A Weapon is the piece of equipment that a unit will use in battle, either primarily or secondarily. Whenever the standard Attack command is used, the unit will attack the target with their equipped weapon. Sometimes a weapon can be used in the attack, though not actually used to attack. An example of this would be Mages using their equipped rods and staves to cast their magic. Another example could be whenever a character uses the weapon to initiate some form of powerful attack.

Some Job classes, such as the Red Mage, Blue Mage, and Gladiator can use a variety of weapon types, while the Mime class often does not use weapons at all, rather relying on its own special skills.

Forced Equipped WeaponsEdit

Although in most games weapons are optional to be equipped, some games forces characters to have equipped weapons. This applies to:

• Final Fantasy VII
• Final Fantasy VIII
• Final Fantasy IX
• Final Fantasy X
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Final Fantasy XIII-2
• Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
• Final Fantasy Type-0

Common Weapon TypesEdit

• Axes and Hammers - used by the Berserker and Viking classes.
• Bells - commonly used by Geomancers as weapons.
• Bombs - explosives used by various characters in several games.
• Books - weapon of choice of Scholars and the like.
• Bows, Crossbows, and Guns - ranged weapons equipped by Corsairs, Rangers, Hunters, Archers, and Gunners.
• Cards and Dice - the weapons favoured by Gamblers.
• Daggers - common weapons for Thieves.
• Dark Swords/Fell Swords - a type of sword unique to the Dark Knights.
• Gunblades - swords with have either triggers to enhance the damage they cause or change forms between sword and gun modes, which were prominently used by Squall Leonhart and Seifer Almasy in Final Fantasy VIII, and Lightning in Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2.
• Instruments - musical instruments such as Flutes and Harps commonly used by Bards.
• Katana - common weapons used by the Samurai and Ninja classes.
• Knight Swords - a type of heavy Swords used mostly by Knights.
• Knuckles - for hand-to-hand combat with the Monk class.
• Lances and Spears - used by the Dragoon class.
• Maces - variable bludgeons used by advanced mage classes such as Sages.
• Nunchaku - alternative weapon to fists for Monks.
• Poles - long sticks used by both melee and magic classes in various games.
• Rackets - used as optional weapons by Dagger and Eiko Carol in Final Fantasy IX, as well as the Selkie tribe in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.
• Rods - used mostly by Black Mages.
• Scythes - wielded by the Dark Knight class in Final Fantasy XI, as well as Sice from Final Fantasy Type-0.
• Staves - used mostly by White Mages.
• Sword - the most common weapon, and has as many branches as classes that can equip them. Broadswords, Sabers, and Rapiers are a few of those. They are mostly used by Warriors.
• Throwing Weapons - generally Thrown by the Ninja class. These include Boomerangs, Chakrams, Shuriken and in some games Scrolls.
• Whips - weapon of choice of Beastmasters and Quistis Trepe from Final Fantasy VIII.

Unique Weapon TypesEdit

• Blaster Edges - projectile weapons used by Rinoa Heartilly in Final Fantasy VIII.
• Blitzballs - balls used in battle by Wakka and by Tidus to perform Blitz Ace in Final Fantasy X.
• Bowswords - a reconfigurable weapons that can switch between bow and sword modes used by Serah Farron in Final Fantasy XIII-2. They are based on the concept of gunblade.
• Brushes - artist's tools used by Relm Arrowny in Final Fantasy VI.
• Cannons/Ordnances from Final Fantasy Legend II and Final Fantasy Legend III respectively.
• Cloths - cloths wielded by the female-only Dancer class in Final Fantasy Tactics.
• Coats - emblems on coats used by Snow Villiers to power up his attacks in Final Fantasy XIII.
• Dolls - animated dolls used in battle by Lulu in Final Fantasy X.
• Forks - eating utensils used by Quina Quen in Final Fantasy IX.
• Gunarms - the other hand of Barret Wallace in Final Fantasy VII is replaced by these changeable weapons.
• Hairclips - razors worn in the mane by Red XIII in Final Fantasy VII.
• Measures - calculating tools used solely in Final Fantasy XII.
• Megaphones - used by Cait Sith in Final Fantasy VII to bark orders to his stuffed moogle.
• SkyBandits - hovering surfboards used by Filo in Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings.
• Souls - spirits of captured monsters used by the one-off Morpher class in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.