New Weaponskills

http://dl.square-enix.co.jp/ffxi/US/WS_US0830.wmv

Empyrial weapon WS onry?


Edit: Wrong link
Edit2:

Looks that way.

Well, why ask when it's in the news.

Any case anyone cares about the mythology/etc behind this

"Chant Du Cygne" means "Swansong".

Its the last remarkable work of a Artist or Poet.

Figuratively, the term is used to indicate that we will take leave of people with whom a period of time has been shared.

All from the wiki Page on it ^

GreatKatana:
Fudo is The most popular of the Myoo (great kings), the god of Fire and wisdom.

Katana:
"Hi" pronounce "Hue" apparently means: "The Sun" or "Shine" or "Flame"

Dagger:
Rudra (Devanagari: रुद्र) is a Rigvedic God, associated with wind or storm, and the hunt. The name has been translated as "The Roarer",or "The Howler".

Staff:
Only reference i could dig up for Myrkr was a planet in star Wars.

Archery:
Jishnu is a sanskrit word which is a synonym for Arjuna, a mythical hero in Mahabharatha . Literal meaning of this name is "Victorious". The one and only Jishnu is also known as stickler.

Great Axe:
In Finnish mythology, Ukko, in Estonian mythology Uku, is a god of sky, weather, crops (harvest) and other natural things.

Scythe:
a finishing stroke; anything that effectually ends or settles

Polearm:
Camlann is Arthur's final battlefield on Salisbury Plain where he received his mortal wound by Mordred. The name "Camlamm" is probably derived from the British word Camboglanna, which means "crooked bank" (of a river), or Cambolanda, "crooked enclosure."

Club
Dagon was a major northwest Semitic god, reportedly of fish and/or fishing. He was worshipped by the early Amorites and by the inhabitants of the cities of Ebla and Ugarit (which was an ancient city near the Mediterranean containing a large variety of ancient writings and pagan shrines). He was also a major member, or perhaps head, of the pantheon of the Biblical Philistines.




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That being said, the "Certain arms" are robably those High-Damage magian weapons upgraded via the Walk of Echos coins.

This WS is gonna be pure win!

My guess is they also included in the coin version of the weapons...just a guess though.

most of those look so sick

The bow one, the Dagger one, the Katana one and the Sword one looked cool... oh and the gun one too.

the rest looked kind of meh.

Sword WS = ZORRO!

Gsword and Polearm were the only real "meh" ones I think...big fan of what they did there

Atleast on GS, as they'r using the Ground Strike animation, it's probably gonna be an OK ws D:
I hope..

blade: hi has a big gold dragon.... akin to Goku's Dragon Punch in that DBZ movie.... epic win lol and i WILL be ToMing the corresponding katana now (whether its the coin high dmg or w/e..probably won't do full empyreal, but I WILL have that WS)



(inb4: wrong SSJ level...idc...this ***fits and its funny lol)

I don't know if it's just me, but I'd like to see some new animation though :/

The only new one was the h2h which was a combo howling fist hybrid :/

so the scythe wasn't new? the katana wasn't new? axe wasn't new....sword wasn't new? Gaxe wasn't (mostly) new?

Scythe = Spiral Hell atleast

oh come on...its differnt..this is the same damn thread we had with the last update lol... "oh its reskinning WSs..." gtfo...like we said a few months ago..only so many ways to swing a weapon...the effects/sounds are different so it IS different...



also... thats kind of a contradiction there... they look "good" but you want to see new animation....so you praise but complain in a matter of minutes... ? >_<

Scythe was a Spiral Hell variant

Katana is a polished Blade: Ten

Axe is an Almost Copy > Paste of "Primal Rend"

Great Axe... I know it was the Metatron Torment "pound" at the end.

Sword i can say was probably genuinely new.


Almost all of it is same animation arranged differently but, still nice looking o-o, no complaints here. I guess theres only so many ways you can hit something XD

I'm rather loving the gun one. I mean it will probably suck but it does look neat

Scythe wasn't new, it's Spiral hell. Watching the rest, but most of these are just on races you probably don't see them on often, so they look new.

Hopefully they will add to Weaponskill trials.

Duh reskinned like usual.

Yes, I do. They added effects to make them look more epic, but this game really needs new animation. I don't think it's acceptable that they add new WS with old animation tbh. Do you?

They can look good even if he wishes they didnt reskin animations so much <_> I feel exactly the same way lol

Some of them look really cool, but I would enjoy it if they made some totaly new animations.

man you guys are hard to please lol

Not saying I'm displeased!

So far... bet they'll all suck -_-

I remember Tachi: Ageha.

That's what she said