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[SargeTheSeagull]

I just want musketeer. It was supposed to be in 1.x but they threw it out with the rest of 1.x. The musketeer guild is in Limsa right now too (shares a building with the marauder’s guild) and there are even people downstairs using guns like the admiral’s. I imagine it would be a melee DPS that uses a cutlass and a pistol. Sort of like red mage but in reverse. Use melee skills to build up to a ranged burst window

[Archwizard]

I just want musketeer. It was supposed to be in 1.x but they threw it out with the rest of 1.x. The musketeer guild is in Limsa right now too (shares a building with the marauder’s guild) and there are even people downstairs using guns like the admiral’s. I imagine it would be a melee DPS that uses a cutlass and a pistol. Sort of like red mage but in reverse. Use melee skills to build up to a ranged burst window

That sounds less "Musketeer" and more straight-up classical pirate. Which makes sense for Limsa, fair 'nuff.

But if you're gonna have a job using a gun anyway, considering how few Ranged Physical DPS we have versus Melee, why not just go the whole 9 yalms and make it a ranged DPS? If the burst window is ranged but most of your skillset is melee anyway, you'd regularly just be firing those pistols point-blank, which is kind of a waste of giving them a ranged weapon or calling them a "Musketeer" in the first place. Not to mention the only times you'd want it to be ranged are if you're saving your burst window to try and time it with mechanics to sub out your Knife Throw/Piercing Talon/Scathe substitute, which could be a nightmare with some fights if it doesn't perfectly line up.
By contrast, Red Mage has range as an advantage outside of its melee combo, giving it flexibility in terms of positioning throughout most of its rotation, and would only want to delay its burst combo if it's unsafe to be in melee for a few GCDs.