I can't be the only one excited for machinist?!

[pandabearcat]

The gadgets pretty much were used for one thing: beating on things or shooting them.

I'm not actually trying to rain on your parade, but I hope people realize machinist itself is literally Edgar, and he was very very un-gun focused.

Nor was he even "craft stuff for yourself" focused.

He just kinda threw contraptions at people. They did many many different things. Really no other character is similar at all.

[Edellis]

I'm not actually trying to rain on your parade, but I hope people realize machinist itself is literally Edgar, and he was very very un-gun focused.

First thing that came to mind was actually Mustadio. He had a gun, he had alot of support stuff. And I may be wrong about this, but i do believe his class was actually Machnist.

Or maybe it was Chemist. I dunno.

[BarretWallace]

I'm not actually trying to rain on your parade, but I hope people realize machinist itself is literally Edgar, and he was very very un-gun focused.

That's a dumb point. Because the Machinist in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is, you know, very very gun focused.

I get that you don't agree with, or probably just flat out don't like, a character named Barret Wallace being a Machinist, albeit in a game where Machinists use guns and turrets (which are also, you know, guns) to damage and debuff mobs. I totally get it.

I get that you're a Machinist purist, or whatever, and you feel like the name Edgar or Vincent or Mustadio or whoever would tickle your fit better. I do.

And in the context of this thread, as it relates to this specific version of Final Fantasy?

It means absolutely nothing.

I'll see all you Balmungers in Heavensward with my new shiny gun(arm-ament).

Cheers.

[Allyrion]

That's a dumb point. Because the Machinist in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward is, you know, very very gun focused.

I get that you don't agree with, or probably just flat out don't like, a character named Barret Wallace being a Machinist, albeit in a game where Machinists use guns and turrets (which are also, you know, guns) to damage and debuff mobs. I totally get it.

I get that you're a Machinist purist, or whatever, and you feel like the name Edgar or Vincent or Mustadio or whoever would tickle your fit better. I do.

And in the context of this thread, as it relates to this specific version of Final Fantasy?

It means absolutely nothing.

I'll see all you Balmungers in Heavensward with my new shiny gun(arm-ament).

Cheers.

Well, it started by saying that Vincent was more like the FFXIV MCH than Barret might be.
Zohar said Barret was more of a Machinist and then said he wasn't talking about the FFXIV version but a pure one.

That's when panda said that if we're going to talk about pure, then it's about Edgar who wasn't gun focused at all.
So the context of the thread changed when Zophar, who was agreeing with you, talked about Barret being closer to MCH beyond FFXIV.

Vincent is not really a MCH at all, but he's a bit more similar to this version.
A bit close conceptually if you take Dirge of Cerberus into account.

Barret does have some similarlties as well though.