Guess that Gunblade Job function.

[sarehptar]

hmm, I think I sort of totally ignored this part where he trades his awesome hammer for a blade. Maybe because I don't want him to become bland

I mean, there is already a gunblade (Gaius), gunwrists (Livia) with blades on the other hand of the wristbands, gunshields (the other guy whose name I forgot), please at least keep the gunhammer

Well Nero's gunblade was more of a rifleblade, so it was still pretty unique looking (it might share a base model with Gaius' though). I was quite enamored of how he threw it through someone. XD I think it was actually kind of impressive that Square had a character take the practicality route over just reusing the weapon model--lugging a huge hammer all the way up the crystal tower would have been quite odd, so they actually bothered to give him something slightly more useable in that context.

[EdwinLi]

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Ya it was more of a choice between a weapon designed for melee/range and being light to carry around against a Giant hammer made for Melee combat only and heavy to carry.

Being the wanderer he is now, Nero choice for using a Gunblade appears more useful than his Gunhammer for a long run as he travels.