Would A Rifle Job Ever Be Possible?

[Antonio_Xul]

Ooh! I hope so, so I could pretend to be this guy!

[Dualgunner]

I would love a rifleman type job. It would give them an excuse to shift MCH's current sprint over to it and give them a sprint that works for pistols. Yes I'm that petty :P

Pettiness aside, I'd love for a rifleman type job and a dual gunner type job. I'm not biased. At all. You are.

[Alien_Gamer]

I'm not against the idea but I don't think it'll ever happen. Too many of the MCH skins resemble a rifle and given how focused each class is around the weapon I have trouble seeing how SE could easily distinguish between MCH weapon skins and a Rifleman. But maybe a 2hand rifle designed around sniper rifles instead of long pistols/short barrel rifles?

[Dualgunner]

I'm not against the idea but I don't think it'll ever happen. Too many of the MCH skins resemble a rifle and given how focused each class is around the weapon I have trouble seeing how SE could easily distinguish between MCH weapon skins and a Rifleman. But maybe a 2hand rifle designed around sniper rifles instead of long pistols/short barrel rifles?

It wouldn't be the first time they changed around a bunch of models to suit the new job. Most of NIN's leveling weapons were originally paladin's.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Chemist

/10char

Please no. The healer scene is in shambles, just give us a tank and DPS

[Lambdafish]

Please no. The healer scene is in shambles, just give us a tank and DPS

I'd rather people who don't play DPS get some new job content, because I have also heard "the tank scene is in shambles" from WARs and DRKs, and at that rate we just get two more DPS again.

[Nightroad]

Rifle for stand off damage dealing and fixing bayonet for melee combat . Closing using a charge maybe.
With a defensive stance , changing to a protection/tank class.
Damage dealt increasing if being close to another rifle-person.
Something like that maybe ?
I am aware that they said they will never make a dual/forked class again , but a damage dealer / tank class like the way arcanist went might help with tank shortages ?

[Renato]

I'm hoping that once we finally get to Garlemald or run into a Garlean character that defects (like Nero) that they share their tech and we get some kind of Gun blade class finally that works in the same way as a RDM except its a melee/ranged physical DPS.

If anything SE has been known to hint at new classes with characters. (I.e. Thancred using ninja-like skills and Alise being a RDM before actually being a RDM) I suspect Frodola to be some kind of new class eventually.

[Cherie]

There is a sort of dual wielding rifle job already in the game but only NPCs can use it. During story battles, the Limsa General Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn will use her dual firearm style which I believe her job is Musketeer!



Well I guess she doesn't have a rifle now that I look more closely. But this was to be the quintessential gun job in FFXIV but it got swapped to machinist because I believe they wanted to add the turret concept. If you look back to old 1.0 videos, I've been told there used to be a Musketeer guild in Limsa. There still might be but if it's there, most of the identifying markers have been taken down.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Swapping weapons between classes as someone mentioned has been done before as knives used to be PLD weapons until ROG/NIN was added and they paired them for the new job.

As for what jobs could make use of an actual 2 handed rifle. Ranger from FFXI comes to mind as one of their proficient weapons was a 2 handed rifle while Corsair got the more pistol like hexagun. FFTA2 has Fusilier though the game portrays most gun animations as pistols. It also had a job class of sniper that specialized in greatbows but could probably be adjusted to use a rifle easily for FFXIV. Though I think in terms of firearms from FFTA2 I'd probably be more interested in the 2 jobs using hand cannons Flintlock and Cannoneer.