I'm not saying the new gun class is going to be... but its going to be...

[Bluevann]

I too am expecting the gun class to be Musketeer. It wouldn't be the first time Yoshida plays tricks to try and get people to brainstorm about his words just for fun. My best bet is that when he said "it's not going to be what people are expecting", he was mostly referring to the playstyle. A lot of people are basically expecting something identical to Archer but with a gun, and I'm sure he'd want something more different. But as for lore, guild and name, yes, my bets are all on Musketeer.

With all that aside, I don't really mind which it will be, long as it will come with one-handed gun/s. I've got enough of two-handed guns in FFXI.

[Duelle]

I too am expecting the gun class to be Musketeer. It wouldn't be the first time Yoshida plays tricks to try and get people to brainstorm about his words just for fun. My best bet is that when he said "it's not going to be what people are expecting", he was mostly referring to the playstyle. A lot of people are basically expecting something identical to Archer but with a gun, and I'm sure he'd want something more different. But as for lore, guild and name, yes, my bets are all on Musketeer.

The only thing I can think of to make musketeer different from archet would be an ammo/heat system to act as a limiter for certain attacks and abilities. Not much else you can do with a ranged class as they'd need to be able to kite, open gaps and so on. And I still think that if musketeer were to be introduced, physical ranged (Archer, Bard, Musketeer, etc) would need their own limit break.

With all that aside, I don't really mind which it will be, long as it will come with one-handed gun/s. I've got enough of two-handed guns in FFXI.

Despite how they handled the tiny things that passed themselves off as guns, FFXI's guns looked more like one handed guns rather than two-handed guns. I'd expect the musketeer to actually use muskets and have the double-barrelled pistols we've seen on the NPCs as an option (not unlike one-handed and two-handed thaumaturge weapons).