Pirate-like class/job

[Myrhn]

I know that Marauder is kinda like a pirate class. I was thinking more like the NPC Rostnsthal. He wild a small axe on his side with a musket on the other side like the ones we use on the 1.0 LL story. I, and probably a lot more people, were very excited when we saw that we could wild a gun on 1.0 but it never happened. Now we have machinist but i really dont feel like a small hand gun. The class/job could use an axe for close range and the pistol for mid-ling range. I think it would be very nice if we finally could use those LL pistols that we see every so often.

[Krissey]

Why not called it a Corsair or Swashbuckler?

[Torunya]

Although I would absolutely love a duel-wielding Swashbuckler, the game sorely calls for a blunt damage-type job that can synergize with Monk. ...Beastmaster anyone?

[Myrhn]

Why not called it a Corsair or Swashbuckler?

Those are pretty nice names.

[Antonio_Xul]

At the Marauders guild it looks like there was suppose to be another gun class there. If you look at the symbols, that building is shared by 2 guilds. That could mean maybe another gun class could be brought in. Who knows.

[Canadane]

At the Marauders guild it looks like there was suppose to be another gun class there. If you look at the symbols, that building is shared by 2 guilds. That could mean maybe another gun class could be brought in. Who knows.

The tower was originally the Musketeers guild that was never accessible to players other than holding a gun for a quick cutscene.
The Marauders guild was on a pirate ship. But the Pirates got the boot or had to clean up their act if they wanted to stay under Merlwyb's law.
So tl;dr: they accommodated each other and are roomies now.


But basically the idea for a Musketeer class seems to be out with window since the Machinist Job took over that idea without ever needing the base class. A cool idea that was probably half finished just thrown out. Very sad, but that's the way game development works sometimes.

[Tanathya]

[Jonnycbad]

Well, Machinists are more like the typical FF Engineer/Puppetmaster, using tools/machines/technology to deal damage and support the party. MCH uses a rifle or long gun, compared to the gun that Mrlywb uses which are pistols and dual wielded.

[Tint]

this pirate boss in sastasha and sastasha hm has a saber and a pistol. would be awesome to have such a class with main- and offhand weapon ^^

[Enkidoh]

Well, Machinists are more like the typical FF Engineer/Puppetmaster, using tools/machines/technology to deal damage and support the party. MCH uses a rifle or long gun, compared to the gun that Mrlywb uses which are pistols and dual wielded.

Again, Merlwyb is a Musketeer class which was originally planned to have been accessible to players way back in the original version of FFXIV (1.0) but was never implemented (as Canadane already stated) - several other Limsa npcs and enemies also have this class. The Coral Tower which was originally planned to be the Musketeer's Guild still has the class logo that was planned meaning even in ARR's development Musketeer was 'still on the cards' for inclusion... but ultimately was abandoned somewhere along the line, and when MCH was added, it was quietly dropped.

Which is a shame, although I still hold out hope (however misguided) that one day SE will go back and fix this tinkering with the Armoury System, give starting classes to the new 'Extra Jobs' to balance them out with the rest of the Armoury System, and thus introduce Musketeer as MCH's 'base class'.

It almost likely won't happen though, but hey, a girl can still dream right?