ITT: We Discuss New Classes and Jobs

[GilbertLapine]

But Musketeer would branch from Archer ofcourse

Yeah, this makes no sense whatsoever. Not only do the archers' guild and potential musketeers' guild not have anything in common that would lead to a natural lore transition, firing a musket is very little like shooting a bow. Someone who's mastered the skill for one is likely to do well at the other (i.e. they're both definitely dexterity-type jobs), but aside from a basic level of hand-eye coordination the disciplines of gunnery and archery are quite different in their mechanics.

Luckily, unless I'm mistaken the "mentioned many many times" reference is to player speculation, and not any official statement. It would be rather disappointing if SE decided to needlessly lump together dissimilar jobs because they both happen to be non-caster ranged dps. If that were the plan, it would have made much more sense for all job types to share a base class (i.e. replacing ARC, CNJ, and THM with a generic "mage" that would branch into a job, MRD and GLD with a generic "fighter," etc.).