[TheCommonNoob]

Can Special Armament be made into a main class thing instead of being mono-class thing?

Ever since the rework hype has died down and we take an objective look at the class itself, it's still in a pretty bad shape. With how much negatives to hit there are and the massive amount of work that is involved compared to just being a duelist ranger and critting someone three times for probably more damage you'll ever do by the time you do your singular cool move, there's not much point to playing an Arbalest other than the fantasy of shooting a big gun/bow.

This would at least put it back on the menu for some niche builds.

[Autumn]

It took away quite a few class synergies, either more hybrid weapons would have to be in place, or the restriction that was added would need to changed.

[Druby]

Special Armament allowing you to use any weapon as Arbalest's sidearm seems strange a mono-class only ability. Mono-classing archer precludes you from the vast majority of weapon skills that you would often want to play with when using Arbalest to begin with, as part of the whole class is wielding a ranged and a melee weapon. Depriving yourself of all other melee weapon skills is an extremely steep cost for more weapon variety, and one that is probably never going to be used. Changing this to mainclass only seems like a much more fair compromise, and allows for more build variety, when in its current iteration, it's practically never seeing any use.

[Snake]

This would be a positive addition to the class. And Main Arbalest sucks, for having to trade away things such as Parry, Fleur, etc.