History of the Gunner job.

[Kuwagami]

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Merlwyb, and the "gunner" blazon as well, have been here since 1.0. Merlwyb using guns and stuff, was a tease for 1.0's musketeer (or so I believe).

Then, 1.0 failed, and ARR's development started. I don't know exactly why they left the blazon as they ignored the gun class when 2.0 came (introducing arcanist instead), but for Merlwyb, they just couldn't remove her from the game for obvious reasons (they could have killed her at Carteneau but they didn't), so yeah she's still using a gun. The other various NPCs using a gun so far have been pirates, because iconic pirate outfit includes a gun and a sword.

Then comes an officer from the yellowjackets, using a gun. In my opinion (read it as my own conclusions) it's just an other reference to the origins of Limsa. Yeah she's using a gun, but so is Merlwyb and Merlwyb isn't teasing gun job anymore. If you remember, Ninja came 6 month after yugiri's tease. 4 years of waiting for 1.0 players isn't a tease. It's just people desperately wanting to see a tease.


Again, I could be wrong. But many hints tend to show that the gunner job won't be the musketeer people want it to be.

[Duelle]

Merlwyb, and the "gunner" blazon as well, have been here since 1.0. Merlwyb using guns and stuff, was a tease for 1.0's musketeer (or so I believe).

Merlwyb didn't show up until after Yoshida took over. She was introduced along Raubhan and Kan E Senna to take over the grand companies for the three starting nations. There's a reason they made articles about them when grand companies were implemented, which was also after Yoshida took over.

Then comes an officer from the yellowjackets, using a gun. In my opinion (read it as my own conclusions) it's just an other reference to the origins of Limsa. Yeah she's using a gun, but so is Merlwyb and Merlwyb isn't teasing gun job anymore.

Considering the only allusion to the musketeer guild prior to that was the head of the yellowjackets showing up during a lv15 quest, it's odd they sort of vanish and now you have a reminder that they exist in the rogue storyline. Milala aside, one of the quests did involve the recovery of muskets for the yellowjackets. This could have been ANYTHING else but they chose to have it be muskets for the yellowjackets. Much like how the treaty blade from the Hildibrand quests was a greatsword, and sometime after we got DRK.

[Felis]

Also there is a big difference between Musketeer and Shepherd.
Like the Arcanists, the Musketeers have already since the beginning a guild.
Shepherds never had a guild.

And also this:

[0:15:25]
Q: When will you implement musketeer?

A: Well, we haven't really decided when. We’ve been talking a lot about samurai, ninja, ranger, and thief, etc. but first we're looking to add the class that will be most interesting and effective from the perspective of battle balance. We still don't know which one will be next.

For A Realm Reborn, we're revamping everything. As you can see here, armor and weapon slots will be separated to be on the left and right of the interface. In the case of musketeer, a double-barreled gun is a weapon that requires both hands, so it takes up two slots. But sometimes you might want to dual-wield, so we're making a more flexible system that lets players do this. Naturally, these changes will be introduced properly with major updates in future, so please rest assured.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...809-27-2012%29

[Kuwagami]

Merlwyb didn't show up until after Yoshida took over. She was introduced along Raubhan and Kan E Senna to take over the grand companies for the three starting nations. There's a reason they made articles about them when grand companies were implemented, which was also after Yoshida took over.

then my beliefs were wrong about Merlwyb

Considering the only allusion to the musketeer guild prior to that was the head of the yellowjackets showing up during a lv15 quest, it's odd they sort of vanish and now you have a reminder that they exist in the rogue storyline. Milala aside, one of the quests did involve the recovery of muskets for the yellowjackets. This could have been ANYTHING else but they chose to have it be muskets for the yellowjackets. Much like how the treaty blade from the Hildibrand quests was a greatsword, and sometime after we got DRK.

That, however, is looking too far into it. Or else you could say that because we looked for bombs in Hildibrand quests there is a bomber job coming, or a gunblade job is coming because imperials have it (this might not be unlikely to happen but not anytime soon) and such. And if you wanted to list quests involving a gun, you forgot Merlwyb shooting at her soldiers to test your armor for an armorer quest. Still not really teasing anything but what people want to see.

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you're reading too much into this. All they said is that they didn't know if musketeer would ever be implemented one day, and how it would possibly work IF they did it with the armory revamp. Nothing about "we'll do it one day".

You are not reading enough into it tho, there's no "if", only "when".

because the question has no "if" ? I don't know the English standards, but when I'm asked "when", I answer "when"..

[Alukah]

you're reading too much into this. All they said is that they didn't know if musketeer would ever be implemented one day, and how it would possibly work IF they did it with the armory revamp. Nothing about "we'll do it one day".

You are not reading enough into it tho, there's no "if", only "when".