Pirate-like class/job

[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?

[Mimilu]

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I think they still could make Musketeer work, just make it feel different then MCH.

[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 ^^

[Linadae]

Yeah I'm still waiting for the promised Musketeer... It was foretold in 1.0 that it was coming...two expansions later...nothing. *weeps*

[Canadane]

Yeah I'm still waiting for the promised Musketeer... It was foretold in 1.0 that it was coming...two expansions later...nothing. *weeps*

Don't worry it's on the task list I'm sure. It's right behind Shepherd!

[Mimilu]

Don't worry it's on the task list I'm sure. It's right behind Shepherd!

Shepherd could be interesting if they added jobs like Beastmaster or Morpher. >w>

[Mimilu]

Also, for anyone who is interested, here is a list of proposed classes back in 1.x:

[Kotemon]

What others have said the idea may have been Musketeer (Class) => Machinist (Job) just like Thief (class) => Ninja (job). For all I know it could have been a coin toss between Thief/Ninja and Musketeer/Machinist as the last class job system for ARR 2.X block. With the latter having its class removed and being an advanced job like Dark, and Astro.

Also, for anyone who is interested, here is a list of proposed classes back in 1.x:

I can see why they wanted to mix classes to create advanced job combos but damn that's a lot to level up and arrange from. It almost looks like they wanted to reinvent the job tree from F.F.Tactics or FF2/3. I also see why Sentinel + Gladiator = Paladin and why by the naming of things Sentinel became just Paladin. Fencer looks like it could have been spliced with Mystic to make Sword Mage or other mages to make Red Mage. Flayer + Stavesman = Beastmaster with Shepperd being a job to raise animals like that pet pvp in FFXI's Aldun, or to raise personal Chocobo's. I'm also seeing why it would have been a real pain in the neck to balance and implement too. Although if ideas get simplified and recycled.. Fencer, Flayer, Mystic look like they could be recycled back into the game as a renamed advanced job. Then again I have no idea how whips would work in a FF mmo without looking like it came out of FF8.

[Lego3400]

What others have said the idea may have been Musketeer (Class) => Machinist (Job) just like Thief (class) => Ninja (job). For all I know it could have been a coin toss between Thief/Ninja and Musketeer/Machinist as the last class job system for ARR 2.X block. With the latter having its class removed and being an advanced job like Dark, and Astro.


I can see why they wanted to mix classes to create advanced job combos but damn that's a lot to level up and arrange from. It almost looks like they wanted to reinvent the job tree from F.F.Tactics or FF2/3. I also see why Sentinel + Gladiator = Paladin and why by the naming of things Sentinel became just Paladin. Fencer looks like it could have been spliced with Mystic to make Sword Mage or other mages to make Red Mage. Flayer + Stavesman = Beastmaster with Shepperd being a job to raise animals like that pet pvp in FFXI's Aldun, or to raise personal Chocobo's. I'm also seeing why it would have been a real pain in the neck to balance and implement too. Although if ideas get simplified and recycled.. Fencer, Flayer, Mystic look like they could be recycled back into the game as a renamed advanced job. Then again I have no idea how whips would work in a FF mmo without looking like it came out of FF8.

Sentinel was it's own class back in 1.0 that dealt with shields. Thing is you couldn't have JUST a shield equipped so it was more of a sub-class usable by THM, CNJ, and GLD. When Jobs were introduced during the transition to ARR, Sentinel was retired and most of it's skills were rolled into GLD/PLD and left inaccessible to THM/BLM and CNJ/WHM. Also MCN evolved out of a gun using Healer Chemist class alongside AST rather then Musketeer.