Are wands and shields discontinued for WHM?

[Recon1o6]

discontinued as they were holdovers from 1.0. conjurer had a side thing called sentinel where the shield was from

you can still on the rare occasion get a parry with any job and weapon so dont worry

funnily enough though they did have a small resurgence recently because of bozja, a level 80 zone that ups stats and levels inside. so a level 1 wand and shield was better than a level 80 cane in that zone

[Enkidoh]

discontinued as they were holdovers from 1.0. conjurer had a side thing called sentinel where the shield was from

you can still on the rare occasion get a parry with any job and weapon so dont worry

funnily enough though they did have a small resurgence recently because of bozja, a level 80 zone that ups stats and levels inside. so a level 1 wand and shield was better than a level 80 cane in that zone

SEN (Sentinel) was more for GLA as only GLA could make use of SEN abilities (which mostly became GLA abilities by default when SEN was rolled into GLA anyway), but THM and CNJ could equip certain shields and thus gain SP towards SEN. This all changed when the 1.0 battle system was redesigned circa 1.20 patch and SP was removed, and Class Rank became Class Level, and Jobs were added, so SEN was rolled into GLA to make it a better fit for PLD which naturally was all about defense with a shield, and shields became classless. But certain types of shields could still be equipped to THM and CNJ given there was plenty of single handed wands/rods those two classes used, and this continued into ARR.

However, as the end game CNJ/WHM and THM/BLM weapons in ARR were exclusively 2-handed, this fell by the wayside, and so there was an expectation that no one would use single handed weapons for those classes anymore (I believe there was a level 50/item level 95 Allagan single handed rod for THM/BLM, and a level 50/item level 100 CNJ/WHM single-handed Primal wand in ARR's patch scenario, but I think they were the last ones ever added.).

Either way, single-handed weapons for THM/BLM and CNJ/WHM are a legacy of 1.0 that has since been left behind I'm afraid, and you will only find two-handed weapons in recent content for those Jobs.

[Deceptus]

funnily enough though they did have a small resurgence recently because of bozja, a level 80 zone that ups stats and levels inside. so a level 1 wand and shield was better than a level 80 cane in that zone

Still is. /10char