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

[Zojha]

Gunblade already same Red Mage.

Sword with ranger.

And the Red Mage has a ranged focus in the gameplay. Means that for a gunblade job, the melee focus is still open.

[Gardes]

I would do it with drk and mcn mechanics hybrid. Reload for 3 or so bullets, and ogcd trigger to spend bullets that activate based on the previous gcd combo finisher used (reverse darkside).

Most classes would weave ogcd in to affect the next gcd, but a gunblade user would reload > do combo gcd1 finisher > use trigger> do combo 2 > trigger again. The combo enders themselves would give the user a buff, that would be expended on trigger ogcd and provide different effects (buff itself would go away if you didnt trigger immediately after the combo finisher).

They could animate the gcds and triggers in a way that it blends with the trigger explosion so it looks like the slash > explosion is one attack and that should emulate the trigger hit confirms in ff8.

[armandojc3]

ill take a magitek class, doesnt have to be a gunblade. It could be a gadget based tank, hell it could be a robot.

[Auteur]

LIGHTNING?!?!?!?

[armandojc3]

LIGHTNING?!?!?!?

nope bro, nope

[Katsuragi_]

Meanwhile, I get to forever despair and dread at the thought that I'll never have that Squall Leonhart outfit.

[Burningskull]

I've always wanted a job that uses a Gunblade as a weapon ever since the FF11 days. IMO, and sorry if someone has posted similar ideas as I didn't read 11+ pages lol, it would play like Squall from Dissidia. The job would be melee focused not melee / ranged. It would have a trait, probably lvl 1 like RDM, that allows all it's Weaponskills to hit twice. Kinda like NIN's duality. However if your sword slash doesn't crit then your gun blast can't crit either. The Weaponskills would need to be low enough potency so that they basically do the same damage as the other jobs of course. I've always thought a defective Garlean could easily be the teacher for our job quests. Spoilers for Omega but...


We see Nero has a special weapon stance when he uses his Gunblade. He even has different attacking animations where he'll slash or shoot the weapon. So maybe in 5.0 we'll finally get a Gunblade job. Or maybe not. We'll probably get a Tank and Healer.

[Odstarva]

I noticed that! And you'll notice forolda also had this stance when she wielded a gunblade.

Guys, I think we may be seeing a gunblade job in the making!

[Zohar_Lahar]

I noticed that! And you'll notice forolda also had this stance when she wielded a gunblade.

Guys, I think we may be seeing a gunblade job in the making!

I noticed Nero had the same stance in the solo instance.

[DarkSlayerGrimm]

The stance the animations,and the attacks (swish swish shoot) that Nero uses are the same animations used by Gaius all the way back in 2.0 (https://youtu.be/lA8hy5WWxvY?t=4m21s)