Class Idea: Machinist

[faris]

Yaris, where is your animated gif from? Have been watching it for day's.

here. I need to pull my finger out of my ass and take screens of Sendai Kamotsu's Zekkomon PV for added lulz.

[Laurel_McFang]

Thank you faris-chan(!?!)

[Zaireeka2025]

Talk about the ultimate inspiration for a class/job, Edgar is it.



The Engineer would be a DoH class able to create hi-tech weapons, traps, bombs, and other items all players/classes could utilize in battle. They can also repair all types of gear no matter the type. Also able to repair/customize any upcoming high tech devices coming to Eorzea (Magitek). This class would advance into...

The Machinist would be a unique job that mixes DoH and DoW (craft and battle), where they would be able to make their own unique weapons (aside from traps, bombs, etc) out of common and rare drops from enemies/bosses. Like Red Mage without magic, he/she would be a jack-of-all-trades but with unique AOE support abilities mixed into battle. He/she would also be able to repair everything in the game. He/she could customize his own Magitek armor into something only Machinists could make.

A perfect job for crafting enthusiasts that also want a taste of the action using their forte. Here are a few of his/her tools...

Auto Crossbow - First weapon/Regular attack/Hits multiple enemies

Noiseblaster - Confuse all enemies

- Poison all enemies

Drill - Major damage to one enemy

Flash - Blind all enemies

Chainsaw - High chance of critical damage/Low chance of instant death in regular enemies

Debilitator - Create a weakness in a single enemy; if used on the same enemy several times it will create more than one weakness (e.g. it will be weak against wind, lightning, ice, etc)


...and finally...

Air Anchor - Leaving for FFVI veterans to debate; have fun!

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Imagine all the unique tools/weapons FFXIV could create for the Engineer/Machinist. I would love for YoshiP to consider such a wonderful throwback to FFVI to coincide with some of the other influences the game has given FFXIV; i.e. Magitek armor.

[Zaireeka2025]

Bumping. Wrote this at 2am when nobody was awake.



I love the steampunk-style chainsaw in this artist's rendition (artist unknown).