new items are counter productive?

[Molly_Millions]

wouldn't you just equip a class weapon first then change it after the stone is equipped

You could, yes. I'm just theorizing why SE may have held the job weapons back. Obviously equipping one weapon so that you can equip another is pretty cumbersome. My guess is that SE has something up their sleeves to rectify this, which may be the reason for the delay of job specific weapons.