new items are counter productive?

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I highly doubt the weapons are "class-only". You are misinterpreting that. Here is the quote:
"New weapon recipes planned for patch 1.22 are for gladiator, pugilist, marauder, and lancer classes only."

I think what they are saying is that the mage weapons and bow are not yet available. The word "class" was just used as a catch-all, instead of naming all of the corresponding jobs.

the garuda weapons say class/job while the others only say class, so maybe its a typo on there part but my interpretation of the text seems valid.

These are nuggets that never existed before

so the old reforms have nothing to do with these new items

im not talking about if the items were in game before, im talking about the streamlined concept. I know a lot of people looked all that stuff and im not saying they should or shouldn't have it, im saying its going against what seemed like a streamlined format.