So completely ignoring musketeer questions to the producer?

[Venos]

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If the guild is there already, why not get it out the way?

I'd like to see RDM or NIN but I'm in no rush.

[NoctisUmbra]

Neither RDM nor MSK are next in line. Both confirmed by name to be a low priority (particularly RDM between the two) in various interviews by Yoshi-P.

Thief/Ninja or some sort of stealthy/scout type class and/or job is what's expected next.

[SendohJin]

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If the guild is there already, why not get it out the way?

I'd like to see RDM or NIN but I'm in no rush.

because adding a class/job is way more than a guild. it's about lore, animations, itemization and tons of abilities that need to be balanced with all the existing content.

[saber_alter]

Yup you are right. No sites at all.

however you know that the cities were rebuilt right? So if you arent even close to adding musketeer why even put it in the game for launch? If they laid the groundwork building the game and just put it on the back burner they should say something.

because it's easier to use the already existing assets to rebuild a city than start from nothing.

From a dev post in 2012:

irrelevant. the guild building is already in the game, and there is a cutscene in 1.0 where you *almost* join the guild before they go NOPE and kick you out.

[Swagcity]

"Get in line" only makes sense if they were all teased at the same time. We've been waiting for Musketeer for three and a half years. YOU get in line.

Both of you get in line, I want bst Pets and mounts are already in game^^

But seriously; they should just release more than a couple of classes/jobs, there are so many that ppl want. I can see the rage right now after the expansion live letter.

[Tridus1x]

Oh look, a new thread providing a refreshing topic that has never been talked about before!

[Lithera]

Exactly...no one plays a Class at 50 which means they need to develop the JOB that MSK will become. It's also true that their priorities aren't 100% in that direction right now. Also while it's true we only have 1 ranged DPS, unlike FFXI ranged damage is not a different type than melee so effectively we have 2 magic and 3 physical. This says we need a new magic class/job first. Now this can be accomplished with MSK using a modified version of FFXIs COR without the rolls but WITH the elemental shots in the form of the Gun Mage job.

[LlenCoram]

Both of you get in line, I want bst Pets and mounts are already in game^^

But seriously; they should just release more than a couple of classes/jobs, there are so many that ppl want. I can see the rage right now after the expansion live letter.

This would honestly be the best way. As badly as I want Musketeer (three years!), having them release 3 or 4 classes with accompanying jobs simultaneously would be best.

It would also avoid a similar situation to what we had when 2.0 started, where everyone and their dog was an Arcanist and the ground was made of Carbuncles.

[XanderOlivieri]

He already addressed musketeer in a previous live letter. Probably more than one to be honest because people keep asking, as made obvious by this thread.

He said there are greater priorities for class diversity and shared his thoughts on what would be coming next. What we've been led to believe by Yoshi P thus far is that a scout class/job is coming next. He said musketeer will eventually be added, with the guild in the game!e already and a lot of demand for it, but that it was very low on the priority list and it would be a while before we saw it.

That wrapped up the whole musketeer discussion for the short term, or rather it should have. People still keep asking about it though, which is fine, but expecting an answer is silly. If nothing has changed regarding musketeer, and he has nothing new to share, then he'll chose other questions.

I don't remember him giving any priority over another when mentioning Musketeer. I don't recall Musketeer being mentioned with other possible Class and Job ideas. I remember him saying Musketeer does have priority because it does already exist, just needs to be finished, in one of his statements, and in a statement that made no mention of Musketeer, he said he'd like to see more diverse jobs, but those would come later due to more pressing matters.

More Classes and Jobs are the least on their list as far as I can tell, but never once do I remember them specifically saying that anything metaphorically mentioned (Thief, Dark Knight, and Ninja) had more priority than Musketeer. He never gave any priority to the other possible class types. Based on separate and out of context mentions surrounding class and Jobs, Musketeer is the only Class in memory that has been stated to have even a little bit of priority.

This doesn't mean that they'll do it first, but it is the only thing they've acknowledged to need priority. There haven't been any other serious discussions as far as new classes and jobs have been concerned by the developers.

Musketeer not being in Maelstrom is a huge miss on their part. Introducing a new Class with the new quest line would show more involvement with Limsa Lominsa since the Musketeers are part of Lominsa's naval fleet. The Yellow Jackets seem to be the head of the Musketeers as their Captain is one, while Merlwyb is possibly the Job class that extends from Musketeer. Story wise it would have been a perfect opportunity, but if they aren't then its a missed perfect opportunity that they'll just have to do without.

Since they want to add new Classes and Jobs to give Legacy Players more to do between expansions since they are the older players, I think they'll stick with the idea of releasing Classes and Jobs in patches before the first Expansion. Glamour by itself as well as the Master Craftsman Recipes does what adding a new Class would do, albeit for a shorter time, though it is possibly something needed more than new overall battle classes to balance out a few economy issues.

The vanity filler is to give us more to do as they work the kinks for the larger additions.

I also don't think he ignored the questions, I think our translators left them out because they appear so frequently. I think its more them not wanting to bother having to translate the same question over and over again. Please remember that our questions are screened before they are submitted so its not completely the developers fault our questions don't get answered. Our questions were not deemed worth asking because of how frequent, and possibly because people don't listen to the rules when they ask questions.

[Mikejconnor]

we should of had musketeer by now and CT was supposed to come out before BCoB, so yeah >< just cause its the plan dont mean it will come out that way.

but man would i love some new classes/jobs