Guess that Gunblade Job function.

[Balipu]

I think a gunblade job would be a DPS as people are pissed that every sword class is a tank so far.
At any rate it would be a very difficult job to create because of its mix of melee and ranged capabilities. For instance, an autoattack that adjusts itself based on the range of the enemy would be a horror to code. Unless the autoattack is a slash AND a shot.

[Imoen]

So if a Gunblade Job is introduced into FF14 how do you think it will function as a Tank or DPS?

Related to the topic I don't think there is much use speculating, with that said, if I had to guess.. dps.

I think a gunblade job...

There is one single sword wielding class. People are pissed about it? (2 if you are thinking to the future and not current state)

The scripting/code for checking distance from the monsters location for melee and ranged auto-attacks are already in the game. (Bard & everything else) I don't think it would be out of the realm of possibility to blend the two relatively easily... distance check branch > run specific animation based on bool result > run same modifiers for damage etc... (or whatever order they have it set up in) My point is the game is already making distance checks all the time. Unless they are using volume detection for it or something /ponders regardless, it is already in place and they have templates now to work off of... anyway I digress, carry on.

[Ramien]

There is one single sword wielding class. People are pissed about it?

Dark Knights will be using swords as well, so that makes a total of two.

[EdwinLi]

There is one single sword wielding class. People are pissed about it?
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It also the fact that Dark Knight, another Sword type Job, is getting slapped into the Tank Role as well.

SAM, also another Sword user Job, was originally considered to become another Tank Job that uses Sword but of course now SE and Yoshi-P was reconsidering it but SAM is only in the consideration zone since they did say SAM as a DPS was only a consideration and not officially confirmed a DPS Job so it may still become another Tank Job depending on their finalization of SAM.

Basically everything Sword user related right now and in 3.0 era, until a new Job is released that break the sword user = tank Job trend they have going, is just being slapped into the Tank Role.

It may be a while before we get a gunblade class, considering it's a melee DPS, and they have already conceived the idea of putting Samurai into the game, which would bring us to a total of 4 melee classes. We have yet to get a third castor dps, which I personally look forward to being made post expansion.

Maybe but they could always add some twist to new Jobs after all.

Yoshi-P did mention back in 2.0, while discussing Ninja and Gun job (before they confirmed it to be Machinist), that he wanted to introduce a Melee Mage Job which would be a type of Caster/Melee Job. That would be a interesting 3rd Caster Job.

Also, with Gunblade's nature as a Melee/Range weapon in FF14 world they could also introduce some interesting twist to it as well.

[Imoen]

It also the fact that Dark Knight, another Sword type Job, is getting slapped into the Tank Role as well.

SAM, also another Sword user Job, was originally considered to become another Tank Job that uses Sword but of course now SE and Yoshi-P was reconsidering it but SAM is only in the consideration zone since they did say SAM as a DPS was only a consideration and not officially confirmed a DPS Job so it may still become another Tank Job depending on their finalization of SAM.

Ah I see, I was unaware of this other information (I was speaking of current state), thanks for bringing it to my attention. Soooo if dark knight used a scyth people would be groovy with it?

[Reinfeld]

I think a gunblade job would be a DPS as people are pissed that every sword class is a tank so far.
At any rate it would be a very difficult job to create because of its mix of melee and ranged capabilities. For instance, an autoattack that adjusts itself based on the range of the enemy would be a horror to code. Unless the autoattack is a slash AND a shot.

If they just did it a'la FF8, I think they would just be melee with slashing attacks and the occasional point-blank shot. Then maybe they would have a single ranged GCD that would allow them to attack while getting into melee distance for their combos.