Gunner

Appearances: FF7, FF8, FFX-2, FFTA
Aliases: None

Gunners equip guns (what else?) and do a great job of combining heavy physical attacks with status effects. Like archers, they typically have great accuracy and marksmanship, and offset their weak defense with their distance attacks.

Similar Job Classes: Archer, Engineer (FFT)


FF7
NAME: Barret Wallace
OVERVIEW: As opposed to Vincent, many of his attacks affect a wide area of enemies. His high strength offset his accuracy and magic abilities.
WEAPONS: Gun Arm
LIMITS:
  • Big Shot - Fire a massive ball of hot energy at one enemy
  • Mindblow - Fire a massive ball of hot energy at one enemy to drain MP
  • Grenade Bomb - Launch a grenade at one enemy
  • Hammerblow - Knock enemy out of battlefield (ineffective against bosses)
  • Satellite Beam - Satellite projects a beam of energy on enemy causing damage
  • Ungarmax - Unleash large amounts of ammo at enemy
  • Catastrophe - Use gun arm to hover over opponents and blast them
  • ATTRIBUTES: High HP, high strength, high physical defense, low MP, low magic, low magic defense, low speed

    FF7
    NAME: Vincent Valentine
    OVERVIEW: As opposed to Barret, Vincent has increased accuracy, much like an Archer. His limits have nothing to do with gunning.
    WEAPONS: Shotgun/Rifle
    LIMITS:
  • Galian Beast - Transform into a purple beast with high HP and do Berserk Dance or Beast Flare
  • Death Gigas - Transform into humanoid freak with double HP & defense and do Gigadunk or Livewire
  • Hellmasker - Transform into a masked chainsaw maniac with high defense and do Splattercombo or Nightmare
  • Chaos - Transform into a winged demon and do Chaos Sabre or Satan Slam
  • ATTRIBUTES: High magic defense, high accuracy, low HP, low physical defense, low speed

    FF8
    NAME: Irvine Kinneas
    OVERVIEW: Only Squall has more accuracy that Irvine. Much like Vincent, he equips a rifle/shotgun, but his limits all involve various types of shots with different recovery speeds.
    WEAPONS: Rifle
    LIMITS:
    Shot:
  • Normal Shot - Normal damage at one enemy
  • Scattered Shot - Normal damage at all enemies
  • Dark Shot - Normal damage at one enemy causing Blind
  • Fire Shot - Normal fire-damage at one enemy
  • Canister Shot - Heavy damage at one enemy
  • Quick Shot - Little damage at one enemy with quick recovery time
  • Armor Shot - Normal damage at one enemy, ignoring any defense
  • Hyper Shot - Massive damage at one enemy
  • ATTRIBUTES: High speed, low magic power, low magic defense

    FF8
    NAME: Laguna Loire
    OVERVIEW: Laguna has the same stats and GFs as the character he is junctioned to.
    WEAPONS: Machine Gun
    LIMITS:
  • Desperado - Toss a grenade on the field, then swing around the battlefield on a rope, peppering the ground with gun fire
  • ATTRIBUTES: Same as junctioned character

    FFX-2
    NAME: Gunner
    OVERVIEW: The Gunner is Yuna's default class. It has a variety of damage-causing abilities.
    WEAPONS: Twin pistols
    ABILITIES/MAGIC:
  • Trigger Happy - Make multiple low-damage hits on target for a brief time
    Gunplay:
  • Potshot - Damage one enemy
  • Cheap Shot - Damage one enemy, ignoring defense
  • Enchanted Ammo - Inflict magic damage on enemy
  • Target MP - Damage target's MP
  • Quarter Pounder - Reduce target's MP by 1/4
  • On The Level - Damage one target according to gunner's EXP level
  • Burst Shot - Critically damage one enemy
  • Tableturner - Inflict damage inversely proportional to enemy's defense
  • Scattershot - Deal damage to all targets
  • Scatterburst - Deal critical damage to all targets
  • SUPPORTED ABILITIES: Darkproof, Sleepproof, Trigger Happy Lv.2 (increase time for Trigger Happy), Trigger Happy Lv.3 (greatly increase time for Trigger Happy)
    ATTRIBUTES: High accuracy, low MP

    FF: Tactics Advance
    NAME: Gunner
    OVERVIEW: This Gunner uses shots with status or elemental attributes.
    WEAPONS: Gun
    ABILITIES/MAGIC:
    Gunmanship:
  • Fireshot - Deals fire damage
  • Boltshot - Deals lightning damage
  • Iceshot - Deals ice damage
  • Confushot - Damages and casts Confuse on target
  • Charmshot - Damages and casts Charm on target
  • Blindshot - Damages and casts Blind on target
  • Silenshot - Damages and casts Silence on target
  • Stopshot - Damages and casts Stop on target
    Reaction Abilities: None
    Support Abilities: Concentrate - Increase hit rate
    Combo: Gun Combo
  • ATTRIBUTES: High evasion, low MP, low magic power

    Traits of Gunner in Other Games

    FF11: Archer can equip a gun and has marksmanship skills, including the ability to link attributes to shots.
    FF11: Corsair equips a gun and has some marksmanship skills, including the ability to link attributes to shots.