Weapon of choice for future DPS?

[EdwinLi]

There are dozens of bladed weapons, but a hand gun is a hand gun.

I can imagine a "gun" being incorporated in other weapons, the obvious option being a gunblade, even though mch already has a gun that for appearance has a blade on it.
But not just more handguns, and certainly not as another ranged physical DPS.

Isn't that basically saying a Sword is a Sword but we can let it pass because there are different type of swords?

Guns are guns as well and there are many type of designs just like swords.

I don't really consider MCH weapon of choice to be a Handgun. More like a Rifle if we want to be more correct and the skills show this more with the use of Slug rounds.

The size of the weapon has rarely been designed to be a handgun by appearance but more to a rifle by design even with the MCH running animation where they hold the weapon as a Rifle when running.

Also, by design the dual pistol are most likely going to a much smaller size and designed to be look actually like light weight pistols/revolvers so they can develop the Dual Pistol Job to focus on more quick shot attacks and using both pistols at once compared to MCH which focus on Slug Shots and heavy hits using heavy rounds.

But not just more handguns, and certainly not as another ranged physical DPS.

um.....Do you have something against Range Physical DPS? We only have 2 Range Physical DPS in this game so what is the issue?

Range Physical DPS is quite a bit limited role by weapon choice since, while magic range dps jobs is more flexable because "Magic", there is not much options for Range Physical DPS other than going into variety of Bows, Gunpowder based weapons (aka Guns), and Crossbows unless they get really "creative" with certain weapons such as throwing daggers.