Gunblade class

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  • Special ability that allows them to assemble/disassemble a gun and a sword into a gunblade
  • Mid range class, abilities are melee abilities in close range and switch to ranged abilities at mid range
  • Rotation is the basically same regardless of range for qol, but animation changes to increase cool factor by 74%
  • Somewhere there’s a finishing combo that’s a powerful melee ability with a knockback and then you seal the deal with a shotgun
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This is Thancred.

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Sounds like something for a Final Fantasy game. They do that counterintuitive and ultimately silly looking stuff a lot I hear.

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ah, a fellow Gunbreaker enjoyer.

A man of culture.

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Oh so it’s literally just an idea lifted straight from FF14? That tracks.

A lot of people seem to have zigged when they should have zagged on their way to cat girls and gunstabbers today.

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Why a gunblade?

Why not a bladegun?

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No other reason than it’s fun. It’s not exclusive to FF14, it’s in Warframe and lots of other games. It even existed IRL in various forms.

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We aren’t thinking enough here. I want a Gunbladetoothpicknailfilephillipshead.

We can call it the Gnomish Army Knife.

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lol Gunblades are literally just blades with revolvers in them that puts explosive punches into your swing. It is pure anime fun. Like The Red Queen in Devil may Cry. Put an engine on your sword that you rev up to get molten blades for added damage and style points.

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Aye, and straight from FF8. Man, FF8 gets slept on a lot.

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We just call those people, Tinkers.

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Outlaw has a gun and a blade. Survival has a a gun and a blade and can do a shot gun knock back. :slight_smile:

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I can’t believe I’m the one that’s saying this but, go play FFXIV. It has The Gunblade class you’re looking for.

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I know what they are but my point is kind of that it has already been done to death and is on tap in a popular MMO already. They don’t all need to serve the same tastes and in fact it’s better when they don’t.

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True enough, black mage is superior to wow’s mage class design for one. FF14 just does some classes better and wow would not be able to make a fun gunblade class at all imho.

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Now this is merely opinion but I do not mind, in fact encourage WoW to take inspiration from other MMOs when needed. Still a carbon copy of something like Gunbreaker is… not needed.

Agreed, there are rare times I wish WoW’s Mage could do dual elements like Black Mage does. Frostfire Hero Spec is kind of… meh in comparison to Black Mage.

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I mean it’s one thing to see that another game is doing a QoL feature and deciding that would improve your game so you work on it. It’s another to just copy/paste class concepts lol. Plus this one is (in my opinion) not an interesting class concept.

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Not in WoW at least. I love it over in FFXIV but again, these are too different beasts. Apples and Oranges if you will. Both fruit, both are good, just different tastes.

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Actually that’s a great idea, tinker class where one spec is gunblade… 2 more awesome specs… 100% would switch

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Isn’t that a class from Lost Ark?