A scan has leaked from this week's Famitsu that reveals some of the equipment that will be made available to Gladiator and Pugilist. Square Enix will most likely update the official site tomorrow for foreign fans, but you can read on for a sneak peek!

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I'm digging the styles of armor. I'm not a huge heavy armor fan but that gladiator looks pretty cool. The weapons also look sessy. I can't wait.

Seeing that the campaign code is for a FF14 item, hopefully that means the release date for 14 is sooner than we think. /em crosses fingers.

I'm loving the look of pugilist =D

Pretty pictures are pretty :D

Is gladiator a paladin or warrior ? Cause i reaally wanna b a pld : /

From what we have learned so far, Gladiator is both a paladin and a warrior, while at the same time, neither a paladin nor a warrior. As far as we know, based purely on the information that has been released so far, Gladiator is the word used to describe one who wields a sword (it is unclear at this time if Gladiator is being used to describe both two-handed and one-handed swords; this article implies that hand-and-a-half swords are in the realm of Gladiator, as well as one-handed short swords). If you want to play a paladin in FFXIV, very likely you will be playing a Gladiator who has access to white magic (there has been a bit of information released about crossover classes being possible through equipment granting spells and abilities).

We can take that one step further by asking: what is a paladin? Is it a job that uses a sword and holy magic? Or is it a job that uses a sword and is highly defensive? Or is it both? We have information implying (but again not directly telling us) that different weapons within a class of weapons (short-sword for instance) will give very different abilities. So a paladin may be a Gladiator with a defensive sword and defensive shield.

As you can see, everything is very fluid right now. You can't really say a Gladiator is a paladin or a warrior, but you can't say it's not either.

Edited, Nov 11th 2009 4:43pm by Hulan

Edited, Nov 11th 2009 4:44pm by Hulan

This is giving me a Demon's Souls vibe in terms of character customization for combat.

the variety of weapons for each "class" makes me wonder...

are these variety of weapons gonna make things change?
are these weapons require different skill level to be equpped, so that it will limits my character to grow the way i want?

anyone undersands what i am trying to say?

There are some hints on the updated site about the different attributes of the various equipment. Sounds like Hora will degrade quickly but are "imbued with the instincts and ferocity" of beasts, which could mean a lot of things. Baghnakhs will apply some kind of status effects. I didn't pick up much from the sword descriptions apart from the usual quick/weak versus slow/powerful. Although the lantern shield seems to have some interesting traits...

I'm curious as to how the lantern shields for gladiators work. From what I read in the description it combines both offensive and defensive features. Do you think that means good for shield bashing? Or maybe a range weapon that's a shield/deathly frisbee kinda thing?

The image that accompanied the description looked awkward to carry around. What do you guys think?

Edit: Ah, I posted this before checking out another thread on the site update discussing the same thing. Sorry about that!

Edited, Nov 12th 2009 2:44pm by Soiyer

I noticed the same thing.

Looks to me like SE's actually putting Throwing to some use this time around.

What I'm wondering, is if certain weapon types give you access to different abilities. It's safe to assume that a 1 handed sword makes you a gladiator. Well, what if your abilities depended on the type of weapon you use, as a gladiator? Short sword vs long sword. Or any other variety. I think it would add a crazy amount of depth and customization to each person's taste and style.

QFT