7.0 Poster Class

I'm certain the 7.0 poster job will be Reaper. The reason? Marketing. That's what I would also choose if I was in SE's position.

If ever they pick a caster job, it'll be RDM because its melee combo would make the WoL seem more badass in trailers than a caster who hangs in the back.

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Originally Posted by RyuDragnier

Whatever it is, I'm hoping for a scouting job that is a reverse red mage. It does melee attacks to build up a gauge so it can do powerful casting abilities as its burst.

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In my opinion, that's what a red mage should have been, not the job we have now.

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Originally Posted by Kacho_Nacho

In my opinion, that's what a red mage should have been, not the job we have now.

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RDM IMO should have at least been something like a hybrid DPS that had physical damage skills using it's melee weapon along with magic damage in the form of spells. However I suppose the issue with that kind of design is how simplified the game is in regards to normal JRPG mechanics. Past iterations of RDM were normally a sort of jack of all trades job that could melee, nuke, heal, and support via buffs or debuffs. However in those past games they were usually outperformed in each individual aspect by jobs that specialized in that aspect trading tailored specializations other jobs possessed for overall flexibility. FFXIV's current design pretty much eliminates any use for job flexibility resulting in the RDM we have now that while isn't necessarily bad, it feels like a shell of it's past selves.

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Originally Posted by True-to-Caesar

They’ve always been secondary characters and never really a hero’s mark in most medias.

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Rehealer…..

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

CNJ and WHM share/shared some elements, mostly from the nature aspect, like stone/wind themed spells, Stoneskin and Stone for example, the first of which was removed but is still used by random NPCs. Archer and BRD shares traits with, well, BRD and Ranger. Warrior has Viking-like traits and abilities, all while wielding a giant axe. I could go on, but I think my point has been made. They've combined a lot of past FF jobs into the ones we have now in FF XIV as hybrids of sorts. I'm not opposed to them branching out though. I'm just calling it as I see it.

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It’s been.. two expansions now where we haven’t gotten any stone/aero updated spells or animations. Would feel a bit weird for them to go back on Dia/Glare now.

Hopefully white mage having used the spells in the past doesn’t lock the game/player base out of three whole elements for the game’s lifespan. Thematically isn’t this how we got calamities to begin with? Haha

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Originally Posted by BasicBlake

It’s been.. two expansions now where we haven’t gotten any stone/aero updated spells or animations. Would feel a bit weird for them to go back on Dia/Glare now.

Hopefully white mage having used the spells in the past doesn’t lock the game/player base out of three whole elements for the game’s lifespan. Thematically isn’t this how we got calamities to begin with? Haha

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I thought the most recent one happened cause some old guy named Jackie Chun blew up the red moon to get a kid to change back from being a giant monkey and ended up releasing an elder primal dragon which decided to start nuking the world.

gunbreaker, ninja, or reaper. for marketing purposes you need some cool looking gigachad with a big weapon, or some cool melee weapon in general. at the very most they might do red mage since it heavily features swordplay, but, i doubt very much we'll be seeing a caster/ranged on the cover.

i only now read petite's post and it's great to see people who feel the same

I know it wont happen but Machinist lol jk. I would just like to see another npc or "scion" be one or bring back Hilda

Probably going to be Reaper. Healer would be nice. If we happened to go the New World, Blue Mage would be funny af.

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Originally Posted by TaleraRistain

Probably going to be Reaper. Healer would be nice. If we happened to go the New World, Blue Mage would be funny af.

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Sadly, healers don't really sell expansions. SE knows this. They want something that looks cool and somewhat edgy as the poster job, I'm sure.