This looks like heavy armor for you? Its much more like RDM clothes

Hard to say. You're right in that illustrations tend to exaggerate and inaccurately reflect what will be implemented in game. But the AF doesn't necessarily have to fit or revolve around a weapon type. However, I think with their choice of the word "fencer" will ultimately have it be single handed swords. Hopefully SE will introduce a new sword type that has a higher end DMG and delay while still staying below two-handed territory in dmg/delay ratios.

Hmmm maybe but I would guess that will break their idea of relic having highest base damage in their category. I would rather expect Rune Fencer ability to buff himself to deal much higher WS damage with same swords we have now.

yea, the other job thread had a line "another nail in rdm's coffin", all the while knowing nothing about how the job is going to actually work. knowing the facts are kind of important before you go making statements on them.

No job in this game has skill in a single weapon. I'll wager they'll give them A- in Sword and A+ in Great Sword before I'd wager anything else. I also suspect they will not have shield skill of any kind, but just from the art you can see that they wield both Sword and Great Sword. The ones they hold look radically similar to Caladbolg and Almace even.

So let me get this right..

We ask for an expansion.. we get it..
We ask for new jobs.. we get them too..

And all we do is ***?

I mean ***.. we literally know nothing bout any of the jobs and expansions..Lets see how it all plays out before we start crying to mommy how this job and that job killed other jobs.

Oh WoTG how excited everyone was for you, after we saw no progress on you..people then got tired of you.

Grant it i still wish they woulda put more work into WoTG.. So my only hope bout all this is i hope the new expansion turns out better then WoTG did.

But as for Rune Fencer... I am excited to see what it brings..

I will just keep an open mind bout it and I will wait for more details before i make my asumption.

only read parts of this theard how are can you say rune fencer is the rdm killer? its clearly geomancer hat will kill off rdm....

I was hopeing for necromancer. This jobs looks like a new blu style job that its a mage who dds at least this job looks better than geomancer.

Wake me up when they announce Chemist as a new job. :/

eww another lame single-hand sword job, bad DPS no thanks.

Was it concifmed if this job use 1hand or 2hand weapon?

It was all speculation, there is no concrete proof yet.

Not to mention it's being marketed as a tank, not a DPS.

I still think they will have GS anyway...I mean two pictures of the concept art is all we have atm, and both guy and girl are wielding greatswords.

damnit proth

Sarcasm?

*serious face on*

I'd imagine they'll ninja add these jobs to atleast emps, if not relic/mythic. I don't see them making a whole new batch of legendary weapons personally. I'd welcome it however, just hope it's not as easy as emps.

Jungle Artifacts ofc

already got ***yoichi/Gandiva ;(

next up: rock sling-shot?

Poison dart blowgun

The concept art picture really does look like a Great Sword, or a huuuge 1hand.

***son, we getting all fancy weaponary 'ere

I want a legendary rapier/epee

2hand rapier!

All I took away from this entire thread so far is "I wanna be able to use my really old bandwagon'd weapon on the new job next year,QQ!"

aight bro, on your bike then

Maybe they'll add the ability for your swords to be buffed by a BLM in the party like Vivi did for Stiener..

meteor infused in my sword

Something about the wording makes me think it'll be "next attack only en-spell"

Here's what I think. SE added new dev team members when ffxiv was ish. They added a test server so we could do half the testing for them. They started only fixing things and tweaking things that existed and were often complained about. Abyssea seemed to take the game in a new direction then leave it dead there. So the question is why? Maybe because they had all the devs working on a real expansion for the first time in years. One that wont be a cheap re-skin, one that won't be full of bugs and glitches, and "tanaka" (balance) issues. I have a feeling this is the first step in growing the game again seeing as its their main moneymaker. I say Bravo FFXI devs. Don't listen to the crying. THIS IS WHY WE CAN"T HAVE NICE THINGS. Even if its ish. just shut up and thank them for giving you something new. they really didn't have to. see everquest