Quote Originally Posted by Uielyave View Post
..Was gunblade actually confirmed? I personally think it's a stupid idea for a class. You have Machinist, you dont need an entire class surrounding a stupid and impractical weapon like "Gunblade". Rdm and Machinist fit in to those roles anyway, RDM beign ranged + melee and Machinist having Guns.
To my knowledge it hasn't yet been 100% confirmed, but just hinted strongly by Thancred wielding a a very large and unique one in the Shadowbringers teaser, and apparently *cough cough* people have datamined references to a gunblade class already existing in the game files (although that should not be taken at face value as plenty of things are added to the game files but dummied out and never actually used - datamining especially being a big no-no as far as the ToS is concerned, so I won't say anything more on that subject).

I agree it's somewhat of a cliched class, and you're right in it being effectively redundant - there are already gunblade-like weapons in the game (Lightning's Blazefire Sabre from FFXIII is a GLA/PLD sword and many of the MCH's 'knifelock' type guns look like gunblades with a long bayonet attached to the barrel), so it's really superflorous anyway. But I guess we'll find out one way or the other in the next couple of months.