More Interesting Dancer Weapons PLEASE!

[Palslow]

I have found some examples of how they can jazz it up a bit without changing too much on the current design!! these looks so much cooler....what do you guys think?

[Avatre]

I have found some examples of how they can jazz it up a bit without changing too much on the current design!! these looks so much cooler....what do you guys think?

I wouldn't mind something like the second, the first just isn't practical really

[Palslow]

I wouldn't mind something like the second, the first just isn't practical really

yes, but its just some idea ffxiv can explore....maybe with blade in fans....there is a move called fan dance even, so why not fans....

[Haruka_R]

I have found some examples of how they can jazz it up a bit without changing too much on the current design!! these looks so much cooler....what do you guys think?

Huh, so I wasn't the only one thinking about Dynasty Warriors when I saw this thread. Weird how you didn't insert Sun Shang Xiang though.

[Omnia]

I'm waiting...

[TheMightyMollusk]

Senor Sabotender weapons to let us throw roulette wheels at our enemies. Who has a gambling problem NOW, bitch?!

[Picker]

I like the new ex3 fans, but I agree there should be some more fan models. I think some throwing daggers or whips would look neat as well.

[Iscah]

...looking at the market board or dancer weapons from the dungeons, they are boring and dark and tiny, most of them don't even have colours, just a black circle.

This makes me dubious that you're actually looking at any of the weapons. There are definitely coloured ones, sometimes dyeable so even ones that start off looking dull by the default metal colours can come up bright – the Deepgold War Quoits for example, which IIRC are black by default, but you can dye the black parts any colour you like. Another version dyes the inner parts while keeping the rim black. Experiment with them.

The DSR weapon is poop. Sure the glow is cool, but it's nothing remotely 'dancery', especially not the glow colour.

How can a colour be "not dancery"?

but for example, white mage can have one handed weapon or 2 handed, or paladin can have shield and sword, dancers can have something similar in that fashion too.

Sword and shield on paladin isn't a variation, it's just what they use.

And the one-handed mage weapons stopped being made ages ago, and they're functionally a pain. They're classified as a different type of weapon to staffs so you can't glamour one over the other. Perpetuating it would mean being locked out of half the available weapon glamours according to which sort was released in the current tier of weapons.

I'm with you on this one. The aesthetically pleasing weapons for Dancer are really lacking, imo. When they added the Thordan EX crafted weapons I got a little excited, but then they didn't add any others for us. Just disappointing. There's no explanation as to why we got a Shinryu weapon and no others, either.

Doesn't that suggest to you that they're working on adding things over time?

If they wanted to be lazy about it, they could have just slapped theme colours on a pre-existing weapon model, but instead it seems they're taking their time and making unique models to match the others.

[Soge01]

Frosted Sprinkle Donut weapons! Seriously, I'd unlock dancer on my Lalafell if I got those kinds of weapons. xD

[Punslinger]

It's been three years and I'm still waiting for GNB/DNC weapons for the 50/60/70 trials to be added to the game. The only fight that got them was Shinryu. And SGE/RPR have the same problem.

Like it or not, Square established a precedent in HW and SB when they went back and added weapons for AST, DRK, MCH, RDM, and SAM to those old trials. A lot of us were expecting the same to be done for GNB/DNC, and it's disappointing that they haven't. They've had three damn years, and they couldn't find the time to churn out a dozen models and add them to the game?

I'd love to see some cool moon-themed Tsukuyomi chakrams, or a regal Thordan gunblade. I can imagine RPR mains wanting a sweet Nidhogg or Ifrit-themed scythe. Instead, newer jobs have much fewer options for glamour to choose from.