Potentail Musketeer Theory

This was pitched at me by a friend early today and as odd as it seems, this might just work for Musketeer/Gun Mage so I thought it might be interesting to share the thought they had with the community.


First, let's take Ninja as an example of a class with a lot of combinations and various effects. The Mudras. I'm no expert on Ninja but from my understanding different symbols combined together give different buffs / effects / attacks from how I understand the class works.

There is an interesting piece of Final Fantasy material out there (often frowned upon by the fan base at large but still is part of the series media). One that uses guns and a mixing system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BYLg80VsYY

Now, Obviously it wouldn't work /exactly/ like that as that class already exists. But let's consider for a moment combining different 'chemicals' or the like to give the party buffs and render damage / debuffs to the monsters.

Would be an interesting support DPS I think some might agree.

Yoshida said in one live letter or two that Musketeer isn't what people think it is and required MRD. But that could've changed since.

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Originally Posted by coldreactive

Yoshida said in one live letter or two that Musketeer isn't what people think it is and required MRD. But that could've changed since.

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I do recall the 'not what we think it is' part but not the MRD one.

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Originally Posted by Nel_Celestine

I do recall the 'not what we think it is' part but not the MRD one.

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Interesting theory and not the first time I've heard it. :)

Also I agree, I have heard the 'not what you expect' but never heard him put a subjob to it, if he did I'd like to see the source.

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Originally Posted by coldreactive

Yoshida said in one live letter or two that Musketeer isn't what people think it is and required MRD. But that could've changed since.

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He did say the first thing. He did not say anything about MRD.

A few people have brought up the Magun and FFU as a possible idea for how the mysterious gun class might be. And honestly, it's as good a theory as anyone has right now.

It would be very interesting for gameplay, quick loading different types of bullet to create a powerful debuff. A class that deals almost exclusively in DoT damage would be quite interesting in my opinion.

Its the MAG Gun theory and one which hi think Yoshida is actually leaning towards. He has Hinted.. "Golden Gun" as in singular and the unlimited Magic gun is Golden. He also hinted that it was not what we thought. Meaning it has a possibility of either being DPS style or Healing style or maybe a hybrid of the two. WE
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WE will find out on the 20th

Please look forward to it!

That's how I was imagining Chemist job would work. Since we won't be using consumables, I imagine it using a combine system similar to how you combine different mudra to achieve a specific effect with ninjutsu. But then again, maybe I just really want another healing class, and preferably one totally different than what we have :)

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Originally Posted by TessaJalloh

A few people have brought up the Magun and FFU as a possible idea for how the mysterious gun class might be. And honestly, it's as good a theory as anyone has right now.

It would be very interesting for gameplay, quick loading different types of bullet to create a powerful debuff. A class that deals almost exclusively in DoT damage would be quite interesting in my opinion.

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An arcanist with guns? An Arcateer or a Muskanist?

I just hope he watched Dead Fantasy and we feel like that! >_>

this makes more since than anything i heard

Seems like the play style would be very similar to the ninja where you perform specific combinations of three to get a desired effect. Very interesting indeed. Also damn that anime is old, reminds of evangelion days and pokemon kanto region.

As far as I know, the only "MRD"-related thing in Musketeer is the guild location: Coral Tower, along with the MRDs, much like how ARM and BSM are in the same building.

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Originally Posted by TessaJalloh

A few people have brought up the Magun and FFU as a possible idea for how the mysterious gun class might be. And honestly, it's as good a theory as anyone has right now.

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This may be true but does not ignore how "out there" that concept is. You'd need to create lore for it and a place for it to come from (my money being on being of Allagan origin). Limsa is out since the yellowjackets that do use guns are just normal people using guns. Putting this sort of thing with the yellowjackets would smell of shoehorned so much that it'd technically be FFXIV's first loreLOL development. Lose-lose if they do that since it would make this yet another year those two muskets behind the axe in the coral tower entrance mean absolutely nothing gameplay-wise.

PS: @OP - there's a reason no one talks about FF:U. Same reason why self-professed "true" FF fans scoff at the existence of Mystic Quest. >.>

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Originally Posted by Duelle

PS: @OP - there's a reason no one talks about FF:U. Same reason why self-professed "true" FF fans scoff at the existence of Mystic Quest. >.>

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I love Mystic Quest ._. It's so cheezy it's good.

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As for how it could be implemented lore wise. You could be the first as an experiment in how the class would work! Being given different "soils" to test out in combination and report back your findings to the guild.

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Originally Posted by TessaJalloh

A few people have brought up the Magun and FFU as a possible idea for how the mysterious gun class might be. And honestly, it's as good a theory as anyone has right now.

It would be very interesting for gameplay, quick loading different types of bullet to create a powerful debuff. A class that deals almost exclusively in DoT damage would be quite interesting in my opinion.

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It needs this battle theme when we start mixing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRoXYjLs6as

I posted about the mudra chemical mixing system possibility for chemist so so long ago XD