Quote Originally Posted by Vanguard319 View Post
I would say a gunblade class would be the following:

weapon: gunblades would have rounded traits in terms of dmg, accuracy, and magic potency, though slightly lower than those of specialized classes, delay would be similar to swords (2.8~3.5 seconds)

Strengths: multi-range damage dealer, able to wear cloth, leather, and light chainmail, well rounded and versatile, with some competency in magic, and quite capable of assuming the role of DD/support

Weaknesses: versatile, but not as powerful as other specialized classes, ranged weapon skills have an mp cost, has the same durability as an arc, can cast magic, but is limited to single-target casting.)

Associated job: Red Mage (before you scream bloody murder, note that both Squall (ffviii) and Lightning (ffxiii) are both adept at using magic as well as melee combat, basically, gunblade classes are red mages who gained a few levels in badass)

on that note, weapon skills:

energy drain: melee ws that does for mp what Bloodbath does for hp

elemental shots: one for each element, uses a bullet + X amount of mp to deal magic dmg + a debuff

Renzokuken and Army of One: Do I even need to explain these? big dmg ws

skills:

the ability to sacrifice all mp as an aoe recharge to all nearby party members (10 minute timer)

this is a front-line hybrid combat class, so no spells or abilities that would make people decide that gunblade users are glorified battery chargers (aka: the most hated aspect of rdm in ffxi)
I agree with a lot of this except the Red Mage job. Personally I think Blue Mage in it's FFXI incarnation would be a closer fit. Due to the similarities between the junction system of ff8 and how traits and spells worked for BLU in ffxi. Plus blue is also a melee + magic class in most Final Fantasies but deal with enemy skills instead of conventional magic. Could be a very cool combo.


On a side note: I'm a huge FF8 fanboy and I admit that if Yoshi were to give us a Gunblade class similar to an FF8 incarnation plus some form of CCG in game, I'd never leave lol.