Gunblade job must be a DPS.

[Rymm]

What is "cool" is entirely subjective. Therefore any serious argument based on the premise "X role gets all the cool jobs" is an exercise in futility.

You could approach it from a numbers angle- "X role gets more jobs that are highly requested" or "X role gets more jobs that are popular in other FF games" but that's about as close as you can get.

[Burningskull]

How would a new tank play any differently than the 3 you currently have tho? DRK is already a mesh between PLD and WAR. All three already feel the same to me. Granted I only play tanks to level them. DPS jobs at least feel "slightly" different. Also with all the trouble they've had balancing 3 tanks and 3 healers do you really think they could balance 4 of each?

That being said... If Gunblade is a tank I'll live. I just would have preferred it to be a DPS since that is what I main. But hey, at least it wont be a limited job...

[shao32]

How would a new tank play any differently than the 3 you currently have tho? DRK is already a mesh between PLD and WAR. All three already feel the same to me. Granted I only play tanks to level them. DPS jobs at least feel "slightly" different. Also with all the trouble they've had balancing 3 tanks and 3 healers do you really think they could balance 4 of each?

That being said... If Gunblade is a tank I'll live. I just would have preferred it to be a DPS since that is what I main. But hey, at least it wont be a limited job...

how would a new dps will play diferently than the 9 we currently have? you know the question works the same for DD, all tanks are pretty diferent each other in terms of gameplay despite they share the same mechanics to operate they role they optimization its pretty diferent from each other so there is no reason to say gunblade will not have a new amazing gameplay for tanks specially since we are stuck with only 3 compared to 9, you know we will love some new fresh blood on our role, tank balance is still a mesh but is not worse that dps balance mesh.

[Dark_Lord_Kuro]

Why not a tanking and a dps crystal like sommoner/scholar

[Vaer]

How would a new tank play any differently than the 3 you currently have tho? DRK is already a mesh between PLD and WAR. All three already feel the same to me. Granted I only play tanks to level them. DPS jobs at least feel "slightly" different. Also with all the trouble they've had balancing 3 tanks and 3 healers do you really think they could balance 4 of each?

That being said... If Gunblade is a tank I'll live. I just would have preferred it to be a DPS since that is what I main. But hey, at least it wont be a limited job...

That's because they're confined in their role. Every job in a role does the same thing, but get there in a different way. PLD/WAR/DRK have playstyle differences even if they're all tanks however slight they may be. Same with all the healers and dps. Strict balancing is actually causing everything to feel similar.

Tanks and healers have been waiting 2-4 years for just one job. Feelsbad. DPS have gotten a job every expansion and sometimes in between them (Ninja), tanks/heals have barely gotten anything while DPS just got 2.

Now, if we still get a tank and healer job and gunblade is dps, go for it. 3 more new jobs seems very unlikely though considering BLU.

[EdwinLi]

It is most likely going to be a Tank Job considering how things are currently.

I honestly love Gunblade mostly because the choice of style for it was usually a Melee Magic Job that implemented Mana through special bullet rounds put into the Gunblade in Fantasy style worlds. Making this a weapon that anyone can pick up no matter if they have Magic talent or not.

That is basically why Squall can perform all his elemental Magic using only his Gunblade and from the Trailer design of Thancred Gunblade (most likely how our player Gunblade Job weapons maybe designed) it seem that maybe how it works for the Gunblade Job use of the Gunblade which will follow more to Squall's Gunblade combat style since there is no Gun barrel to fire bullets but bullet slots still exists to place in Magic elemental rounds to empower the Gunblade to perform elemental attacks.



A bit sad it is most likely going to be a Tank though but guess I will just have to use the current DPS jobs until a actual Melee Magic Sword User DPS Job is released. I will still level Gunblade Job for the Job storyline but won't Main it because my preferred play style is DPS role.

(PS Still waiting for a actual Melee Magic Sword DPS Job. Not that Range Magic Sword DPS Job Red Mage that only use melee for in and out small moments but rather a true Magic Melee Sword DPS Job.)

(PSS Looks like Thancred maybe using the FF14 version of Revolver)

[Derio]

Its going to be a tank. Even though squall in FFBE is a dps, he is the tankiest dps in that game. So it makes sense that Gunblade is a tank.

If gunblade is a dps job then we can expect the other job to also be a dps job which will screw over tank and healer players again.

[Vexander]

Theoretically Gunblade could be a DPS Job, but that means we'd be seeing three Jobs released with an expansion again, and I do believe the Developers stated that was very difficult with Heavensward, especially when they had implemented Ninja just prior to it. Implementing Blue Mage just prior to Shadowbringers would be repeating the issue if we were getting three new jobs.

Right now we really need a new Tank and Healer Job each. Players of both roles were extremely upset with Stormblood only providing two new DPS jobs.

[EdwinLi]

Theoretically Gunblade could be a DPS Job, but that means we'd be seeing three Jobs released with an expansion again, and I do believe the Developers stated that was very difficult with Heavensward, especially when they had implemented Ninja just prior to it. Implementing Blue Mage just prior to Shadowbringers would be repeating the issue if we were getting three new jobs.

Right now we really need a new Tank and Healer Job each. Players of both roles were extremely upset with Stormblood only providing two new DPS jobs.

The issue was mainly because of Ninja during 2.X and the three Jobs in 3.0 release. That is basically 4 new jobs they had to work on which stressed them.

If they stick to releasing new jobs down to 1 on Patch X.X and 2 on X.0 or just 3 on X.0 only then the stress may have been far less since the focus would have been only on 3 Job's development rather than 4 new job development.

Its going to be a tank. Even though squall in FFBE is a dps, he is the tankiest dps in that game. So it makes sense that Gunblade is a tank.

If gunblade is a dps job then we can expect the other job to also be a dps job which will screw over tank and healer players again.

Considering the design looks to be Squall Style Gunblade, I am not surprised if it becomes a DPS Tank like Warrior but with Elemental Bullet Mechanics instead of Rage.

The question remains then, will it rival Warrior as a equal, less, or better in the DPS Tank reputation?

[wereotter]

Why not a tanking and a dps crystal like sommoner/scholar

The devs have stated point blank that was a mistake they won't be repeating, and the further we go from it, the more likely it seems they will be splitting the two apart and abandoning the class/job system entirely.