Poll: Which of these FF jobs would you like to see next?

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

I had thought about a Doman Fireworks job like Pyrotechnician or something but how would you differentiate it from BRD and MCH?

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I was thinking about Festivalist from FFX-2.

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Originally Posted by Zsolen

I would prefer a handgun, but chemist with any ranged weapon would be great.

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Why a handgun when you can have a bazooka? Seems like a better way to deliver those healy cocktails I'd think.

I want dancer so badly. I also want a new healer. This would make me a very happy person.

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Originally Posted by Dualgunner

Every single melee dps job we have, with the exception of ninja, are known for facing enemies head on. Monks? Traditionally duel one on one and are honorable. Dragoons use spears, which are just as much a defensive as an offensive tool.

We already have three slashing tanks and of them two use swords. At some point dps needed to get a sword, and in lieu of dps getting DRK we got SAM.

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Except that every melee has (/had) at least one positional bonus for hitting an enemy from their flank or from behind, both of which are not honorable at all, especially because it almost always means you have to do so while they're busy fighting someone else.

Tank don't have positionals.

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Originally Posted by CosmicKirby

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on the middle of a war the thing what least care any warrior(not matter if you are a samurai, a paladin or other honour bound battle jobs) is honor, what they care is surviving, you won't see someone on the middle of a battle tell someone who is hitting them from behind what that is something dishonouring

honor is more for things like duels, where you fight in equal terms, and so far.. there haven't been many duels in the game no?

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Originally Posted by Mimilu

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I love a lot of the Tactics classes especially Calculator and Juggler. I have no idea how Calculator would work in this game though used to love it in FFTA. Beastmaster would be my third choice.

I’d vote for Blue Mage.

Time for the Current Results

Total Votes: 997 Votes

1st. Dancer: 277 Votes (28% of the vote)

2nd. Blue Mage: 151 votes (15% of the votes)

3rd. Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer/Spellblade: 90 votes (9% of the votes)

4th. Beastmaster: 85 votes

5th. Time Mage: 57 votes

6th. Necromancer: 54 votes

7th. Chemist: 47 votes

8th. Geomancer: 39 votes

9th. Viking: 30 votes (Came up from 10th)

10th. Chocobo Knight: 28 votes

11th. Puppetmaster: 26 votes (Wend down from 9th)

12th. Morpher: 16 votes

13th. Hunter/Ranger/Sniper: 14 votes

14th-15th. Arithmetician/Calculator and Sage: 13 votes each (Arithmetician and Sage came up from 15th-16th)

16th-17th. Corsair and Mystic/Oracle: 11 votes each (Corsair came up from 17th, Mystic/Oracle went down from 14th)

18th-19th. Green Mage and Psychic: 7 votes each (Green Mage came up from 19th-21st)

20th-21st. Cannoneer and Gunner: 6 votes each (Cannoneer and Gunner went down from 19th-21st)

22nd. Juggler: 5 votes

23rd. Orator/Mediator: 4 votes (Orator/Mediator went down from 22nd-23rd)

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Originally Posted by garret_hawke

My memory can be fussy but it seems to me Ala Mhingo had the blade dancer before the occupation right?

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This was just a general term iirc and had nothing to do with their class. For example you can find Firedancer enemys from the Corpse Brigade and they are thaumaturges iirc.

With it being a new month, these are what I'm going to consider the final results:

Out of a toal of 1,059 Votes

1st. Dancer: 297 votes (28% of the vote)

2nd. Blue Mage: 160 votes (15% of the vote)

3rd. Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer/Spellblade: 96 votes (9% of the vote)

4th. Beastmaster: 90 votes

5th. Time Mage: 64 votes

6th. Necromancer: 57 votes

7th. Chemist: 49 votes

8th. Geomancer: 41 votes

9th. Viking: 30 votes

10th. Chocobo Knight: 29 votes

11th. Puppetmaster: 27 votes

12th. Morpher: 16 votes

13th. Sage: 15 votes (Came up from 14th-15th)

14th. Hunter/Ranger/Sniper: 14 votes

15th. Arithmetician/Calculator: 13 votes (Went down from 14th-15th)

16th-17th. Corsair and Mystic/ Oracle: 12 votes each

18th. Green Mage: 8 votes

19th. Psychic: 7 votes (Went down from 18th-19th)

20st-22nd. Cannoneer, Gunner, and Juggler: 6 votes each (Juggler went up from 22nd)

23rd. Orator/Mediator: 4 votes

Beastmaster for sure. I want a better pet class than Sch and Smn. I'd love to be able to tame any beast i want in the XIV world. I mean.. carbuncle is cute, but i hate playing SMN.

Geomancer for sure. Though, knowing how this game is with the stupid trinity system, it will probably play similarly to RDM. Blue Mage would be interesting too as i can see it as a hot dps job that everyone would go for. How you'd learn certain enemy spells I don't know but it would be fun.

well I feel we need another healer and tank class before even thinking about adding anymore dps.

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Originally Posted by Transient_Shadow

well I feel we need another healer and tank class before even thinking about adding anymore dps.

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With tanks, i feel like... its not that we need more classes, but there's just not many people that WANT to tank. I want to play dark knight SO bad, but i do NOT want to tank. So i'm really sad that it is only available as a tank class.. i don't enjoy tanking or the stress it causes to me, so i just avoid it.

Chemist in my opinion, especially as a non-mage healer, other than that morpher and blue mage. I really like the idea of the arithmetician, though as someone already stated I fear it might not work well in an MMO, and there's already arcanist who's a lot about precision and calculations.

Overall Placement

Blue: Went up
Black: Didn't Change
Red: Went Down

Arithmetician/Calculator: 21st-23rd > 15h-20th > 16th > 15th-16th > 14th-15th > 15th

Beastmaster: 4th-6th > 4th > 4th > 4th > 4th > 4th

Blue Mage: 2nd > 2nd > 2nd > 2nd > 2nd > 2nd

Cannoneer: 12th-18th > 15th-20th > 18th-20th > 19th-21st > 20th-21st > 20th-22nd

Chemist: 4th-6th > 5th > 7th > 7th > 7th > 7th

Chocobo Knight: 12th-18th > 10th-12th > 9th > 10th-11th > 10th > 10th

Corsair: 12th-18th > 15th-20th > 17th > 17th > 16th-17th > 16th-17th

Dancer: 1st > 1st > 1st > 1st > 1st > 1st

Geomancer: 4th-6th > 7th-8th > 8th > 8th > 8th > 8th

Green Mage: 12th-18th > 15th-20th > 18th-20th > 19th-21st > 18th-19th > 18th

Gunner: 19th-20th > 21st > 21st > 19th-21st > 20th-21st > 20th-22nd

Hunter/Ranger/Sniper: 10th-11th > 14th > 13th-14th > 13th > 13th > 14th

Juggler: 19th-20th > 15th-20th > 22nd-23rd > 22nd-23rd > 22nd > 20th-22nd

Morpher: 12th-18th > 9th > 12th > 12th > 12th > 12th

Mystic/ Oracle: 12th-18th > 13th > 13th-14th > 14th > 16th-17th > 16th-17th

Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer/Spellblade: 3rd > 3rd > 3rd > 3rd > 3rd > 3rd

Necromancer: 7th-8th > 7th-8th > 6th > 6th > 6th > 6th

Orator/Mediator: 12th-18th > 15h-20th > 22nd-23rd > 22nd-23rd > 23rd > 23rd

Psychic: 21st-23rd > 22nd-23rd > 18th-20th > 18th > 18th-19th > 19th

Puppetmaster: 9th > 10th-12th > 11th > 9th > 11th > 11th

Sage: 21st-23rd > 22nd-23rd > 15th > 15th-16th > 14th-15th > 13th

Time Mage: 7th-8th > 6th > 5th > 5th > 5th > 5th

Viking: 10th-11th > 10th-12th > 10th > 10th-11th > 9th > 9th

Morpher! We really need a shape-shifting class like a druid. Please :)

Job(s) that never changed place: Beastmaster, Blue Mage, Dancer, and Mystic Knight/ Rune Fencer/Spellblade (all of which are the top 4, might I add)

Job(s) that have only increased since the first results: Necromancer, Time Mage, and Viking (these were all at least in the top 10)

Job(s) that have only decreased since the first results: Cannoneer, Chemist, Geomancer, and Mystic/Oracle

Job(s) that went down the most since the first results: Orator/Mediator (went down 11 spots. Started at 12th-18th, ended at 23rd, the lowest rank)

Job(s) that went up the most since the first results: Sage (went up 8 spots. Started at 21st-23rd, ended at 13th)

Whatever fulfills a Disciple of Magic Tank class. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by MagiusNecros

Whatever fulfills a Disciple of Magic Tank class. Thanks.

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Geomancer or Blue mage really. I can see geomancer summoning trees to block damage or summoning tornadoes to bring mobs together in a pull.

Can't decide between Necromancer or Time Mage. D:

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Originally Posted by SeriousxSarcasm

Can't decide between Necromancer or Time Mage. D:

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everything good about Time Mage has already been rolled into AST.

I've love a Necro but SMN can't even do pets right. Much less have more then one out at a time. And something tells me summoning corpses and blowing them up for the damages isn't going to happen like at all.

And SMN already has the DoT thing going on so it's already a poor man's necro.

I like the propositions here, but i'd add a berserker maybe?
Got a hard time to decide before voting though ~

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Originally Posted by Ghastly

Geomancer or Blue mage really. I can see geomancer summoning trees to block damage or summoning tornadoes to bring mobs together in a pull.

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Green Mage and Morpher fit this bill too.

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Originally Posted by LyraKuroneko

I like the propositions here, but i'd add a berserker maybe?

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Pretty sure that's called warrior.

It's sorta their thing.

Gunblade Specialist, Zenos had one a long time ago and I'm sure it would be a great job!...

Why would Yoshi-P wear a Pupu shirt!?... "ELIXIR PLEASE" it read, I'm sure he's cooking something Final Fantasy VIII related!...

Me personally i would like:

DPS: Mystic Knight/Spellblade
Healer: Chemist
Tank: Dancer (just to piss everyone off) :)

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Originally Posted by Legendlives

Tank: Dancer (just to piss everyone off) :)

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I'd like that too, but I'm pretty sure it'd piss off people regardless of role.

I would vote Blue Mage but it being put into the system of FFXIV would be a lot of work. I voted Beast Master since I would like to see a 2nd pet class in game at least. If I could vote for more Morpher and Juggler would be voted for too. I can also see Morpher and Blue Mage being fused into a new class.

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

everything good about Time Mage has already been rolled into AST.

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Yoshi P said that Time Mage is still possible even with AST being there.

I care only some twentieth as to which class is done as compare to how it's done.

But, it's hard to say in few words what exactly it is that's left the last few jobs added or gameplay-significant job changes made lackluster to me, or what I want from these classes, so... /shrug.

I can give an essay, but no pithy descriptors are coming to me at the moment.

My picks are the following.

- Blue Mage: We have white, black, and red. We just need blue to finish the quartet of colored magic styles. There is actually one more, but green mage is unlikely. I honestly hope it’s a tank, but I won’t hold my breath on it. It would just be cool to have a magic tank user that isn’t just a swordsman using magic. I want an actual tank magician. Then we could have whole parties of colored mages. :p

- Chemist: This one is for lore reasons. Garleans CANNOT use magic, so when they lose all of their conscripts, they’re going to need a way to heal. For story purposes I think this class is extremely important for a Garlean expansion.

- Gunblade: I think it would be called something different, but it would indeed also go well with a Garlean expansion.

- Dancer: I want to see this one, because I know it would make other people extremely happy. It would also be very beautiful to watch, and perhaps open up to a similar performance type system that Bard has, except maybe with some kind of movement system that differs from emotes. They’d also make great bard companions. Another music themed class would be more than welcome for me. I could easily see them tied to Thavnair. The Thavnairian dance is one of the earlier dances, and the clothing we have fits nicely. It wouldn’t he hard to imagine Arabian/Indian styled clothes on one.

- Beastmaster: I would be interested in another pet class. Summoner, and Scholar are cool, but a traditional style class would be great to see.

- Geomancer: I think that the astrologian questline, Bukyo lore, and Doman lore is setting them up. I do think that they could be different from conjurers If SE worked on them more.

- Viking: This one would work great with one of the unreleased islands in XIV. I can’t remember its name, but it’s the furthest one above Eorzea, and it has a Nordic styled ship by it.

What I don’t want to see:

- Runefencer: I used to want it, but it would look similar to Red Mage at this point.

- Psychic: Its just meh for me.

- New classes that aren’t already in the series. I know it sounds bad, but I really want them to get through at least a few more Classic classes before they go down that path.

Solider 1st class would be cool

But then they would have to add shinra corp which would be cool

Would love to play a Sage, as long as it's not gated or requires some dumb rep grind, like they're doing in WoW now.

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Originally Posted by AdventZero

Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer/Spellblade would be my vote.

I've always wanted a melee-mage that's not a "I have magic in one hand, and a sword in the other" like the ones we have now, but instead a "I have a sword held with both hands, and it's on fire. So I'm going to burn you while I cut you" melee-mage.

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Just play DRK and use a glowy weapon.
There you go.. A glowy / fiery / magical 2-handed sword that you hit things with.

I want a Gunblade using job who's Weaponskill and OGCD abilities hit multiple times. The potencies could be lowered to compromise. Could combine abilities from Squall and Cloud to help make the job.

I would like Dancer to use Chakrams for attacks similar to how chakrams worked in Kingdoms of Amalur. It could be a mid range melee class that has dancing buffs similar to how Bard plays. What style of dance you are in could even change the attack animations of your regular melee attacks and maybe even some OGCD abilities.

Considering how hard of a time SE is having balancing the current tanks and healers I don't see them making new tanks and healers. And as unpopular of an opinion as it is I don't want them to.

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Beastmaster with pets of all roles (healer, dps, tank) that uses blunt weapons and synergizes with monk.