Huh no gunner preview?

[charlemagne]

Much as the new class and job looked great, where is my damned musketeer? Four years, four long years since I gave up my corsair in xi and joined XIV with it's damned MUSKETEER GUILD in limsa. Still no gun.
At this point it is incredibly strange not to have musketeer. We have a whole city of people running around looking like corsairs. It's a constant slap in the face for all of us who have been waiting for this since first walking in to 1.0 Limsa.

[Kuwagami]

snip.

a musket is more a rifle than a gun tbh x_x

and what exactly don't you understand in

Remember Yoshida saying that the gunner class would be "not the one people are expecting" ?

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Nowhere in 2.X was "musketeer" mentioned. And tbh, I would be disappointed if it was musketeer as a job. There is so much more to do than just pew-pew your way

Ok now I see the muskets.

The other screenshots mean nothing, it could be any gun class. We'll see though. 2 days left on E3, and fan fest coming in Fall

[Xmbei]

[lordparanoia]

I want a magic gunner job Yoshi, please, hear my prayers!

[rwyan]

We still have two more events... one today and one tomorrow. Don't give up hope yet. I doubt they'd play all their cards at the beginning of the game so to speak.

[Orta]

From 2p.com's latest interview:

"Rumors about the Musketeer class were swirling around before Rougue was announced. We asked why it's not Musketeer. Yoshida explained that they wanted a class with stealth ability, and most importantly, it's because of the implement of new PvP content and the developer wanted to make sure that something new will be brought in. So Rogue will have its own way of participating in PvP and he will have unique tactics as well. So now, as Yoshida said, they want to start with Rogue instead of a class with guns which will be similar to mage class that uses magic, but he mentioned they did have the plan to introduce in new class with guns or sort of stuff. And speaking of how stealth will work in PvP, Yoshida said it's a secret at the moment."

[LineageRazor]

Final Fantasy has six iconic jobs: White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage, Warrior, Monk, and Thief. Four of these jobs are represented as jobs in FFXIV. It will be a disservice if Red Mage and Thief are never added. It would also be beyond surprising if either job was added as a CLASS, since none of the four other jobs is a class in this game: they are all jobs that evolve out of other classes.

So, it is no surprise that there is no Thieves' Guild, and instead is a Rogues' Guild comprised of former Thieves. It would also be unsurprising if, in the future, a Thief job were to be added that evolves from the Rogue class, patroned by adventurers who seek to use the less savory skills the Rogues left behind them in an effort to be accepted by polite society.

It is too early to pass judgment either way, but if Red Mage and Thief are never added, it will be a slap in the face to Final Fantasy veterans.

[Ashren]

Final Fantasy has six iconic jobs: White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage, Warrior, Monk, and Thief.

Based on your interpretation of "iconic jobs" you're referring to the available classes from FF1, in which case it is actually White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage, Fighter (Not Warrior), Monk (or Black Belt), and Thief. These then became White Wizard, Black Wizard, Red Wizard, Knight, Master, and Ninja. That last one suddenly makes more sense now right?

[Nestama]

Not exactly true. It seems to me like (if you watched the post Leviathan cutscene) Rogue is what became when the Ninja girl was talking to the thieves about merging their fighting styles into one. It's extremely believable that the two classes that fused their fighting style (Thief and Ninja) will be the two specializations of said fused class (Rogue).

Alrighty, so what 5 abilities can Thief learn if Rogue can already use Steal? Also, keep in mind that Rogue (Thief) becoming Ninja is pretty much a massive FFI reference.

[LineageRazor]

Based on your interpretation of "iconic jobs" you're referring to the available classes from FF1, in which case it is actually White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage, Fighter (Not Warrior), Monk (or Black Belt), and Thief. These then became White Wizard, Black Wizard, Red Wizard, Knight, Master, and Ninja. That last one suddenly makes more sense now right?

Fighter and Black Belt were the results of early translations, the latter of the two probably to avoid raising religious drama, for the same reason that "Holy" became "Fade" (and later "White" and "Pearl"). Later remakes and cameos corrected these early mistakes. That's why you don't see "Fighter of Light" in Dissidia representing Final Fantasy I. Warrior is the intended term.

As for Ninja making sense now - I think you'll find that folks who want Thief to be added to the game are not going to be satisfied with Ninja simply because Thief turned into Ninja in Final Fantasy I. They want a classic Thief, and they want it as a job rather than a class. Whether this will ever happen, I don't know, and don't particularly care since I was never a fan of the Thief job - but I do think that it will cause Drama if it and Red Mage are not eventually added.