Gunblade

[Alaltus]

at least a gun and a sword are both weapons.
for the bow-harp, the bow is a weapon and the harp... well... an instrument.
could also glue a cooking pot to an Axe and provide your party with tasty meals during fight.


doing buffs with a Bard instead of damage-only with an Archer doesn't change the combat style?
lolwut?

the only question would be - if musketeer class would have a gunblade job, what the role for party play would be. probably increased damage by combining range attacks and close combat.

Sure the bard has to stop to cast songs but the style of combat does not change hes still a bow user fighting at range. Your talking about a gun user changing from long range specialist firing guns to close combat fighter swinging a sword. Just because the weapon has gun in its name does not automatically make it work with a class that specialises in guns.

So let me get this right, a gunblade is based on a sword so it HAS to be a GLA/PLD weapon, but a rapier which is also a sword HAS to be a RDM weapon. Yes I know that it is traditionaly a RDM weapon, but there is a huge flaw in your logic here.

A gunblade is a specialist weapon, whilst it is a sword it requires someone who knows how to use it, not just any sword wielder so it could go to another class.

Exactly a gunblade is too different from both Musketeer and Gladiator weapons for either of them to just pick up.