Gunner Image Hint at PT Role

[WellFooled]

Lololink and Anatha are both right, you're just coming at it from different angles. Lololink is looking at it from a lore perspective, Anatha is thinking of gameplay.

From a lore perspective, the Admiral is a Musketeer, but from a gameplay perspective she's nothing because she doesn't have a job and skills, traits like players do.

All that said...I don't think any of this has to do with what role the upcoming gun class will be

[Snugglebutt]

Pretty sure gunner will be DPS and an additional job will be revealed as the healer in the expansion between now and it's release. I could be wrong but I don't think I will be as I also think 3.0 will be 1 DPS, 1 healer and 1 tank with the tank confirmed as DRK right now. Will have to wait and see but I was right in my assumption about ninja being DPS and DRK being tank so while gunner type is almost a certainty at this stage I am very confidant it won't be the healing class.

I am also sure in future new jobs will be like doing with DRK in that they will not require entire new classes for it. It will be GLD becomes either PLD or DRK, Archer can become BRD or Gunner, Rogue can become Ninja or Samurai etc and so on in future. I believe that is the direction they are actually going in future from class/job perspective. It will not be a new class for every job, it will be two jobs for every class. Again I could be wrong but I think that is what is going to happen from 3.0 onwards.

[Marael]

Gunner

Musketeer

You assume these two things are one and the same.

They don't have to be.

You're just making connections in your mind that may not actually exist.

[Hagen]

It would be much easier for Musketeer DPS branch into 2 jobs, one healer (using smaller guns like SCH use diferent books), another one DPS. If they give Chemist something like the Mix command that functions like Mudras they can even add more skills then normal, just like Ninjutsu.

Also I don't know why people are using NIN as the other DPS we were promised. Multiples jobs have to be more then 2. Lets not forget the chick with a rapier in the artbook cover.

[Felis]

Why exactly would she be representative of the "gunner" class we're getting in 3.0, when historically there is no precedent to support that assumption?
What citystate leader has a player class/job again? None.

Merlwyb - Musketeer

Weapons: Death Penalty and Annihilator─two muskets rumored to have once been wielded by the infamous pirate king, Mistbeard.

Kan-E-Senna - Conjurer

Weapon: Claustrum─a legendary staff carved from the branch of a tree said to have survived the sixth Umbral Era.

Raubahn - Gladiator

Weapons: Tizona─a cursed blade taken from the hands of a former rival after defeating him on the bloodsands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUN3OIfoL9M

weapon type = class

[Klive]

Musketeer won't be a healer eh?

And archers don't sing either.

[Estellios]

Maybe Merlwyb is just a bad party member. Like BRDs that don't use songs.

[Felis]

Musketeer would be a good ranged tank

[Elim]

If it's not a healer I'll be kind of sad. I LOVED my scoundrel in SW:TOR and gunner/agent reminds me of it. My raid leader already asked if I'd switch to agent if it was heals. :P

[Radacci]

Why exactly would she be representative of the "gunner" class we're getting in 3.0, when historically there is no precedent to support that assumption?
What citystate leader has a player class/job again? None.

We're getting our new DPS in two days. Nowhere has it been said that we'd be getting ANOTHER damage dealer class in 3.0, only one tank and one healer.

ya, SAM has been kinda hinted at, so i suppose SAM-gun-healer!
they said multiple jobs, and just cause they haven't specifically mentioned any DD, doesn't mean there won't be any.
Gunner could be DD, and something else as healer; cause they never said anything about what healer is.
just cause they add Nin, doesn't mean they can't add more DD...especially if DRK is any indication of them moving away from classes/towards advanced jobs, then it would make sense to add a pure job for each role; or even more than 1/role (nerdgasm)

Pretty sure gunner will be DPS and an additional job will be revealed as the healer in the expansion between now and it's release. I could be wrong but I don't think I will be as I also think 3.0 will be 1 DPS, 1 healer and 1 tank with the tank confirmed as DRK right now. Will have to wait and see but I was right in my assumption about ninja being DPS and DRK being tank so while gunner type is almost a certainty at this stage I am very confidant it won't be the healing class.

I am also sure in future new jobs will be like doing with DRK in that they will not require entire new classes for it. It will be GLD becomes either PLD or DRK, Archer can become BRD or Gunner, Rogue can become Ninja or Samurai etc and so on in future. I believe that is the direction they are actually going in future from class/job perspective. It will not be a new class for every job, it will be two jobs for every class. Again I could be wrong but I think that is what is going to happen from 3.0 onwards.

you're missing the point, that DRK is NOT associated with any class...it's a stand-alone job....that uses 2h-sword which has nothing to do with GLD/1h sword+shield.
Also, being a gladiator, has nothing to do with being a dark knight
archer has nothing to do with musketeering.
rogue has nothing to do with samurai.