Duel Wielding In FFXIV: ARR

[TAS]

After it was stated that Yoshi and the dev team were looking into the possibility of allowing Musketeer to dual wield, myself and a few others began talking about what kind of role duel wielding will have in 2.0.

Will it be an equipable trait that certain classes/jobs will be able to use? For example, a trait that would allow gladiator or a job like Thief to duel wield daggers (one in the main hand slot and the other in the off hand slot), ninjas to duel wield katanas, Samurai maybe duel wielding a great katana and sheath, and of course musketeer wielding 2 guns.

Or is duel wielding going to be more like mnk and pgl , where you have class/job whose main hand comes in a pair. So, say if I equipped the musketeer weapon in the main had slot, then I would automatically have the same gun in a pair.

Again just to make it clear, is duel wielding going to be a trait were certain classes/jobs can equip weapons in both their main hand and off hand or is it going to be like mnk/pgl where your mh comes in a pair? And if it is the first way, how will Weapon skilling be affected?

Thoughts?

[Ingolf]

I'd love for a Samurai to dual wield a GK and Sheath, what an utterly interesting idea

[Velhart]

I'd love for a Samurai to dual wield a GK and Sheath, what an utterly interesting idea

I approve this idea. It is an awesome idea that can bring along more awesome ideas.

[NefGP]

I'd love for a Samurai to dual wield a GK and Sheath, what an utterly interesting idea

It would be cool to have it as a sub-weapon, similar to Grips for 2 handers in XI. They could even add in special Iai-strike abilities for SAM that require one to be equipped.

As for dual-wielding, it damn well better be 1 weapon in the main and 1 in the sub slot. Part of the point of DW is to be able to equip 2 different weapons for stat boosts etc.


Speaking of Ninja though, I'm curious to see how Throw & Shuriken will work this time, given they are removing ammunition & consumable throwing items. Also, Ninjutsu had better be MP-based and not tool-based like in XI, or NIN will just be ridiculously OP due to the removal of recasts. Please SE, make NIN a DD/Enfeebler again and not a blink tank... >_<


EDIT: Well, at least we don't have to worry about abusing Haste in this game like in XI, so DW won't be quite so degenerative (and hopefully neither will be Utsusemi).

[JusticeReborn]

The answer is that nobody knows, since the entire notion of dual-wielding at this point is purely theoretical.

[TAS]

The answer is that nobody knows, since the entire notion of dual-wielding at this point is purely theoretical.

Still, It doesnt hurt to ask, allow others to add their two cents, and hope that a dev will chip in a five =)

[Antanias]

I'd like to see how NIN works first before talking about Dual Wield (though that prospect sounds awesome )

[KiriA500]

I want MNK to get Dual-Wield! TWO SETS OF KNUCKLES MEANS TWICE THE POUNDING!

[TAS]

I want MNK to get Dual-Wield! TWO SETS OF KNUCKLES MEANS TWICE THE POUNDING!

Where would they be equipped lol

[Eliseus]

I want MNK to get Dual-Wield! TWO SETS OF KNUCKLES MEANS TWICE THE POUNDING!

That's what she said!