Guess that Machinist Job Story!

[EdwinLi]

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Well like I said it is only one possible outcome I can guess. Garlean Ironworks is one of the few places that can have access to technology a Machinist may have.

Not many places in Eorzea currently has the knowledge to create advance technology themed like the drones the Machinist will be able to summon.

On topic of Drones:

I'm still trying to guess how Drones may work but hopefully the Drones are balanced out on things. I would prefer if Drone's don't have HP and only remain in the field for a certain amount of time due to some boss fights being AoE Happy bosses (not to mention how AoE Happy Endgame raid bosses are) which could easily destroy a lot of Drones if those are given HP. This would certainly cause issues with preventing Machinist from being effective due to drones dying too much.

I also heard the drones may be stationary so placement seems vital for maximum effectiveness for drones.

You missed my point, you can only think of one path, yet ask for others' ideas and later dispute them even though all of the have their support and faults in reasoning for speculation. Guns and flying contraptions are not unique to magitek, far from it actually, which is your sole support for it being a garlean based job and no other foreseeable option. Magitek is more derived from its alternative more effecient power sources than anything else. Are you right? maybe, are there other possibilites the don't use your idea? Most definatly. Posibillity is the beauty of speculation, it allows us to hype each other up with possibilities others may not have considdered. Critiquing that just kills the fun.

Like I said it is only one thing I see as possible outcome. I have considered Ishgard being involved with machinist but that only my second place in possible outcomes due to Ishgard being one of the themes for 3.0.

With little info we know about Machinist's lore in FF14 I just put together the possible places that they may be involved being Ironworks, Ishgard engineer development of a Handcannon, Limsa Lomensa since Blacksmithing does have a lore saying they advanced their skills far enough to develop guns, and something involving Goldsmithing and their advncement with their Automatons.

I placed Ironworks as my highest possible outcome due to how they do produce weapons and armor to help Eorzea as a means to fight against the constant attack they faced at the hands of the Garlean Empire but don't produce the level of weapons and armor that can be abused for tyrannical means. "freedom through technology" is their motto but sometimes freedom can only be gained with possible means to defend themselves.

Though the other scenarios I thought about are currently missing some things such as how does the development of the Drones for Machinists comes into play. However, it is possible all of these are involved since with a possible lvl 1 to 60 storyline we may be going to these places to advance our knowledge of Machinists similar to how other Jobs takes us to different places to gain our new Job powers.

As far as the pet goes even if it is temporarilly or permanently stationary I doubt that will be an issue. Don't see many smn/sch move their pets around mush either in movement intesive fights, and they will probably have enough hp to make up for the "well anything with half a brain would move out the way" factor.

Hopefully but I still remain a bit concerned. Until farther info about the Drones are out I'll take things with a bit of caution. If Drones do have HP I hope they have atleast a repair skill for Machinist since there is a limit to how many hits a pet can take and losing a pet for SMN/SCH has mostly been a big MP drain and Healer or DPS rate drop for them sometimes until they get their Pet back into the fight.