(05-13-2015, 07:49 AM)Leomoon Wrote: The one Gun blade I have seen work is in XIII seeing as Lightnings weapon would fold into a gun and then turn into a blade when needed. As for XIV the Garleans I think uses a version that brings aether into the barrel and shoots out something like to a exploding fireball. We see the impacts in some of the CGI movies but there is not small bullet whole its a ball of energy as well in game it would be very situational it would be something to a mix of PLD's melee combat and BRD's skill set.
I don't see us using the Gun blade at any point in time until maybe LONG time the line and even then the skills used in it would be somewhat odd.
Every in game version of a gunblade (short of Lightning's non-canon one) has a cylinder for chambered ammunition. Since the Garleans can't by biology use Aether it would seem more likely that they would make a gun and then bullets for it. The effect you're speaking of is likely tracer ammunition or the glow is an aftereffect of whatever powder mixture they're using; that or they're also using ceruleum to power their ammo the crazy gits. The sparking effect was the high-velocity round impacting the WoL's armor and likely breaking up into shards, though something obviously got through enough to wound him which is pretty common when shooting at anything through material.Â
I don't forsee any new classes until the next expansion, either, here's hoping for Ala Mhigo once Ishgard is secured =P
