Next Weapons

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Considering weapons are mostly locked to a job, I highly doubt we'll see anything more than what we already have. But let's just assume that's nihil, I'd like to see:

• Baton
• Hooked Blades
• Tessen
• Flute (Bard has it, but I want them to use it more!!!)
• Scroll
• Arm-Blade
• Nunchakus
• Triple-Staff
• Magic Bracelet/Pendant.
• Parasol (probably as a joke weapon)

[Thaciscokidd]

Dolls. Even though pets are borked in XiV i still want a Puppet Master and/or beastmaster.


We could go full anime with it!

[Ath192]

I'd like to see a proper corsair. High tech MCH doesn't fill the same itch as a classic imperial era corsair. Odd when you think about it since the most famous city in the game is full of pirates, and we don't have ANY class that has a pirate aesthetic.

Weapons would be slow gunpowder guns/sabers

[Enkidoh]

I'd like to see a proper corsair. High tech MCH doesn't fill the same itch as a classic imperial era corsair. Odd when you think about it since the most famous city in the game is full of pirates, and we don't have ANY class that has a pirate aesthetic.

There was meant to be a gun-using pirate class (Musketeer), but for whatever reason SE abandoned working on it in 1.0 and so it was stillborn at 1.0's launch. What little mechanically SE had worked on it they probably just cannibalized for MCH later on anyway so that's probably why we'll never get MSK.

MRDs are also meant to be pirates with great axes, but that's for a bizarre meta reason - originally the lore for MRD is that they were planned to be executioners (hence the great axe), but SE quickly decided the idea wouldn't fit as a player class, and so redesigned them as pirates who are bit more bloodthirsty than usual (while still retaining the great axe). The executioner origin is still hinted with the name of one of Limsa's most notorious pirate gangs as "The Bloody Executioners".

Lore wise however MRDs use great axes because apparently most Eorzean pirates "prefer the visceral feel of the blade of a great axe slicing through the flesh of their enemies" than simply shooting them with a gun - combat pragmatists they are not.

So alas I doubt very much we'll ever see FFXI's COR class here.

[LioJen]

Cross pike please

[WlyemR]

I would like to see Geomancer as a Caster DPS, and it's weapon being a combination Instrument/Striker held in separate hands similar to how RDM weapon is two separate parts. There are plenty of examples in cultures around the world: Native decorative drums and sticks, Asian gongs and mallets, European bells and hammers, ect.

[Larirawiel]

I want an AK-47. xD

A big 2h hammer would be also really nice.



Cheers

[Tsiron]

I never get tired of this topic (I say genuinely). Melee Jobs are my favourite so I'm biased in that regard, but there's a few weapon types I can think of they could still add:

- Maces/Hammers, be it one or two-handed. Barely any outside of two? WAR weapons, or unique to NPCs (Nero, Gaia etc.). I'm surprised PLD never got any given they're often associated with holiness, clerics and the like.
- One-handed axes. Obviously WAR has a monopoly on the big ones, but their one-handed variant has been reserved almost exclusively for NPCs up until now. One of the MCH Job Quest NPCs uses one (with a pistol in his off-hand), as do all of the Beastmasters encountered in Bozja.
- Dual swords. It's a bit dicey because NIN has... quite a lot of sword-sized "daggers", it gets pretty ridiculous, but its stance is distinctive enough that I don't think they'd step on each other's toes too much? Something like Gabranth's stance I think would be different enough... and, speaking of Gabranth, those familiar with FFXII and/or Dissidia will know that his weapons come with a gimmick: they can be combined into one double-ended polearm, which leads us to...
- "Twinblades"! They have precedent in the series, first in FFIX, the so-called "Thief Swords", the aforementioned FFXII, and I think FFXIII's Lightning also gets one during her LB? or whatever the system was in that game? We already have 2 polearm Jobs, so I think combining Dual Swords+Twinblade could be a good way to make it stand out!
- Whips? Depending on how they're implemented this could technically also be an Aiming Job... I don't really have a stake in this race, I kind of hate whips being treated as a legitimate weapon lol

Me personally I wish they'd add another sword DPS, one ideally using two-handed longswords... but unfortunately PLD already has "longswords" even if they're used one-handed (common video game 'mistake'), so I don't think that's happening anymore

[Evergrey]

I know this is a really bad picture, just took a screenie from a YT video.
But I thought that after seeing the Double-Blade Ravana does when going from Part 1 to Part 2 was a tease of an upcoming weapon.
I'd like to see this still.

[Tsiron]

I actually did think we would get FFXII Judge, a variation thereof, as the Maiming Job in Endwalker until RPR was properly revealed. Might be an expansion or two before it gets another shot, unless they make it a Tank rather than DPS?