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[Shurrikhan]

Rapiers on Fencer/Red Mage, Great Sword for Gladiator/Dark Knight makes the most sense to me.
The way the armoury system works, they could just have the pistol/hexagun as their main weapon, bypassing the need for swords.

I'm a Swordsman--I am thereby limited to arming swords?

I don't know. Practically, speaking, in the event that nothing is willing to change in the armory system, adding two-handed swords, rapiers, whips, and pistols would work. It just still seems like a rather slap-on solution, closer to mimicking chess pieces than being actual characters. Though, I guess that's the Tactics-lead point of jobs in the first place. Staying true to that really has very little to say about MMO character development ability. Choose the best gun for the task and learn how to shoot it. Done. That just doesn't feel very RPG to me. It feels like assembly and polish.

Edit: By "arming swords" I'm referring to the relatively broad spectrum of mid-level, hefty-ish one-handed blades often paired with bucklers, not an official "arming sword" (in the same specificity as say a broadsword).