Gunblade class, Imperials only?

[EdwinLi]

We probably won't have access to Gunblade job until we can access Garlemald anyways which certainly will be a while since current hints in MSQ is that we get Ala Mhigo in 4.0 along with hinting the next two new Jobs planned may be Samurai and Red Mage during the anniversary event we had this year.

Not to mention the only way into Garlemald is through Ala Mhigo.

[CosmicKirby]

As the player char is exposed to new cultures and combat orders they gain access to new classes.

Probably a nightmare to implement lore wise.

Yeah. It's not like we've killed enough Garleans to fill a necropolis, or completely sacked entire bases of theirs where we could have just had people steal them by the thousands in the chaos.
And of course, we don't have any escaped/former Garleans allied with us who would possibly know anything about how to use them, or knowledge of who might be willing to teach us.

Clearly a nightmare.

We probably won't have access to Gunblade job until we can access Garlemald ..

I see this probably being the case. Even if we have had access to other jobs, NIN, DRG, MNK, SCH before we actually got to go to their countries of origin, I think square would want a huge draw like Gunblades to pull people into the idea of a Garlemald expansion. (In all of their nonsensical glory). Iunno, the Warrior of Light picks up new martial practices like they're the weekly groceries, pretty easily.

[Mycow8me]

I can see it now, the enemy of my enemy of my enemies, enemies, is my enemy! So lets team up imperials! Seriously though, I hope they really do implement a gunblade class finally at some point. The fact that they already exist in the game means there's hope.

[MisterLucie]

What would a gunblade class even do? Squall and Seifer were just typical soldier archetypes with a cool weapon.

[Mycow8me]

What would a gunblade class even do? Squall and Seifer were just typical soldier archetypes with a cool weapon.

I was thinking along the lines of dissidia for abilities and attacks. Squall, Cloud, and Seifer are just refferences. Ultimately they would have to bring some new ideas to the table for implementation. Doesn't change the fact that it could be a neat class though, was never implemented in ffxi either so it would be something different.

[Felis]

gunblade, gunlance, gunaxes, gunbows, gunguns etc. are imperial only weapons.
Or your name is Hildibrand and find the gunlance from Darnus in a pumpkin field.

[Kaiser-Ace]

It would literally be a GLD's auto attack with GLD and MCH's cross skills pluss a few of its own trademarks like maybe en-<element> spells to enhance the blade (not unlike Squall's Overdrive).

But all in all, unless it was the combo class idea Moonleg suggested, there's not much A Gunblader could do that would be diffrent from MCH and GLD and likly wouldn't be as good at melee or ranged combat as either of them.

[Khalithar]

There is an equippable gunblade in the game already. It's called Blue Steel and drops in Stone Vigil normal.

[CosmicKirby]

There is an equippable gunblade in the game already. It's called Blue Steel and drops in Stone Vigil normal.

This shares a model with the PVP weapon Warwolf Knifelock. It's just colored Red.