What kind of jobs do you want in 7.0?

I can see them going with some kind of DoT focused job, since they have been reducing DoTs on other jobs for quite some time now. They could pool all of those together on one class and come up with some abilities that would work around them like all these jobs used to have and there you have it.

I would like a new job that levels my other jobs, 1 at a time, when I'm offline.
Ultimately the problem will be just leveling up this new job, which will go 50% slower than the others in getting xp.

What I would like to see:
Melee DPS: A Job where you can duel wield swords (The closest we have is Rogue/Ninja, but as much as it's my main, it's just not the same).
Range DPS: A true Ranger job that focuses on AOEs (Give us back Flame Arrow, but also an Ice Arrow that functions similar to Doton).
Magic DPS: Gun Mage with different elemental bullets.
Healer: Chemist. We already have Gun DPS and (technically) Gun Tank. Might as well make the whole set.
Tank: I would say hammer, but many would rather have it be a DPS job, so I'll go with Shields.

Dual shields would be dope

This is entirely just pet-peeve territory, but... why do we have Soul Crystals if base classes are defunct and weapon choice determines the job anyways?

Honestly, I'd love to be able to play a Warrior with a greatsword if I so choose, or for a nimble nodachi and a greatsword clearly twenty times its weight to play a bit differently on a Dark Knight. If we were to add, say, a Ulfhednar (Norse Wolf-warrior, fitting slightly into Viking, Berserker, Wildling, and Druid archetypes) job, I'd love to be able to choose between duel axes or axe-and-shield or shield-and-shortspear. Etc., etc. If we're to have what would otherwise be a redundancy, I'd rather see one small but (among certain jobs) powerful point of customization.

Less of a hot-take, though: I'd really rather we have more Armory Bonus categories, embrace multi-jobbing (with people playing along a span of roles, now with many shades), and thereafter break away from these 'template plus mild variances and a core gimmick' design philosophy for job-building. That's not to say that every job shouldn't be competitive for all content, but it shouldn't necessarily be competitive in the same way, with little to no impact on how your party will play. Interaction is fun, especially as people increasingly get over a need for their rotation to be set in stone with every comp in every encounter or curse the gods at the first sign of variance.

I like the idea of a shapeshifter type of job, but I doubt that will ever happen outside of deep dungeons.

Necromancer, and closer to a DAoC Bonedancer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt939XeWOTI

Name: Sumo
Trinity: Tank
Specialty: Heavy Defense and Counterattack
Origin: Hingashi/Kugane

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Originally Posted by SeverianLyonesse

a melee job and not a caster though, otherwise the whole point of having blunt weapons is lost.

So that sums up my safer job predictions, I think:

* Blitzball (Blitzer)
* Greathammer (Green Mage)
* Spade/Polearm (Yuna/Aerith original job)
* Reflector (Shaman)
* Whip/Flail (Beastmaster/Trainer?)
* and maybe a Club (???)
* Nix on Corsair unless we get a weird Cannoneer job
* Nix on Judge until I figure out wth the naming conventions would be

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Another Addendum: I think our future whip class might in fact be a grappling whip.

I see a lot of loose appropriation of popular anime media in FF's job design. Even excluding anime staples like RPR's scythe and the overall concept of SAM, I see some Dragonball in MNK, some FMA in BLM. And now with Sage we have a Gundam job fantasy.

Between Legend of Zelda and Attack on Titan, I think some sort of clawshot/maneuver gear is a pretty popular niche that FF has not touched on yet. It would also add a bit more interest to an otherwise kind of boring weapon concept. When I look at other options to spice up a whip class like having a counterweight-ball-and-chain or a segmented whip-sword, they might be fine, but they don't hit on popular archetypes from other media. Not to mention I think a clawed-whip seems to lean-into and augment the niche a whip job wants to occupy--facilitating quick character movement and imitating the feral "lashing" movement of whips--rather than overextending and diluting the uniqueness of a whip.

So I'm betting a whip class will not just be a whip but a claw whip.

Much as I'd love a new caster, I imagine they'd probably expand on limited jobs next. Plenty of options.

Beast Master
Puppet Master
Morpher