We NEED a "Gunblade" job, a sword-wielding DPS job is long over-do...

[Ashyl_Frost]

Please don't misquote me. Anyways the skills you're mentioning from FF8/DMC are both single player games. I don't see how well their concept would be when going from a single player game, to an MMO RPG like this.


And while the 'stance' idea is interesting to think of for ranged/up close attacks, there's still the fact that they'd be good at both styles of fighting and are much better at being able to change with the flow a bit too easily with the battle, while other classes are forced to work around what's happening.

That's why Square Enix could work their way around by making the gunblade balanced within a game like this. I know they could figure out the best concept for the gunblade's skill-set and how they work when in battle to make sure its not under or over-powering for certain or all jobs.

[roninoftagrm]

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using single player styles is not hard, changing it to CD/GCD based is the trickier part, the rev mechanic is as easy as using a rev button that builds charges, a release on a higher CD of 20-60 seconds, a chaser/gap closer with no cooldown(on gcd) but low damage, youd also likely only get the 15 and 30 as "shots"(on mid-high cd) while the rest is melee, the toggle/stance would likely be proc effects like bullets that proc dots or debuffs, or be as average as the rogues 2 poisons, with straight damage buffs across both with little to no incentive to use another(gain health on kill<_<)

and i didnt misquote, i was adding onto your earlier post

[Firepower]

I actually thought the Machinist (when it was known as Musketeer) was going to be a gun blade tank job for the expansion as they needed a tank, Yoshi said musketeer would be "something unexpected" and Gaius looks like a nice tanky style person with his big armor and gunblade. Personally i'm much happier with DRK being the tank and Machinist being the gun job. I definitely wouldn't expect to see a gunblade job coming anytime soon since the Expansion jobs have been announced (unless there's more)

[Ashyl_Frost]

I actually thought the Machinist (when it was known as Musketeer) was going to be a gun blade tank job for the expansion as they needed a tank, Yoshi said musketeer would be "something unexpected" and Gaius looks like a nice tanky style person with his big armor and gunblade. Personally i'm much happier with DRK being the tank and Machinist being the gun job. I definitely wouldn't expect to see a gunblade job coming anytime soon since the Expansion jobs have been announced (unless there's more)

Possibly, but more than anything it'll be in some future patch sometime after Heavensward releases lol. Lets just hope it does come true since FF11 wasn't able to deliver, so maybe FF14 will this time around.

[Kuwagami]

gunblade probably won't come until we go into the Empire's territory, in a future expansion.

[Ashyl_Frost]

gunblade probably won't come until we go into the Empire's territory, in a future expansion.

NO! Don't ever say such horrible things! lol =P... As long as it happens i really don't care when it comes out.

[roninoftagrm]

latale and dragons prophet have gunbladers.. or so google says, but i dont think they have ff combat styles

update:they use the multi tool philosophy of long range shots and melee swings, not the hybrid style of ff8

[Enkidoh]

That's because the Garlean gunblade is misleading - it's just a pistol with a long blade attached to the side, making any class who uses them just a glorified Musketeer wielding a gun with a greatly elongated bayonet. For that matter, even amongst the Garleans it seems to be a very rare weapon anyway, only seemingly issued to high ranking Legati like Gaius and his Tribuni (who often use their own variation of a gun with a different type of melee weapon), or elite troops like Centurions. Regular rank-and-file grunts however, use standard weapons - even their fists and bows!

In fact, you could probably count on one hand the amount of gunblade users you actually encounter in FFXIV - most Garleans just have mundane classes. So I doubt very much you'll ever see a specific player gunblade class in FFXIV (the kicker for that is Lightning's gunblade the Blazefire Saber is a regular sword for GLA and PLD in ARR).

[Kuwagami]

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dat gunhammer though D:



Don't break the fantasy man (even though you're right)

[Ashyl_Frost]

latale and dragons prophet have gunbladers.. or so google says, but i dont think they have ff combat styles

update:they use the multi tool philosophy of long range shots and melee swings, not the hybrid style of ff8

Its Final Fantasy, anything is possible lol.