Next Weapons

[WiccaP]

My husband and I were talking about what weapons we'd like to see in the future. Not necessarily a discussion about what jobs that we might see in the future but specifically the weapons used. Thinking back on weapons that have been seen in past final fantasy games, Id love to see a whip, the double sided sword that zidane used in 9, Selphies Nunchaku. It would be interesting to see if they could make the Rackets or Bells not comical.

What are something you'd like to see.

[JisKing98]

Double swords. not daggers, but actually dual wielding swords. We get a tease when ever sam bust out shoha ( yes i know its the sheath).

How bout a Orb as a weapon. We do have sage weapons so why not give a magic range a orb that floats around you (come on necromancer!)

[Shougun]

• Giant mace / clubs with bells, chimes, and like instruments built into the weapon (not necessarily at once, similar giant catalyst shapes and instruments allowed for weapon variants). Like while most are huge cudgel, great maces, one unique one might be a totem with bells chained around it.. Geo Knight like job, with imagery influence from Sauron from Lord of the Rings and Golbez / Ex-, Death.
  
  
• Lantern connected to another object via chain, lantern in one hand chain weapon in the other, usually sharp object like spiked ball, scythe, crystal needle, etc. Used by a soul mage, occult, witch, eldritch, not black theme dark job (so like reds and blues, black is okay but more to the tendrils, crows, etc than black mage, dark knight and reaper). Think the necromancer bone, curse, and soul magic from Diablo games (though I'm not saying it has to be literally that, just color schemes). Blood mage potentially.
  
  
• Also above like jobs, pendant / charm that wraps around the hand and dangles out like crosses (and magical sigils as another variation), as well as three or so phylactery like objects that float in different locations based on the type. Some akin to the blood mage in Warcraft, other juggled behind similar to sage, or above their hand floating. (The visuals of the essence orbs can have variations from floating lost soul like effect, will-o-wisp, others might be empty crystal balls, both changing special effects based on your resources). So if blood mage the crystal balls might be empty and as your resource increases fill and vibrate with an extra sfx, the lost souls would glow fiery.
  
  
• Cloak, Nezha sash, scarf - magical flowing weapon that appears like additional layered gear. Think Bayonetta, Spawn (comic), Dr strange, Voldemort. Could used for a lot, but my vision is for a transformation based job that uses the gear into other forms as a way of customization, and can help with animations. Like if you turned wolf you'd have a huge scarf, Diabolos form with a huge red cape would be epic. Some gear might overlap funny but I feel you could generally make it work.

[Iscah]

How bout a Orb as a weapon. We do have sage weapons so why not give a magic range a orb that floats around you

AST says hi.

It's somewhat mechanical, but it's still a magic floating orb thing.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Do a new MH collab based on MH Rise/Sunbreak and give us Gunlances, Heavy Bowguns, and Hunting Horns... >.>

[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