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Name: Light Armor
Description: Light armor is just that, very light and poses no restraint on the movement of the body. It also does not help the greatest with damage reduction.
Rank: I/ II/ III/ IV
AR(Armor Reduction): -1 damage/ -2 damage/ -4 damage/ -8 damage (All + NA(Natural armor/Con mod))
DP(dexterity penalty): -0 dex/ -0 dex/ -0 dex/ -0 dex/
Requirements: Lvl 1/ Lvl 10/ lvl 20/ lvl 40
(Examples: clothing, leather armor, Studded leather armor, Scale mail)

Name: Medium Armor
Description: Medium armor cut the movement of the body in exchange for better protection of the body. It stand between light and heavy in both movement restriction and damage reduction, all in all very good armor.
Rank: I/ II/ III/ IV
AR: -3 damage/ -6 damage/ -12 damage/ -24 damage
DP: -1 dex/ -2 dex/ -4 dex/ -8 dex/
Requirements: Lvl 1, Str 5+/ Lvl 10, Str 10+/ lvl 20, Str 20+/ lvl 40, Str 40+
(Examples: chain mail, cuirass, Bone mail, Plate mail)

Name: Heavy Armor
Description: Heavy armor when you want to be clad like a tank, and just as heavy. Heavy armor shrugs off all but the greatest damage with ease, but you'll have to repair a great deal of nicks and scratches because you wont be avoiding many attacks.
Rank: I/ II/ III/ IV
AR: -6 damage/ -12 damage/ -24 damage/ -48 damage (All + NA)
Penalty: -2 dex/ -4 dex/ -8 dex/ -16 dex/
Requirements: Lvl 1, Str 5+, Con 10+/ Lvl 10, Str 25+, Con 10+/ lvl 20, Str 60+, Con 20+/ lvl 40, Str 100+, Con 40+
(Examples: Drake scale armor, Colossal plate mail, Diamond armor, Dragon bone armor)

I think the daggar class should have the dex mod added to the damage, rather than the str mod. This is mainly ebcause the only people fit enough to do a sneak attack well would be a rogue-like person, and they don't do well in strength in the first place.

Most definitely Dex with daggers and knives. Also, will skills also count with dex? Due to ninjas throwing objects (one of their main skills.) and thieves stealing skills?

Edit:Also, how about some race specific weapons and armor? Maybe they can be earned through quests?

Well i do agree that strength would be used for pushing through armor, i still think dex should be used for some classes. Why? Well because i think a thief, assassin, or ninja would aim for the places armor didn't cover, and only go for a swift strike other than hard blow. Though i do think this would be hard to do all the time in combat, so maybe using dex instead of str could be granted only in case of sneak attack? However whenever used in straight forward combat its str

I think it could be argued that one handed swords can have enough room in the handle to use two handed. Lets look at the long sword for example! Though this one isn't that big of a deal to me, just something i thought i should point out. I was just thinking of this skill here since i've been playing through FF5 lately:
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Double_Grip

s**t… my little minions have been helping more than I thought. You rat bastards do love me. XD

OK, I’m tweaking gig’s stuff to fit into the system better now. (don’t worry gig, I just fix the formatting and such, not really the numbers unless their really off.)

Anyway, yea I already did the dagger and knuckle and a few others that Gig has up there.

The dagger class, at first, you only add your strength. But once you’ve learned the Master Dagger ability (fairly easy to learn) you start adding half your dex mod to it for the exact reasons you guys mentioned. When your unskilled with the dagger, you’ll just be using mostly your strength. But once you know how to use it, you’ll learn how to do quick flick of the wrists during a stab or other neat tricks that would be hard/impossible with bigger weapons. Thus, dex can be added.

Knives and daggers, for the cases of this guild at least, are being treated as basically the same thing. This is because there’s not really a big enough difference, in my opinion, to separate them. If anyone has some ideas as to why they should be split, I’m all ears.

As with great swords, as Zineal pointed out, these are traditionally two handed weapons, even for big bulky dudes. So for these that HAVE to use two hands, no, the 1.5 damage thing won’t be kept. However, for swords or weapons that don’t have to use two hands (or if you learn the ability that lets you wield two handed weapons with one hand) then you add the 1.5 damage. At any rate, great swords, by my design, are already going to do a crap load more damage than regular swords.

@Shizuka: I could kiss you… truly I could. I hadn’t even thought of race specific equipment. However, as Gig stated, for right now we probably won’t do that or only have a very limited selection until the guild grows a bit.

As for the dex going with class abilities, yep. It will depend on the ability obviously but the ones you pointed out are two good ones.

@Gig: you do have a technical point there with daggers gig but once you’ve punctured the armor, you’d be able to twist your wrist or shift your hand a bit to do a little more damage. This would be a lot harder to do with a full on sword and such (to much surface area) but with a dagger, it’d be easy to make smaller cuts and side slashes once you’ve pierced the armor.

Hmmm hadn’t taken a close look at the bows yet. How about a nice happy medium with bow and arrows(and crossbows technically) half str and half dex added to weapon damage. Cause you could be the strongest person in the world but if you can’t aim, the arrow is useless. To the same point, you could be the most accurate person in the world but if you can’t pull the bow back far enough to make the distance, your still useless.

Basically you said exactly what I feel about the race specific armor and such. With weapons, I could see there being a few that are restricted because of the way their used. Like say a gun with really small trigger holds fit only for a moogles hands. Since moogles are so small, that’s perfectly conceivable. Or maybe an axe that so ignorantly huge that only large muscular classes (ranso and such) can wield them or even get a grip on them. Or, we could always go the really cheap and lazy route and say their magically sealed to only react to certain races XD.

@Rin: A paladin moogle is still just one fo the most adorable things I can think of… I’m sorry.

@carlos: I try my best, dood.

Paladin moogles? D'awww! But I'm so picking a moogle for my race, the ivalice ones are so damn cute and yet they can fight like any other race.