I wish Gunbreaker would be a DPS class.

[Dralonis]

this makes me wonder though, What could be the next dps class anyways? Are melee dps really only going to be wanting Puppetmaster and beastmaster? I honestly find both of those boring. I've never been fond of pet classes, especially as a melee dps.

What else are people wanting as a DPS that isn't one of those 2? Since my hope for Mystic knight/spellblade as a dps is nothing but a pipe dream since it was a dps in TTa2 as spellblade but was a semi tank in FF5 (they were a better damage dealer with spells but mediocre in tanks besids some fights) which they take a lot of their class design from , and a tank in XI and IX (they were more agility/int tho which would be weird in this game but interesting a new. depends on if gunbreaker is agility tank).

Then I feel they will make a hammer class viking for a tank. I was personally on the boat of holding off on gunblade to make it melee dps so I could have a hammer tank, but once the leaks happened, the dreams were crushed.

[Bright-Flower]

this makes me wonder though, What could be the next dps class anyways? Are melee dps really only going to be wanting Puppetmaster and beastmaster? I honestly find both of those boring. I've never been fond of pet classes, especially as a melee dps.

What else are people wanting as a DPS that isn't one of those 2? Since my hope for Mystic knight/spellblade as a dps is nothing but a pipe dream since it was a dps in TTa2 as spellblade but was a semi tank in FF5 (they were a better damage dealer with spells but mediocre in tanks besids some fights) which they take a lot of their class design from , and a tank in XI and IX (they were more agility/int tho which would be weird in this game but interesting a new. depends on if gunbreaker is agility tank).

Then I feel they will make a hammer class viking for a tank. I was personally on the boat of holding off on gunblade to make it melee dps so I could have a hammer tank, but once the leaks happened, the dreams were crushed.

I don't have a specific dps job that I want personally but in general I'd like to give them a big 2h weapon. Maybe a big hammer job, so monk isn't the only thing with blunt damage.

I'd personally love a whip blade job too, like Seven in Final Fantasy Type 0 uses, or Ivy from Soul Calibur. But there's not really a job to go along with it and I don't expect it to happen.

[EdwinLi]

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If I remember correctly, didn't they say they are replacing Slash/Blunt/pierce damage debuff into a new debuff that works for all attack types in 5.0?

[Saix027]

I don't have a specific dps job that I want personally but in general I'd like to give them a big 2h weapon. Maybe a big hammer job, so monk isn't the only thing with blunt damage.

I'd personally love a whip blade job too, like Seven in Final Fantasy Type 0 uses, or Ivy from Soul Calibur. But there's not really a job to go along with it and I don't expect it to happen.

Quistis in FF8 had a Whip and was a Blue Mage, sadly Blue Mage got a average scepter, maybe Beastmaster at best could have one.

[Alestorm]

I'm just glad we're getting a new tank (and most likely healer). If no new classes for these roles are added the pool of people willing to play these classes is unlikely to grow and might even shrink due to stagnation. When they added DRK and AST people tried tanking and healing, even though both where grossly under powered at launch.

[Derio]

If I remember correctly, didn't they say they are replacing Slash/Blunt/pierce damage debuff into a new debuff that works for all attack types in 5.0?

I remember them saying this as well to further balance the game, this was mentioned when they brought up the mp/tp changes.

[Bright-Flower]

Are they? It would make sense I guess to rework how weapon type debuffs work. I think it would make sense if things were a bit more varied but we have sooooo much slashing damage, three jobs for piercing, and ONE for blunt so it's kinda silly as is.

As for beastmaster, I could see them using whips, I'd be pretty surprised to see them get a whip blade though. I don't want a regular whip, I want a whip blade like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6_FSpDFuOE

I'm just glad we're getting a new tank (and most likely healer). If no new classes for these roles are added the pool of people willing to play these classes is unlikely to grow and might even shrink due to stagnation. When they added DRK and AST people tried tanking and healing, even though both where grossly under powered at launch.

Even if the new jobs don't overall impact the ration of tanks/healers/dps much or at all, in the end, tank and healers still deserve to get new toys to play with too even if dps are the majority.

[Dralonis]

Quistis in FF8 had a Whip and was a Blue Mage, sadly Blue Mage got a average scepter, maybe Beastmaster at best could have one.

who knows? Especially since they added that whip animation to seiryu greatsword. We could see that whip animation in a way for beastmaster.

[EdwinLi]

Are they? It would make sense I guess to rework how weapon type debuffs work. I think it would make sense if things were a bit more varied but we have sooooo much slashing damage, three jobs for piercing, and ONE for blunt so it's kinda silly as is.

Well considering hope picky people are with "slash" damage due to all Tanks being slash damage, I am only surpised they bother to do this now instead of much earlier maybe in 3.0 or 4.0.

As for new Tank job, I would like to see a Lance/Shield Tank one day for this game. I won't be maining it for endgame content since my play style has been the DPS fast attacking sword assassin play style more over everything else and SAM already been designed the way I like to play as a DPS (unless they make a Modern Assassin Job that use Sword/Gun as their weapon) but it is a Tank design I am interested in to see.

[whiskeybravo]

I remember them saying this as well to further balance the game, this was mentioned when they brought up the mp/tp changes.

IIRC they only specifically mentioned piercing

But they also thought it was important enough to tell us that Gunbreaker will deal slashing damage... So....