Gunblade class

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That junk has no place in Warcraft.

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FF8 has a weird rep…

I don’t get it. It’s been like… Years but it has some fun elements to it like the junction system and the card game(I think there was one)

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Those are called Crossbows.

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GW2 already did the legally distinct gunbreaker thing, too, with one of their warrior elite specs

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I like that answer, its clever

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To be fair, FFXIV doesn’t hold the exclusive rights to explosive swords.
You also have games like Monster Hunter doing this, and even Soul Calibur.

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I’m just not interested in a warrior with a pew in his pommel. Blizz can (and should) do better.

But I’m in the camp that doesn’t want more classes until they figure out the current ones. So a few generations from now.

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Blizzard and FFXIV have both stolen ideas from eachother and made them better.
WoW was made because Everquest bad, so they took the good ideas from that and expanded on them.
Personally I’m in the same camp, until we can balance the already existing ones I don’t want to see more resources go down the drain.
New classes are inherently OP on release anyways, Evokers are still insanely stupid to kill in current patch.

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Moreso than that, wow has had FF references for longer than FFXIV’s been around (Dalaran has had their own Cloud and Aerith since 2 years before FFXIV 1.0 came out)

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I wouldn’t really call pop culture references ideas, but sure.

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A class as OP described would be broken.

Mechanically feels like a ret pally when they had bonus range and never had to be in melee

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Gunblade is lame even in FF14.

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Yeah, be more like a gunlance in monster hunter.

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Blasphemy.

Heresy.

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Ask evokers how much fun it is to play a mid range class.

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Well with WoW we are talking 2-3 main class specs as well as 2 hero talent trees now in order to make a “class.”

I don’t see a “Gunblade” carrying that in this game. Could it fit in as a hero tree? Possibly on rogue?

Outside of that I think it’s kind of asking a rather light concept to carry more weight than it can.

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While the design space is interesting, Wow has so many thematically relevant classes that are untapped that I perfer they approach Tinker, Necromancer then Spellbreaker first.

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Tinker is a must have at this point. We literally have only one class that somewhat uses tech and that is hunters. But I want more tech. I want Tesla guns, robot backpacks, rocket launchers from my shoulders.

Another gun class is needed

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I don’t really like any of this. Mid-range half-melee/half-ranged is already kinda covered by Ret Paladins with the Final Verdict range increase talent.

However.

THAT is a great idea.

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Hush, it’s the one tank in FFXIV that feels like a Dex tank.