Future job speculation

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Originally Posted by Dualblade

Except for the last one this sounds similar to the Mystic Knight class/job correct? Maybe another name for it?

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Yeah I'm pretty sure Mystic Knight was the FFV version of it. Never played Tactics, sorry ^^"

Moving away from things we'd like to see in FFXIV the question remains - what jobs do you think are most likely to appear in the next major update? Anyone's dad works at Nintendo... uhm... I mean SquareEnix?

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Originally Posted by ZhoRa13

Moving away from things we'd like to see in FFXIV the question remains - what jobs do you think are most likely to appear in the next major update? Anyone's dad works at Nintendo... uhm... I mean SquareEnix?

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There are rumours about red and blue mage from the last anniversary event, where 2 NPC had a little discussion about black and white are in and red and/or blue could be there in a while.^^
Also Samurai will be included maybe. He lost the battle against DRK for HW, to be available as an dps option...

So my suggestions are Suamurai, Red Mage and Blue Mage, cause they are mentioned by the devs ingame and/or in various events.

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Originally Posted by Legion88

There are rumours about red and blue mage from the last anniversary event, where 2 NPC had a little discussion about black and white are in and red and/or blue could be there in a while.^^
Also Samurai will be included maybe. He lost the battle against DRK for HW, to be available as an dps option...

So my suggestions are Suamurai, Red Mage and Blue Mage, cause they are mentioned by the devs ingame and/or in various events.

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Great! All that remains is to wait and see :)

I do not know FF lore that well

But a beast master, maybe a chocobo breeder? Range dos with pets

Or healer built on leeching and dots?

I believe Samurai is the MOST likely to come in, since it almost did this xpac. Red Mage also seems to be favored. Blue Mage, meanwhile, seems to be stuck in "thinking about it but not sure how we want to do it" type of thing.

Personally I'd like to see Beast Master be brought in as a true pet class while SMN continues to move away from it and focus more on the trances. A way to start from scratch essentially.

To me, the best way to think of a future job possibility is to think of the mechanic first then something that fits in FF lore and current ffxiv job mechanics. Like RDM using spike spells that can be implemented since 1.0 had them or samurai having counters. Some here would love a pure support job like traditional brd and dnc but that would require major restructuring as well as how those jobs can solo content like FATEs.

Now dnc from ffxi is a nice idea if they had an ability to jump in and out of melee, beastmaster or puppetmaster are also ideas if you think of a melee pet job. Sadly a lot of other jobs from FF games would lose a lot of what makes them unique if it makes the jump to ffxiv.