Geomancer

[KorPoni]

I know Square Enix won't even look at this, but thought I would take a peek at a new job that I'm sure others have taken a stab at: Geomancer.

Geomancer
Armor: More defensive armor. Leather, harness, doublets.
Weapons: Daggers, Swords, Guns.
Traits: (Not gonna attempt levels.)

• Resist petrify.
• Burning Soul (During fire weather, you gain an attack bonus.)
• Changing Winds (During wind weather, you gain an evasion bonus.)
• Clear Waters (During water weather, you gain a magic defense bonus.)
• Dark Intentions (During dark weather, you gain an auto-refresh effect.)
• Icy Touch (During ice weather, you gain a magic attack bonus.)
• Lightning Reflexes (During lightning weather, you gain an accuracy bonus.)
• Shining Aura (During light weather, you gain auto-regen.)
• Stone Guardian (During earth weather, you gain a defense bonus.)

Abilities:
(Redone and finished)Weather Release (Use elemental-based attacks, which can be enhanced if current weather matches ability used.)

• Fire Ball (Does fire elemental damage, which can be enhanced by weather. Ranged ability.)
• Ice Ball (Does ice elemental damage, which can be enhanced by weather. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute.
• Air Ball (Does air elemental damage, which can be enhanced by weather. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute.
• Sand Ball (Does earth elemental damage, which can be enhanced by weather. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute.
• Thunder Ball (Does lightning elemental damage, which can be enhanced by weather. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute.
• Water Ball (Does water elemental damage, which can be enhanced by weather. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute.
• Light Ball (Does light elemental damage, which can be enhanced by weather. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute.
• Dark Ball (Does dark elemental damage, which can be enhanced by weather. Ranged ability.)
• Fire Ball II (Does fire damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing INT Down. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute, 30 seconds.
• Ice Ball II (Does ice damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing AGI Down. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute, 30 seconds.
• Air Ball II (Does wind damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing VIT Down. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute, 30 seconds.
• Sand Ball II (Does earth damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing DEX Down. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute, 30 seconds.
• Thunder Ball II (Does lightning damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing MND Down. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute, 30 seconds.
• Water Ball II (Does water damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing STR Down. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute, 30 seconds.
• Light Ball II (Does light damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing DEF Down. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute, 30 seconds.
• Dark Ball II (Does dark damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing ATK Down. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 1 minute, 30 seconds.
• Fire Ball III (Does fire damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing Burn status. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes.
• Ice Ball III (Does ice damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing Frost status. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes.
• Air Ball III (Does wind damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing Choke status. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes.
• Sand Ball III (Does earth damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing Rasp status. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes.
• Thunder Ball III (Does lightning damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing Shock status. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes.
• Water Ball III (Does water damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing Drown status. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes.
• Light Ball III (Does light damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing Dia status. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes.
• Dark Ball III (Does dark damage which can be enhanced by weather, and has a chance of causing Bio status. Ranged ability.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes.
• Fire Burst (Does fire damage to surrounding enemies which can be enhanced by weather.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
• Ice Burst (Does ice damage to surrounding enemies which can be enhanced by weather.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
• Air Burst (Doe air damage to surrounding enemies which can be enhanced by weather.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
• Sand Burst (Does earth damage to surrounding enemies which can be enhanced by weather.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
• Thunder Burst (Does lightning damage to surrounding enemies which can be enhanced by weather.) Weather Release recast: 2 minutes, 30 seconds.
• Water Burst (Does water damage to surrounding enemies which can be enhanced by weather.) Weather Release reacast: 2 minutes, 30 seconds.

Nature's Gift (Use an ability to enhance yourself and your party, depending on terrain.)

• Dust Armor (Give a stoneskin effect to yourself and surrounding allies. Effect enhanced in dusty or sandy areas.) Nature's Gift recast: 1 minute. Stoneskin normally absorbs 50 damage, but is enhanced to 100 damage in dusty or sandy areas.
• Shadowskin (Gives an aura to yourself and surrounding allies that can cause blindness to anyone that attacks you. Effect enhanced in dark areas.) Nature's Gift recast: 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Duration 1 minute naturally, or 3 minutes in dark areas, primarily underground dungeons.
• Tread Mud (Enhances movement speed for yourself and surrounding party members. Effect enhanced in wet areas.) Nature's Gift recast: 1 minute. Movement speed is enhanced by 5%, or by 15% in wet areas, primarily marshes or areas with alot of water.
• Cermet Spikes (Gives a spikes effect to yourself and surrounding party members that does non-elemental damage to anyone that attacks you. Enhanced by ancient white-stoned areas.) Nature's Gift recast: 2 minutes. Spikes effect lasts 1 minute naturally, or 2 minutes 30 seconds in areas heavily made of cermet, such as Delkfutt's Tower. Damage from spikes is insignificant either way, much like spikes spells casted by RDM or BLM.
• Vine Thrasher (Gives an extra non-elemental damage effect to your attacks and nearby party members. Enhanced by wooded areas.) Nature's Gift recast: 1 minute. Damage from effect is insignificant, but can be enhanced when in an area with alot of trees. This overrides en spells and auspice.

[Kristal]

I know Square Enix won't even look at this, but thought I would take a peek at a new job that I'm sure others have taken a stab at: Geomancer.

Someone from SE will look at it, but I doubt it'll get past the first screening.

It's simply not that good from the start. Scholar covers most of it, with PUP, BLU, COR, SMN, RDM etc taking other aspects. Weather is fickle is most zones, and any effects are expected to be ineffective against any targets native to zones with (consistent) weather.

Simply put, your idea would work even less then Necromancer, and that job idea was useless/less effective only from dawn to dusk.. Geomancer would be useless 99% of the time. There are ways to fix it, but it requires drastic changes such as Necromancer > Puppetmaster and Geomancer > Scholar.

[Gokku]

ScH and or Cor ....next

[KorPoni]

Actually you're right. I was going to put terrain specific abilities in there as well, but it is true. Weather-specific abilities won't do anything because against monsters in that terrain, they are usually resistent to the weather that shows up. Best case scenario is the added elemental status effects. So, best bet is to switch the abilities to where you can choose the element, and it's enhanced by the current weather.

[Kristal]

Actually you're right. I was going to put terrain specific abilities in there as well, but it is true. Weather-specific abilities won't do anything because against monsters in that terrain, they are usually resistent to the weather that shows up. Best case scenario is the added elemental status effects. So, best bet is to switch the abilities to where you can choose the element, and it's enhanced by the current weather.

But then you're trouncing on RDM's ground. They already do that with enspell IIs. Not so much status effects, but elemental resistance down, which in turn can be used to increase landing rate of status effects. And if SE would add something like "Augments Elemental Magic" to RDM, it could add Paralyze to Blizzard I-IV...

[Vortex]

Why not go ahead and ask them to rename the game to Final Fantasy Tactics 2

[Psxpert2011]

Okay, next will be the Mimic job: 2hour ability- Copy Cat.


How about it SE? It's like a Blu but it learns from his/her party members while leveling! ^o^

[Dreamin]

In theory, I'm all for adding new Job. However, given the state of MANY of the existing jobs (i.e. RDM, SMN, BST, BLU, etc) and the mess that is in many events. Do you seriously want SE to divert MORE attention to something else so they won't have to focus on the other issues at hand? [This is a real question btw to the general playerbase]

Personally, I want a new expansion, if part of the expansion comes with a set of new job(s). I guess I can accept and would support that. But if SE is just going to keep tossing minor fixes (or worst, more nerfs), I would much rather they stop those activities and fixes the other issues or better yet, find real solutions for those problems.

[KorPoni]

On the new years announcement, they mentioned redoing the hardware of FFXI to support more content. I really hope they start opening up the world of Vana d'Iel, because at the moment there's only about 40% of the world available to be travelled. Heck, when they opened up the East, they only opened up half of it (Treasures of Aht Urhgan). Then, instead of introducing new areas, they just redid old ones for a different time period (Wings of the Goddess), then the SAME areas AGAIN (Abyssea). It's time they start applying a design team to making new areas, storylines, and such, so we can start seeing new expansions.

However, I have a really good feeling no new jobs will be seen. Though there's styles SE hasn't explored with FFXI, but introducing them is just bringing out more jobs that can do new combinations of the same things. If anyone can make a truly unique new job, I think Geomancer is the route, as the job isn't really a mage or a melee, but they use abilities that are terrain/weather dependent that have a unique combination of effects. Would be like the DD version of DNC, where instead of a list of support abilities, would be a list of damaging abilities.

[Rewyen]

I'm all for the old school master class system instead of new jobs. Do a 99 limit break specific to your job, ala a mega-Maat fight thing, which releases the true potential of the job. For example: Breaking the limit as a 99BLM would then transform you into a 01WZD (Wizard), which carries over all caps and BLM abilities, but unleashes more potentcy, suvivability and new ancient magics and traits. Just an idea. If anything, it would give people something to do >.>