The coral tower is currently dedicated to both the Marauders and the Musketeers. You'll see both signs hanging. You'll see empty desks opposite the Marauder's side (presumably for Musketeers), as well has several people in the basement shooting guns, so it's not completely gone.
As much as I'd like to see Musketeers in at launch, I'm not going to hold my breath for some really well-kept secret Musketeer wildcard release. I fully suspect they'll be added at some point in the future though.
I remember Yoshida talking about wanting a Thief/agility type class in this game, which is really lacks, so I'm pretty certain that will come before musketeer.
I think I really enjoyed Lancer the most of the jobs I tried out. I guess I will ultimately do that and then Dragoon when I am able to.
Right now, I have the original FF14 software for PC, and I believe I can update that automatically to ARR. I preordered the PS3 version of ARR. I'm unsure if I should continue that route or play on my PC till the PS4 version of ARR is released.
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I don't know. I could see Musketeer roll out quickly if the base class is Archer. If they create a whole new base class, then it won't be soon. I'm just hoping that a plethora of jobs are added. Puppetmaster preasu.
They've already shown that they intend to keep the same weapon type for multiple jobs branching from a single class (Grimoire ACN/SMN/SCH) and Musketeer has its own guild (jobs do not).
I don't expect to see Musketeer before we get a class that has a more prominent playstyle niche to fill (thiefy/rogue class, melee/mage hybrid, etc.).
What could possibly branch from a gun using class? Ranger I suppose but that might make more since in ARC+MSK rather than MSK+ARC. What else?
Corsair
Corsair is an obvious, mandatory job for Musketeer (especially given Limsa).
Engineer or Cannoneer would be other options.
Fuck. How could I forget Corsair. -_-
They can also add gambler to musketeer, one of the new moves will be russian roulette. 1/6 chance to instakill the mob or yourself lol.
Gun-based THF? Kind of a stretch, but THF got Culverin in XI, I guess.
Corsair (buff class), and then you have Engineer (debuff class) and such.
I really want to know if there will be a thief guild soonish. I'm going Mi'qote and playing GLD in hopes of a THF showing up, though I may prefer Glad anyway. I was a FFXI thf but a WoW PLD, so it may depend on a number of things to determine what I end up playing as.
As for how I'm going to start phase 4...still working on it. I got in for phase 3 only, and hardly played 1.0 on a buddies account. So everything was all new learning and I work a large part of the weekends. Next beta test I'm going to level CNJ to see the Gridania main storyline, and see if that fits better than simply starting GLD. For me though I'm really into the crafting/gathering, so I'm thinking I'm going to take one job to 15 and then leveling up crafting as much as I can until I get sick of it and start leveling the other jobs. I'll probably level them all to 15-30ish before I finally take GLD to cap, not sure. Mercy Stroke seems like an awesome ability for any class to have access to, and I have most classes at 8-10 atm and I see myself bouncing between using an ability from each melee/ranged class so far based on party make up and what I'm doing (for example: I don't equip cure if I have a CNJ, and with multiple tanks in the group I equip Straight Shot for the +crit buff, while using Foresight and Second Wind a lot of the time as well).
I'm trying to figure out how I want to handle leveling, and I'm thinking of doing quests on fighting jobs and then turning them in on gathering ones, simply because leveling those is fairly tedious and getting to higher levels for better gear and higher HQ rates might be solid for the rest of my crafting. I got a little burnt out of crafting at the end of last beta test, but I think that's mostly because all that grinding is kind of pointless when everything gets deleted in a week or two.
I have a feeling thf and ninja will have its own rogue class based on throwing weapons, like shurikens or throwing knives. There is that npc that uses them also.
If corsair does end up being a job as well as a buffer I hope they give it a mechanic similar to phantom roll in FFXI, it made corsair one of the funnest jobs to play as.