Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
The problem with this is, is that there’s only so many things you can do with a gun. I think archer just having multiple variations on “shoot arrow but slightly different” is what made Yoshi tie bard into it instead of ranger and why we got the heated animations for shooting thrown in..
There isn’t many things you can do with a gun? You say that when Hollywood literally just made gun-fu a thing. Yes the gun fantasy is one of the oldest ones steaming way back to the old day westerns, but it’s alive and well. MCH is poof of that, because they wouldn’t have made a job with a gun any other way. The real problem is they didn’t flush out the original fantasy with creativity when mch was presented. Since then, we had an amazing display of what could and SHOULD have been. Merlwyb’s showcase was everything anyone wanting a gun job could dream of. Unfortunately SE got hung up on the technical side of things (a gun is an machine) and lost sight of what the expectation and fun actually is.

You also mentioned brd. That’s another prime example of exactly what I’m talking about. Archers are one of mmo/rpg/fantasy mainstay archetypes. SE didn’t/doesn’t know how to approach range jobs so they mashed bard with archer. It’s a shame really. When you think of bow wielder, you don’t think of someone breaking out into song…you think of Legolas rapid firing arrows at some big elephant thing. Now if you picked up ff14 with the hopes of recreating Legolas, you gotta forget that fantasy. So yes…SE killed the bow fantasy as well by melding two totally different concepts together. Just like gun welders, when you see an enemy using a bow, they aren’t breaking out into a ballad…they’re firing arrows. Brd should have access to all the instruments in the game (not a hybrid bow/guitar) and do acoustic damage while using performances as buffs. By merging archetypes, something is always going to suffer. Again…you can’t say there isn’t anything to special about bow play when every new skill is spectacle of arrow use.

Sorry…I totally disagree with you here.