Musketeer/Corsair - Make it Melee and Range?

Why not? The original job from FFXI had both elements, and one mechanism that was pretty useful was using main hand weapons like Joyeuse to build TP and doing weaponskills with gun.

Here's me haphazardly daydreaming how some abilities might work

Lv 1 - Lunge - Deals 140 dmg to target in range.
Lv 2 - Slow Fire - Deals 140 dmg to target at a distance.
Lv 4 - Piercing Mark - Deals 100 melee damage to target, Combo Bonus (Lunge)- 180 dmg. Grants 10% Bonus to Party's Ranged Attacks.
Lv 6 - Crippling Fire - Deals 100 range dmg to Enemies in Cone. Grants 10% Bonus to Party's Melee Attacks
Lv 8 - Shuffle - Gives party buffs based on next 3 attacks executed - (Card Animation)
Ex. Range + Range + Range = Critical Hit Bonus 5%
Ex. Melee + Melee + Melee = Determination Bonus 5%
Ex. Melee + Melee + Range = Magic Damge 5%
Ex. Range + Range + Melee = Physical Damge 5%
Ex. All other combinations = Random effect.
Lv 10 - Double Shot - Deals 100 Damage to ranged target - Combo Bonus (Slow Fire) - 200dmg.
Lv 12 - Quick Draw - Fires non-elemental damage from pistol for 150 (off GCD)
Lv 15 - Accomplice - Causes enmity generated to be given to player in mob's line of sight.

I kinda stopped my fanboy rambling at lv 15, but i think you can see where I was going. It's a party buffing melee/range that can do either exclusively, or combine the two for better outcomes. A big chunk of it's damage is generated by the other members of the party.

Any thoughts?

This is not FFXI though. You need to account for that and how teh battle sytem in this game is somewhat different.

I can see this class acting out as Merlwyb did in the 2.2 cutscene when we sieged the spawn pools. Dual pistols, flashy skills and damage really. a gunslinger style class.

I would love Musketeer; however I really don't see them behaving like a disciple of war I think this time around they will be a disciple of magic because we already have a big balance issue when it comes to the number of physical and magic classes. And we already got archer in the war side.

Just make them the new healing and tanking class.

Personally I think a new class/job that would be fantastic is "swashbuckler"

Sword in the main hand and a pistol in the offhand. The pistol could do more than just shoot bullets, like grappling hooks and the like.

If there will ever be card-related skills, that would be from Corsair, so Lv30+ (assuming it'd evolve to that job), not earlier than that. Musketeer has nothing to do with cards. Not like we know if Eorzea's corsairs would.

I'd rather a Soldier Job (e.g. Cloud/Zac) be hybrid melee/range.

Utilizing Gunblade & Magitek weaponry (grenades).

Could cross-class from Lancer & Musketeer.

Perhaps utilizing an ammunition-system for long-range fire & a sophisticated combo system weaving melee/range seamlessly with acrobatic movements too.

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Originally Posted by Ketsufuma

This is not FFXI though. You need to account for that and how teh battle sytem in this game is somewhat different.

I can see this class acting out as Merlwyb did in the 2.2 cutscene when we sieged the spawn pools. Dual pistols, flashy skills and damage really. a gunslinger style class.

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Can you say "blue Mage!" I'd ship it

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

I would love Musketeer; however I really don't see them behaving like a disciple of war I think this time around they will be a disciple of magic because we already have a big balance issue when it comes to the number of physical and magic classes. And we already got archer in the war side.

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This. FFX-2 Gun Mage comes to mind.

How about both physical and magic? Not sure how square would do this but it would be awesome. On the gear only VIT and two secondary stats Wil be at cap. While STR, DEX and INT Wil be 1/3 of the max cap.

This would make them mediocre attackers but the catch would be they.can attack relentlessly. I don't know my imagination is a bit lacking :P