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

[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).

[Dark-Saviour]

I still just want a rifleman/sniper.
Even dual pistols is kind of meh, but if they saddle them with a sword or something, that's just one more class to not care about. :-/

[ruskie]

Didn't Yoshi in somewhere mentioned that the gun user will be a chemist and will be not what people expect...?

[Sessurea]

Sword dps with gun skill non gcds sounds nice.

[Fated]

Didn't Yoshi in somewhere mentioned that the gun user will be a chemist and will be not what people expect...?

He never said it'd be Chemist, but he did say it would be something people would not expect.

Honestly, I hope it is Chemist. We are long overdue for a healer that shoots things and tosses questionable liquids at allies.

[Tupsi]

He said it'll be something people won't expect meaning:

1. Goes back to him not playing XI and he ends up making Corsair again, because that's something no one would have expected when you mention "Gunner", because how many MMOs have a Gunner that's also an amazing support role?
2. He stated it'll be a Magic user, so not chemist, but will be a "mage".

It'd be easier if he just...told people about it. Hell we were getting info on Blue Mage and Corsair up to a year prior to it's release when they were showcasing ToAU expansion for XI, even if some of the main stuff they showed off we never got for Blue Mage, e.g Spider Web.

[FriendlyUncle]

Except if it isn't using magic with the sword it ain't a RDM.
Actually no. Cutlass is more in line with the cavalry saber, except the saber is longer while the cutlass is wider and shorter. Rapiers are used as thrusting weapons while the cutlass and saber are made for cutting. That's two entirely different fighting styles.

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My money is still on the gunblade class being our "gun class that we didn't expect". Probably a healer based on how Cid acted in combat.

Thank you, I am not the only one that didn't over look the fact that Cid is basically a Chemist. Ranged tanks almost never work well, and I doubt it is going to be a DD since we are all ready saturated with them. The gun class will be a Chemist of sorts using 'Potions' like Aqua Vitae and Fortis for heals/buffs/debuff. I say 'Potions' because these will not be consumables.

He said it'll be something people won't expect meaning:

1. Goes back to him not playing XI and he ends up making Corsair again, because that's something no one would have expected when you mention "Gunner", because how many MMOs have a Gunner that's also an amazing support role?
2. He stated it'll be a Magic user, so not chemist, but will be a "mage".

It'd be easier if he just...told people about it. Hell we were getting info on Blue Mage and Corsair up to a year prior to it's release when they were showcasing ToAU expansion for XI, even if some of the main stuff they showed off we never got for Blue Mage, e.g Spider Web.

Where did he mention it will be a magic-user? Serious question, not being a rear end in a top hat. I never saw that mentioned in anything I looked over.

[Tupsi]

Where did he mention it will be a magic-user? Serious question, not being a rear end in a top hat. I never saw that mentioned in anything I looked over.

It was an off comment sometime around E3 where he said that it'll use Magic, trying to remember exactly when since it was when he was throwing out some details about Rogue/Ninja and people kept asking about Musketeer/Gunner.

[FriendlyUncle]

It was an off comment sometime around E3 where he said that it'll use Magic, trying to remember exactly when since it was when he was throwing out some details about Rogue/Ninja and people kept asking about Musketeer/Gunner.

Ah, thank you. I'll see if I can find a video or something. That would be an entirely new aspect to look at, for now I still put my money on Chemist but I could be wrong. We are sorely lacking caster DPS and healers, but we're about at the end of the usual gimmicks for healers.

[Brightshadow]

Ah, thank you. I'll see if I can find a video or something. That would be an entirely new aspect to look at, for now I still put my money on Chemist but I could be wrong. We are sorely lacking caster DPS and healers, but we're about at the end of the usual gimmicks for healers.

Chemist has nothing to do with magic.

I too agree that it probably is chemist because in the history of Final Fantasy we don't have many healers other than white mage, chemist, and now potentially dancer since in FFXI they were healers.