What job do you think the Gun Class will be? (Gun Mage? Agent?)

[Kairobot]

I, too, think it will be Agent; but a dps class rather healer. Btw, Hildiband is the 'Agent of inquiry"; maybe the next job is like Hildiband's and we get to do his body builder pose as a victory pose.

[Tharian]

Btw, Hildiband is the 'Agent of inquiry"; maybe the next job is like Hildiband's and we get to do his body builder pose as a victory pose.

I wish I could vote down just to show how much I disapprove of this idea.

[Tharian]

I would much rather have the Gun Mage in all it's pride and glory.

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...x2-gunmage.jpg

Seriously, what cool outfits.

Actually the Gunner outfits aren't half bad either

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2...nner_Group.png

But really, I would much rather have the Gun Mage (Blue Mage) than a sub par healer. Plus, the Gun Mage (Blue Mage) has precedence. A Gun Cleric does not have precedence. Closest to a Gun Cleric that we have ever gotten is the Chemist in the Tactics series.

[Bishop81]

I would much rather have the Gun Mage in all it's pride and glory

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But really, I would much rather have the Gun Mage (Blue Mage) than a sub par healer. Plus, the Gun Mage (Blue Mage) has precedence. A Gun Cleric does not have precedence. Closest to a Gun Cleric that we have ever gotten is the Chemist in the Tactics series.

Just curious, what exactly it is you like about the Gun Mage?

The copying of monster spells?
The monster specific damage? (Unlikely in FFXIV given that we don't even have elemental specific damage.)

I suggested the "Gun Cleric" half-jokingly. I thought would be cool to have calculation-based Gun-Kata.

And I wouldn't worry too much about "precedence". FF classes are more or less invented on the fly. Gun Mage is pretty much FFX-2 exclusive.

[Marionette]

I almost have a feeling that the gun won't even be the main weapon of the class and instead it'll be a offhand weapon that's used for abilities like the Paladin's shield. With the mainhand being the now lost single dagger weapons/club. When you take away the centrality of the gun as the core weapon, it opens up a lot more options as to what the job may be

[Tharian]

Just curious, what exactly it is you like about the Gun Mage?

I don't know if you were someone who played Final Fantasy XI's Treasures of Aht Urghan Expansion or not, but in that expansion they introduced the Blue Mage.

What made the Blue Mage special more than anything else wasn't the fact that it could learn the spells and abilities of the monsters (yes there was that)... but rather it's ability to customize the spells, and traits that it had equipped at any given time.

What I mean by this is that at it's max level a Blue Mage could have 20 spells equipped at any given time, with a maximum of 70 Blue Magic Points to allocate those spells with. Basically it was the single most customizable class in that game. Though they had several dozen spells above and beyond what they could actually slot into their active spells.

That is essentially why I want the Blue Mage/Gun Mage. The customization feature that the Blue Mage would offer to the player.

[Bishop81]

I don't know if you were someone who played Final Fantasy XI's Treasures of Aht Urghan Expansion or not, but in that expansion they introduced the Blue Mage.

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That is essentially why I want the Blue Mage/Gun Mage. The customization feature that the Blue Mage would offer to the player.

Not to be a wet blanket, but we can't even cross-class much at the Job level so ... : /

[Tharian]

Not to be a wet blanket, but we can't even cross-class much at the Job level so ... : /

Who said anything about cross-classing?

[Skeith-Adeline]

Perhaps it is a Gunblade class... that'd be very interesting

[Asheilin]

I think its going to be a dps, BECAUSE everyone now expects it to be a healer since it's "not what we're expecting." I would LOVE Gun Mage. Only because every Live Letter I ask about Blue Mage and as Blu is implemented differently in each incarnation, its totally possible!