will we ever get new jobs? Comunity rep response please ;_;

If this ever happens, I have a feeling it'd be something like Onion Knight, so they could do minimum effort and import a lot of traits, spells, equipment, and even job abilities from other jobs.

Besides Onion Knight, what FF jobs are left untapped so far in FFXI?
Mime: just can't see it happening.
Green Mage: they enhance and enfeeble, and all of that is covered already.
Gambler: incorporated into Corsair.
Spellblade/Mystic Knight: incorporated into Red Mage.
Berserker: could maybe make this into something, but it would be difficult to make it very distinct from Warrior.
Geomancer: they can make this into something, but balance would be difficult because its abilities are tied to the area you're in.
Viking: they could make this into something.

Other jobs, like Hunter, Sniper, Assassin, Animist, Gladiator, Cannoneer, aren't very different from what we have already.

There's no point to adding new jobs anyway. Unless they're more broken than WAR SAM MNK are now, they won't be played or used.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

There's no point to adding new jobs anyway. Unless they're more broken than WAR SAM MNK are now, they won't be played or used.

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Time Mage. It's exactly like rdm only it gets slow2 without having to merit it as well as slow3. Also it will get hastega and haste2 whereas rdm will not.

Pretty much what every one else already said, they cant even properly balance (oh god i hate this word now) the jobs we have in game now, take a look at RDM if you want a very good example of this.

there are plenty of other jobs that also need a complete face lift but the Dev team needs a trip to the proctologist before they can actually figure out that we know more about the game then they do.

Morpher, Geomancer, Fencer, Mystic Knight, rune knight, Engineer, Chemist, Time mage, necromancer, are all of the remaining jobs that would be feasible to place into the game. all of which could be easily be made into good jobs... honestly im saddened that more people dont want new jobs... the game shouldnt be "howmany ukonvasara's can i throw at it".....

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Originally Posted by Tsukino_Kaji

Time Mage. It's exactly like rdm only it gets slow2 without having to merit it as well as slow3. Also it will get hastega and haste2 whereas rdm will not.

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your forgetting Demi 1-5 demiga 1-4, stop1-2, stopga1-2, X-zone and about 10 other spells that could be given to this job easily.

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Originally Posted by Tsukino_Kaji

Time Mage. It's exactly like rdm only it gets slow2 without having to merit it as well as slow3. Also it will get hastega and haste2 whereas rdm will not.

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Time mage is totally redundant as time magic is already on other jobs. Just giving the job better versions of the ones that already exist doesn't give it a deep enough ability pool. Time magic is too narrow to be its own job in this game especially when several of its abilities would be overpowered in an MMO environment and others don't have any real way of being implemented at all. What would Quicken do in a non-turn based game? Astra? Too powerful for an MMO. Demi? Quarter? Too powerful. Hastega? We already have it.

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your forgetting Demi 1-5 demiga 1-4, stop1-2

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"Demi" means half. How would half II III and IV work? If it doesn't cut HP by half, then it's not Demi. Stop already exists in the form of terror and it would be overpowered if it lasted any longer than those similar effects already do.

We already have enough problems balancing the 20 jobs that exist already. Adding another redundant and pointless job won't help.

Time Mage would become the "new" RDM... and by "new" RDM, I mean you'd have all these awesome spells that monsters wouled be immune to.

Time Mage really doesn't work too well in an MMO, because of how limited it's options would be. (only ability to cure would be regens; no insta-nukes, everything is DoT; Demi of any kind would be nerfed to the point of uselessness; etc)

Fencer would end up being a light WAR with parry up the ass (see: THF with swords).

Necromancer? Really?

Chemist... this we could do. And it'd definately give alchemy something fun to work with....

Engineer? Meh. Mystic/Rune Knight? No way to make it as powerful as it should be without unbalancing the game up the wazoo.

Honestly... with how many people have a Lv.99 job they don't know how to use, I don't think adding -more- jobs to the pool will make the game any more enjoyable than it already is.... but that's just me.

What would a new job add that the existing 20 jobs haven't already covered?

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

"Demi" means half. How would half II III and IV work? If it doesn't cut HP by half, then it's not Demi. Stop already exists in the form of terror and it would be overpowered if it lasted any longer than those similar effects already do.

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Have you never played a final fnatasy game?