The Mystery Gun Job

[Marionette]

Personally I think the way it's going to go is. Main class being thief (or other equivilent name) With two split jobs, one being ninja with typical dual weilding ability, and a corsair like job which dual weilds with the offhand weapon as a pistol instead of a dagger (Think first boss of pharos)

[Zophar]

Personally I think the way it's going to go is. Main class being thief (or other equivilent name) With two split jobs, one being ninja with typical dual weilding ability, and a corsair like job which dual weilds with the offhand weapon as a pistol instead of a dagger (Think first boss of pharos)

No, it's already been confirmed that there are going to be 2 separate classes, not just jobs. Also, I'd bet that There won't actually be a dual wield trait. I much more expect that the thf nin is actually going to have "Dual daggers" as their style of weapon. There are a couple reasons I believe this. The lesser reason is that Dagger already exists as a GLA weapon.

[Zophar]

The main reason though is animations. If they do dual wield like they did in XI, with two separate equipable weapons they would either have to limit all of the AC animations to include ONLY the main hand weapon, in the event that only one weapon is equipped. Alternatively, they would have to come up with 2 animations per ability, something that they wouldn't even do with BLM/WHM with their club/staff, and is not something they're likely to do going forward. Alternatively, they could just set certain moves to only work if a weapon is equipped in the sub slot, as they did with pld and it's shield moves, which is possible, but I think it somewhat unlikely.

As far as Musketeer though, I kinda doubt it would use a gun AND sword/dagger. Not impossible, but I imagine it would be a difficult class to program and balance.

[Jandor]

Personally I think the way it's going to go is. Main class being thief (or other equivilent name) With two split jobs, one being ninja with typical dual weilding ability, and a corsair like job which dual weilds with the offhand weapon as a pistol instead of a dagger (Think first boss of pharos)

Personally I think (hope) it's going to be 'Scout' class with 'Thief' (DPS/support) and 'Ninja' (pure DPS) jobs.

No, it's already been confirmed that there are going to be 2 separate classes, not just jobs. Also, I'd bet that There won't actually be a dual wield trait. I much more expect that the thf nin is actually going to have "Dual daggers" as their style of weapon. There are a couple reasons I believe this. The lesser reason is that Dagger already exists as a GLA weapon.

Do you have a source for the 2 classes thing? I'd be interested in reading it .

[Zophar]

Honestly, after all my effort trying to dig it back up again, I couldn't find the original source. But it was when they announced the new classes, they had said it as if it were two separate classes, and not one. But either way, if you've played through the story, I don't see any reason to doubt that it's 2 classes. Gunner already has an official guild, and has since 1.0. It's up in the Marauder's guild. The dagger class on the other hand has a "secret underground" guild, the location of which is shown to be down by the docks. Moreover, we were treated to a fancy little preview of what the dagger job will supposedly be like in one of the cutscenes. I really can't picture them adding a gun to this job that is already using 2 daggers.

[Jandor]

Honestly, after all my effort trying to dig it back up again, I couldn't find the original source. But it was when they announced the new classes, they had said it as if it were two separate classes, and not one. But either way, if you've played through the story, I don't see any reason to doubt that it's 2 classes. Gunner already has an official guild, and has since 1.0. It's up in the Marauder's guild. The dagger class on the other hand has a "secret underground" guild, the location of which is shown to be down by the docks. Moreover, we were treated to a fancy little preview of what the dagger job will supposedly be like in one of the cutscenes. I really can't picture them adding a gun to this job that is already using 2 daggers.

Oh, my mistake, I've totally misunderstood you. I thought you meant the 2 dagger jobs would branch off of 2 separate dagger classes.