(Spoiler, Kinda) Gunblade job 'concern'

The guy in the trailer with the Gunblade (Pretty sure it's Thancred) is wearing an alarming amount of leather.. and not much plate, please don't be another Melee DPS. We need more tanks and healers.

I know NPC outfits are't indicative of a job's role, but it's still concerning to say the least, let's hope this isn't the case.

Honestly, I doubt Thancred would ever wear anything with a lot of plate, so I would take what he is wearing as...Well, not much information.

Why is Thancred using gunblade? Did he change job from rogue?

Well Alisaie switched jobs so let's not rule anything out, but I could see Thancred being a tank.

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Originally Posted by Dirwen

Why is Thancred using gunblade? Did he change job from rogue?

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Time travel?

looks like he was wearing Seifer Almasy's coat from ff8. cuz Gunblader

Ranged DpS with light-armor.

Having new tank and heal is nice and all but, they need to bring something new gameplay wise, not that this will bring anything that amazing to ranged DpS. Can't even begin to understand why it is a thing at all to be honest. Looks like fanservice for edgy 12 years old.

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Originally Posted by SoleilAlphi

looks like he was wearing Seifer Almasy's coat from ff8. cuz Gunblader

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Yeah. He didn't really give off a "tank" vibe, and that'd be perfect for me. With BLU being released with 4.5 (and it being something completely off the wall that I'm sure no one wanted) I think the chances of there potentially being 3 new jobs in 5.0 are reasonably high (tank, dps and healer since we didn't get a tank or healer in SB). What we got was a teaser, so maybe the full trailer will give us a bit more information to work with.

There are plenty of lightly armored bits of tank gear, it's not all heavy metal armors. And, given that things are mostly in line with leaks that's almost certainly a tank class.
Especially if you consider the Trust system they showed off as well, it would make sense to convert at least one of the main characters over to a tank given that it sounds like it's Squadrons but with main characters.

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Originally Posted by EusisLandale

There are plenty of lightly armored bits of tank gear, it's not all heavy metal armors. And, given that things are mostly in line with leaks that's almost certainly a tank class.
Especially if you consider the Trust system they showed off as well, it would make sense to convert at least one of the main characters over to a tank given that it sounds like it's Squadrons but with main characters.

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Now you mentionned it, it make a lot of sens.

Wonder how a half-ranged half-melee fighter can tank that said.