How do gunblades work?

[Edax]

Gunblades are the FF take on this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Vibroweapon

Although in-game it looks like you're just slashing with explosions.

[Seraph522]

Although in-game it looks like you're just slashing with explosions.

That's fairly true to the original FF8 gunblade animations; when you had Squall (or Seifer, for the short time he's in your party) use Attack, pressing R1 at the right time during the animation would add an explosive effect to the attack and trigger a vibration in the controller. Same thing occurred during Squall's Limit Break, Renzokuken, except that there you had a bar onscreen to more clearly show the timings. Since not everyone uses a controller for FFXIV, adding the vibration effect might not be as easy for this, though it would be pretty cool if a vibration was triggered every time you used Continuation (Disclaimer: I play with KB+M, so I have no idea if vibration effects occur for controller players, so take that with a grain of salt).

[Jandor]

Although in-game it looks like you're just slashing with explosions.

That's better anyway IMHO. The whole magic vibrations for damage and using recoil to increase speed always sounded a little bit silly to me anyway.

It's a sword that explodes, do we need anymore than that? I feel a magic exploding fire sword explains itself.