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[EdwinLi]

MNK had chakrams for one raid tier in SB before the devs assigned them to Dancer and DRK had access to a long katana in HW.
It would actually be beneficial to have a backlog of smaller gun models to give to a theoretical Corsair/Merlwyb job during the leveling process, in the same way they repurposed old gear for new jobs. And having two of them is enough of a distinguishing feature not to step on MCH's toes.


That being said I hope whatever new job is added has more of a grounded adventurer feel to match the story reset.
As much as I love Sage, Astrologion and Gunbreaker, I have a hard time imagining them alongside the weapon based starting classes like Gladiator and Lancer.

Not to mention jobs in past FF games do have a tendency to share the same type of weapon in their own way. FF14 developers manage to make this happen while still going around this by specifically categorizing them as different types of the same weapon for the Jobs.


They can easily go around this again with any future jobs. As a example, if they were to introduce Rune Knight they can name their weapon Rune Swords while designing them to a specific style that always have runes on them.

Gunslinger Job can easily fall into Dual Revolvers instead of being just called Revolvers so they go around the naming issue by always mentioning the Dual aspect in the name or name the two revolvers as different names.

It is the same if they wish to add a new job that use Shortsword which they can literally design the weapon and naming based on shortswords.

Swords are of course much easier to handle with this type of thing because there are far more ways to make swords unique from each other by name and design but other weapons can be done the same as well if a "certain point of view" is properly utilized.

Heck if they wanted to they can introduce a Rifle Job for a pure DPS gun focused Sniper Job or a Shortbow job maybe as a Healer job made to represent Rosa from FF4.