(04-20-2015, 09:21 PM)Chris Ganale Wrote: It's easy. Take cylinder of metal. Insert crystal of your choice and magitek powercell (Disclaimer: if the Garleans have magitek photocells it stands to reason they'd have similar-sized powercells). Put focusing lens on open end. Boom. Instant lightsaber-style beam saber. Even with elemental variety!
At the risk of sounding incredibly turbo-nerdy I'll go ahead and bite and say nah, that ain't how it's done, bruh. =)
I don't want to derail the conversation too much by talking about Star Wars junk but here, have a link:Â http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber
the tl;dr is that it's a 'blade' of pure plasma held inside a containment field to keep it from lighting you on fire for just being near it. It has a lot of tiny, highly technologically parts that are very miniaturized. The crystals themselves aren't just 'crystal', they're very specific and only come from one planet in that galaxy.
In summary you can't really have a lightsaber in FF14*
*until they introduce them through some handwaved Garlean BS that entirely negates the premise probably
