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they said gun job isn't what people expect. that could mean they could be doing the Gun Mage

I think they're trying to warn people that it won't be Corsair from FFXI. Considering the strong pirate links/theme it could work.

They said it's not what we think? So do they think we think it's Musketeer? Do they think it's a Gunblade job? What? That's just a meaningless thing to say. Everyone thinks something else. He should have said it's not the most obvious choice, or flatout "It's not Musketeer". For all he knows we're thinking of something exotic, and he knows that and mentions that it's not what we think and that it's actually Musketeer (which no one now expects anymore).

Maybe we're all thinking about one of those Garlean jobs?

You guys mentioned tank, you have that guy with Gunshields Rhitahtyn Sas Arvina.

I know there's a Gunspear from 1.0's Nael van Darnus (and maybe a little Monster Hunter)

Gunhammer from Nero Tol Scaeva?

Didnt we say we wanted Samurai? Gunkatana like the Garlean Commander Gaius van Baelsar has.

Gunbaghnakhs from Livia?

So many options, so much psychological questions over such a vague comment.

Just allow me to get my mp back immediately after I cast Blizzard III out of Astral III and I'm good.

Won't lie, I miss how AF3 and UI3 used to work but cheating the 2 Fires out of UI3 with only 1 drawback was not fair. However, SE does need to fix the cast bug on Fire 3 out of UI3 when you cast just a BIT too fast and it doesn't catch you casting in UI3. I used to consistently get the cast bar to speed up halfway through when that happened, now it's a full cast the majority of the time.

I believe the style of gun use will be based on Spoilerwhat the Admiral was up to in the lead to the Leviathan fight with her weaponry. If I recall correctly she was dual-wielding pistols. Perhaps what's unexpected about it is not that there are guns involved, but how they get used. It's possible this won't be a straight-up DPS job like you'd expect but something more diverse (certain FF games had very liberal uses for guns, even ones that healed or restored MP for example). Yoshi does want to formalize the "hybrid" class concept (something I see the summoner job being nerfed transformed into, if this retooling of the job is to be believed), and we have a lot of DPS fighting for too few slots as it is without one of those being taken away.

I just hope the hybrid group of jobs are able to do excellent things no one else can. Otherwise, any job that exists solely to perform multiple roles invariably does them worse than the "real thing" (or you wouldn't use the real thing at all). Even now, summoners could technically heal or tank, but they can't nearly as well as real healers or tanks. If healing and tanking are improved at the expense of DPS, they won't be able to do anything particularly well at all and would lose any hope of serious endgame participation. Without a must-have ability to fall back on, I see hybrids being tolerated, but never in demand.

I just hope this turns out okay.

You can do that still. :X

Money is on either having TC and firestarter have stacks, more scaling on spell speed (this fixes a crap ton of problems), or upping the base potency on all our spells.

#1 and #2 fix a lot of things but #1 doesn't fix the whole, "Well, movement fights still ***** me over." unless you get some lucky RNG. Then again, it could boil down to always saving 1 firestarter proc for movement.

Edited, Apr 28th 2014 3:40pm by HitomeOfBismarck

Gun Heals. Think FF6 equipping Strago with a Healing Wand... only with guns!

One new dungeon.

Am I the only one bothered by the rate they are creating new battle content?

Mini-games. Oh boy. A personal house. *sigh*

Probably some posters are going to say how these peripheral features attract players to the game, and how just because I don't care about hem doesn't mean they aren't important.

A more objective observer would realize the majority of players want to fight things and the % of resources being devoted to the content that players want does not match the % of the popular content being created.

Maybe the patch notes are just incomplete and 2.3 will include more than just one dungeon. Not going to hold my breath.

Yep, as Crystal Tower is ****** from the get go due to it being Reverse progression, much like 2.1, it'll be dead content very, very quickly as SE will put a retarded lock out of some kind to keep it from being cleaned out in a week.

One new dungeon won't be progression, it'll essentially be like Amdapor, what did it drop that benefited you any way aside tomes? The hard mode dungeons as well? Woot vanity gear and crafting mats that can push out gear! yay!

Sadly, with the focus on 4 man, we'll never get actual content outside of primals that serves a purpose for so long during the patch.

I think there's a MUCH larger group of people than you think who are very interested in the mini-games, housing stuff, sidequests, etc.

And 2.2 was a "Finally a patch for me!" as I like grinding, RNG and long term goals.

I hope the patches will be patterned "fast, slow, fast, slow" as in contain content that can be completed easily in a short time span and then a patch with longer term goals in mind.

I am really curious what an upcoming update will add for CT. If I have soldiery gear on my 2 favorite jobs and Animus weapon what is there in CT that I want/need other than vanity and perhaps gearing out alt jobs? Then again perhaps CT isn't intended to be for people like me. I will do it just to experience doing.