What is crossbow type that you want to see in this game?

Let's talk about future,future expansion. The next possible physical ranged DPS should use crossbow as their weapon before they make new type of weapon because it is general ranged weapon in series and other game. (But I like to Ranged DPS that use throwing weapon e.g. Boomerang/Big shuriken/Rinoa's Blaster Edge as weapon too)

However, crossbow have a lot of type. Let's talk about what is crossbow type that you want to see in this game?

Note: The sample come from action game that have different gameplay from FF14. So, don't compare in term of action gameplay style. I want show about weapon characteristics only for clearly understanding.

1. Heavy crossbow - (Sample) - Slow attack speed, need to reload every shot but hard hitting. This is generic crossbow that can easily to make function same as present BRD's bow and MCH's gun (including charge stance) but no challenge and different feel from BRD and MCH if they do it.

2. One-handed crossbow - (Sample 1)(Sample 2) - Fast rapid shooting light cross bow that can wield it in one handed. Now, We still lack of rapid attacking ranged weapon in this game. If they can develop it, this weapon style will make different gameplay from BRD and MCH.

3. Crossbow Gun (Sample 1)(Sample 2) - The mix of crossbow and gun, it has fast rapid shooting with heavy crossbow looks. Many game like to make them have ability to use bomb and grenade too.

Note: For rapid shooting in this game, I mean weaponskill that can do multiple hit same as "Dream Within a Dream" or "Barrage" with multiple shooting animation like "Empyreal Arrow" because this game can't break 2.5 sec global cooldown system. However, if they have a lot of Ability to fullfil GCD gap like MCH, this will make the shooting feel more rapidly better.

Siege bow class sits/lays down ranged using a ballista, slow firing but deadly like really fact all ranged dps are going caster like why not?

Autocrossbow, Ala FFVI... the original Machinist's go to for pain.

Definitely would want some sort of light - weight rapid firing crossbow. Let's just hope whatever job gets it isn't anchored to the ground like brd/mch.

Chu-ko-nu.

Hammer with big knock back.

Berserker class.

Lala-sized ones of course.

http://freegifmaker.me/img/res/1/5/3...3112048473.gif

I feel like there is still a strong desire for a dual wielding gun class like that of Admiral Merlwyb, so maybe a dual wielding light crossbow user would be a nice substitute. I imagine it being acrobatic like Diablo III's Demon Hunter. I would be happy with a standard size crossbow user as well though since I feel like that would suit the aesthetic of the Ranger job more. Either weapon type is something I definitely would like to see.

I don't want a crossbow. Gimme blowpipes, slingshots, gunblades, dual wielding guns, portable catapults, rubber bands, etc

But no crossbow.

You know Billy Lee Black from Xenogears?

He wields two revolvers (Handgun); two short rifles of unlimited ammo, each one hidden in a sleeve of his trenchcoat (Ether-gun), and a powerful shotgun that he pulls from his back (Big gun).

He changes weapons mid-combo when changing between weak, medium and strong attack. That would be cool in this context.

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Originally Posted by lunar_seraphim

I feel like there is still a strong desire for a dual wielding gun class like that of Admiral Merlwyb, so maybe a dual wielding light crossbow user would be a nice substitute.

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Linkle cosplays everywhere.

the trouble with crossbow is outside repeating crossbow, that are quite bulky, you generally need to reload the crossbow....

with a world a la FF14 we can get gun or even magigun that will more fitting that crossbow sadly. only my personal thought.

Guns made crossbows obsolete historically since both have the same firepower, but you can smack someone more easily with a gun.

Chainblades :D

Maybe auto crossbow like one from Van Hellsing movie that had a cylinder to it. It could be reloaded really fast and held huge amount of bolts.

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Originally Posted by silentwindfr

the trouble with crossbow is outside repeating crossbow, that are quite bulky, you generally need to reload the crossbow....

with a world a la FF14 we can get gun or even magigun that will more fitting that crossbow sadly. only my personal thought.

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FFXIV's long GCD could cover the reload time.

Most likely, reloading would either be quietly ignored (like bards' endless quivers) or given a handwave of some kind (like machinists' aetherotransformers).

I mean, this is a setting where a three-foot person in a swimsuit can hold off a dragon the size of a large house. Realism is best left at the door.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Most likely, reloading would either be quietly ignored (like bards' endless quivers) or given a handwave of some kind (like machinists' aetherotransformers).

I mean, this is a setting where a three-foot person in a swimsuit can hold off a dragon the size of a large house. Realism is best left at the door.

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Well if realism is best left at the door, why bother with a real weapon?

Whatever requires the bolt to actually be launched by the string, rather than, say, the string staying put while bolts launch through muzzle flashes...

So, for now... option 1.

Why crossbow when you can grenade launcher?

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Originally Posted by DeaconMoore

Why crossbow when you can grenade launcher?

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Why a grenade launcher when you can have a weapon that turns your enemies into candy?

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Originally Posted by Edax

Why a grenade launcher when you can have a weapon that turns your enemies into candy?

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Who says a grenade launcher can't do that?

Mm, chunky salsa.

Gatling crossbow

It would be interesting if they had a Sword/Cross-bow Job. They have the concept in Kingdom Hearts 3 for the character in Verum Rex.

https://i.redd.it/kooonexoq8k21.png

He basically used the cross-bow to fire range magic bolts and perform group gathering magic attacks so he can use his sword for melee range though it seem he is Sword Melee first but Magic Range attack with Corssbow secondary.

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Originally Posted by DeaconMoore

Why crossbow when you can grenade launcher?

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I would save that for Chemist Healer Job.

It will be more efficient than throwing the containers of chemicals and longer range. :p

No thank you to crossbow.

Scythe. HAHA yes botanist has one, oh, you're so very funny. HAH yes, it is in the cash shop, oh, you're so very funny.

...No. I mean an actual melee or ranged dps job that uses a Scythe as the main weapon.

I don't think need a crossbow. What like to see is classes that uses whips, battle staffs and war hammers.

I gotta admit, I really don't like crossbows that function merely like reskinned semi-automatic pistols...

A good off-hand pistol with a devastating poison or explosive bolt? All for it. So long as I actually have to reload it later.

To be clear, repeater crossbows are fine, too, so long as they actually show the mechanisms for the reload instead of just autonomously resetting their draw and teleporting arrows into their flight groove without the slightest excuse of arcane workings.

Heck, give me the teleport-o-crossbow-machine-gun thing, but only if there's enough arcane magic involved elsewhere that the gunner isn't delving into an entire field of magic -- at some rank-80 level of mastery -- just to provide a one-off gimmick to excuse their weapon. Give me a proper Devicer, with the crossbow being just a part of that, maybe paired alongside rune-casting, self-charged aetherochemical vials for explosives, setting or adjusting ley lines, and whatever else would make efficient use of that core training.

I'd rather see us getting cannoneer from tactics.A slow heavy hitting physicalranged dps job.

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

I gotta admit, I really don't like crossbows that function merely like reskinned semi-automatic pistols...

A good off-hand pistol with a devastating poison or explosive bolt? All for it. So long as I actually have to reload it later.

To be clear, repeater crossbows are fine, too, so long as they actually show the mechanisms for the reload instead of just autonomously resetting their draw and teleporting arrows into their flight groove without the slightest excuse of arcane workings.

Heck, give me the teleport-o-crossbow-machine-gun thing, but only if there's enough arcane magic involved elsewhere that the gunner isn't delving into an entire field of magic -- at some rank-80 level of mastery -- just to provide a one-off gimmick to excuse their weapon. Give me a proper Devicer, with the crossbow being just a part of that, maybe paired alongside rune-casting, self-charged aetherochemical vials for explosives, setting or adjusting ley lines, and whatever else would make efficient use of that core training.

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Honestly, at this point anything Range is going to have some Magic involved with producing the Ammo just like Bard (more so obvious now due to 6.0 new skill animations once you evolve the skills into 6.0 versions) and Machinist.

Though as I said, I would prefer to see it as a Sword/Crossbow Job that focus on Melee Sword fight with Crossbow as a Secondary weapon for some Off-combo skills or some other mechanic to combine both Sword and Crossbow combat for that Modern Assassin or Demon Hunter style Job.

Bard doesn't have magic involved in generating arrows. It's just quietly ignored, because constantly having to buy ammo just to play is a pain in the ass.

I'd rather just leave the crossbows to being ranged physical's lb1.

I'd like to see dual maces job as a melee dps, beast master as ranged physical and a chemist or field medic as a healer.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Bard doesn't have magic involved in generating arrows. It's just quietly ignored, because constantly having to buy ammo just to play is a pain in the ass.

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Bard's skills get updated into Magic created Arrows in the 6.0 version of their skills. The Bard arrows are now all 100% Magic Arrows created by their Magic once they are level 80 even the Burst Shot (6.0 version of Heavy Shot) is pure Blue Energy Magic arrow.

Yes they started out as using normal wood made arrows but their Skill upgrades moved them into Magic Arrows with 6.0 bring Bard into the 100% Magic Arrow now with their lvl 71 to 80 Skill Upgrades and animation changes with those skill upgrades.

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Originally Posted by VictorTheed

I'd like to see dual maces job as a melee dps, beast master as ranged physical and a chemist or field medic as a healer.

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Yes, please. I would not mind any of these suggestions. In addition to that, the dual maces job could possibly be a weapons master and have access to other dual weapons besides maces. (Or perhaps other weapon types through glamour like the PLD, DRK, GNB clubs, WAR dwarven hammer). I have always wanted to wield dual weapons much like Ravana.

Beastmaster with a whip as their main weapon.

And Chemist / Field Medic / Salve Maker wielding some sort of ranged weapon. I want Chemist as the next healer job most of all.

Do we need another physical ranged job? Given that it's just a sub-type of ranged in general but with freer movement.

You could argue in the past that they had more of a support angle going on to differentiate them further from casters, but that has been mostly stripped out to make them operate on the same general sliding scale of support vs. dps that every other role does.

I'm still waiting for them to use those rifle models loafing around in Limsa and Haukke manor.
I think we can come up with a compromise though. We can reinvite the Monster Hunter crew


https://i.imgur.com/DWPI3CP.jpg

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Originally Posted by Jandor

Do we need another physical ranged job? Given that it's just a sub-type of ranged in general but with freer movement.

You could argue in the past that they had more of a support angle going on to differentiate them further from casters, but that has been mostly stripped out to make them operate on the same general sliding scale of support vs. dps that every other role does.

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True. At present we simply have 7 melee and 9 ranged, or 4 melee dps vs. 6 ranged dps (of which half are more mobile than the other half, but not in any particularly relevant way).

I am not too found of crossbows to begin with. I'd see that weapon not as a main weapon but tied to a skill, something like the machinist flamethrower.

As for a different class a pet tamer melee would be cool, using some exotic weapons, maybe nets and whips and various combo with the beast pet for mobiity and heavy attacks.

While we're at it, a magiteck exoskeleton melee dps. that would be awesome with Lala pilots, if nothing else. =D