I'm just making a list of weapons which are unique in that they give jobs a wider range of red procs which allows for people to be able to go out with less people can cover more red procs to get key items more efficiently with less people. Here is the general wiki page for procs Wikipage
Just a quick run through of weapons with their red procs sword Red lotus Blade, Seraph Blade dagger Cyclone, Energy Drain polearm raiden thrust scythe Shadow of Death greatsword Freezebite katana Blade: Ei great katana Tachi:Koki, Tachi: Jinpu staff Earth Crusher, Sunburst Club Seraph strike
So getting to my point. There are some common weapons like staff and club that have weapons all jobs can wear.
Staff - Pick your favorite elemental staff or rank 10 signet staff there are a lot of these Going as any job /WAR, /PLD, /MNK, /WHM gives you access to both earth crusher and Sunburst(Not WHM) however to gain access to sunburst requires a little more effort as you only have 144 staff skill. There are 2 peices of equipment which give staff skill Temperance Torque(7) and Hakke Hachimaki(5) if all else fails 3 staff merits will also provide the weapon skill.
club - Like staff there are quite a few low level clubs that can easily be picked up. Again /WAR, /WHM, /BLU, /PLD, /DRK, /SAM provide this
Dagger - Most jobs have access to one of these for the very few that don't there is the Trainee Knife obtained through a quest. sub jobs for access, finally WS that WAR doesn't have natively /THF /RDM, /DNC, /RNG, .BRD, /NIN, /PLD, /SCH. PLD and SCH don't offer energy Drain. even with equipment the 3 jobs without dagger skill Can't get Energy Drain.
Sword - there are 3 now swords which are wearable by all jobs. Ibushi Shinai, Trainee knife(obtainable without an event), and Ark Sword. SJ that offer both weapon skills /PLD, /WAR, /DRK, /PLD.
Polearm - There is only 1 weapon useable by all jobs a pitchfork available during the harvest festivals. SJ /WAR, /DRG, /PLD. Nothing special about skill for this.
Scythe - Again only 1 weapon for all jobs. If you were playing last summer you could have done the online thing to get An Ark Scythe now i think you need to win a rank 4 in the bonanza to get one of these. /WAR and /DRK only
Greatsword- Nothing to do here no all job weapons.
Katana - One all job katana Trainee Burin. I can't verify this on wiki but Ragnarok.Ejiin at http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/35200/the-parthenon-a-warriors-kyklos he claims that WAR can get 13/13 WS which means there is a way to get 25 skill above what /NIN gives 5 from Hamachi 7 from torque and 7 katana merit. Requires some dedication to wanting all the procs but is it there if you want
Great Katana - There are a few GKs 3/4 from the the feast of sword and there is this the Shinai which is from leveling your NPC. /NIN gives 144 GK skill I might be missing something but I only see enough to get 172 skill 175 needed for Koki. 5 from abyssea(5) head, ZM earring(5), and Sea neck(7), and merits(16). Going as /SAM offers 150 skill so less merits are needed but remove the option of having katana and dagger as for WAR.
So in conclusion NIN having all red procs has 12/13 missing Greatsword WAR having all red procs has 13/13.
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