What Class Archetypes Are We Missing?

Yoshi said at the Picto reveal that Green Mage (which I guess the team didn't even consider adding to the game cause it caught him by surprise) said it'd most likely be a healer.

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Originally Posted by AnotherPerson

It's been confirmed the next limited job will be Beastmaster sometime in next expansion. Since this is a limited job, it will most likely fall into this category.

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You may count it, I would not. That is not figuring it out lol. GW2, WoW, I'm sure others, did. SE can too. Must, must, be main able for me to consider it properly represented. Or in other words limited is limited.

Both Warrior and Berserker are in... Warrior. Inner beast. Except going full Berserk is meant to be avoided.
BRD and DNC both have the support role and buff/debuff.

Face it, most aesthetics have already been done one way or another.

Yeah combining multiple jobs into one, and then homogenizing their mechanics and taking away any chance at variation kind of shot themselves in the foot for the future.

"balance" gets in the way of variety and creativity.

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Originally Posted by Rithy255

This is why I'd want a Soft red mage rework.

Personally I don't think sword strikes should be for burst, but instead should be a slight gain that your able to use outside burst for mobility when near bosses, In general I'd want more sword action on red mage, with burst it should be fully ranged Imo, at least how RDM kinda struggles with the "2minute meta" due to being forced into melee when they don't always want to be.

I don't know how much of a rework they should go for, but currently RDM's design just really doesn't work with bursts, It could if you made the Melee phase much more of a small gain while making it's burst something separate, I doubt they would but honestly I just want RDM to shine more as a unique caster.
I really would love to see RDM, become stronger in the white magic department akasupport elements (without just punishing the job as harshly as they do for said support elements, the current "damage trade" for verraise and magick barrier is way too much).


PLD also needs a rework (it got a half quick rework that just made it slightly more functional, but the job is still a mess in some areas), Shield bash needs to be a actual skill, I wouldn't also mind more shield attacks, Sword play with shield play, Protecting allies/party and some magic should be PLD's identity

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Given that the way FFXIV is designed wouldn't really RDM be a true RDM without being a limited job, I feel like instead of the ver-element spells for ranged casting they should have looked at FFXI and made the EN-element spells of that game into magical elemental sword strikes for it's primary damage output keeping the white/black balance aspect to either power a more powerful combo or some kind of big kaboom magic burst ranged attack.

I would like to see them utilize the older classes to create new jobs.

As in, you start as conjurer (which is roughly druid already in some languages), but that turns into White Mage.

Ok, so can we take the original concept and turn it into a new DPS (water/stone/aero), and tie it loosely into the Conjurer story? Not joined jobs like summoner/scholar, just a new job that uses the aesthetic. Make it a melee staff king-fu style DPS, I don’t care.

A new kind of Gladiator is another I wouldn’t mind seeing, but we have viper that kinda fits that place.


One I really wanted was an acrobatic dual-wielding pistol user. Add in explosives. Think Bayonetta or Linkle.

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Originally Posted by Bonoki

Yoshi said at the Picto reveal that Green Mage (which I guess the team didn't even consider adding to the game cause it caught him by surprise) said it'd most likely be a healer.

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You know what? I'd welcome that. That is fantastic. A healer colored mage to rival White is INGENIOUS. We only have white mage in the healer category. Black Mage, Red Mage, and Blue Mage are all DPS. Something to add contrast to White Mage in the DPS slot would be incredible. (I know Blue can be anything, but it TECHNICALLY is a DPS.)

We don't have a class like Vincent Valentine that let you shape change into demons and make it so can use 2 guns or shotgun. I guess Reaper lets you change into black ghostly form.

I want a Mystic Knight enspelling spellsword tank. And a Geomancer earth/wind/water mage.

I too would love a more conventional spellsword (though I'd prefer if it weren't a Tank), but between PLD and RDM I sincerely doubt there's any chance of that anymore, not unless they changed its weapon type entirely (at which point most of my interest would be gone)...