ninja