Next Weapons

[Enkidoh]

I'd like to see a proper corsair. High tech MCH doesn't fill the same itch as a classic imperial era corsair. Odd when you think about it since the most famous city in the game is full of pirates, and we don't have ANY class that has a pirate aesthetic.

There was meant to be a gun-using pirate class (Musketeer), but for whatever reason SE abandoned working on it in 1.0 and so it was stillborn at 1.0's launch. What little mechanically SE had worked on it they probably just cannibalized for MCH later on anyway so that's probably why we'll never get MSK.

MRDs are also meant to be pirates with great axes, but that's for a bizarre meta reason - originally the lore for MRD is that they were planned to be executioners (hence the great axe), but SE quickly decided the idea wouldn't fit as a player class, and so redesigned them as pirates who are bit more bloodthirsty than usual (while still retaining the great axe). The executioner origin is still hinted with the name of one of Limsa's most notorious pirate gangs as "The Bloody Executioners".

Lore wise however MRDs use great axes because apparently most Eorzean pirates "prefer the visceral feel of the blade of a great axe slicing through the flesh of their enemies" than simply shooting them with a gun - combat pragmatists they are not.

So alas I doubt very much we'll ever see FFXI's COR class here.