Gunblade job must be a DPS.

[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?

[Vexander]

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?

Personally I'm of the mind that Gunblade could make for the next Ranged DPS class that isn't a caster. We got Mechanist in Heavensward after all. That said I would be shocked if Gunblade was purely ranged. I imagine it'd be a bit like RDM in having a Ranged/Melee set of skills. Or even attunements/stances/auras/whatever which alter abilities for ranged/melee. Kind of like an AST's Sects, but in this case it locks you into a play-style for a battle. Perhaps ranged is more utility based and melee does more debuffs?

[Fland]

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.

Yoshi P: "It'd be difficult to bring BLU to FFXIV"
also Yoshi P: "But I didn't say that we wouldn't do it!"

So probably,
Yoshi P: "It was hard to made three jobs in an expansion"
also Yoshi P: "But I didn't say that we wouldn't do it again!"