Predictions for job(s) in the next expansion?

See Chemist is what a lot of people are thinking for the next healer(myself included), but we can't deny that SE has been known to throw some curve balls with jobs in the past, namely GNB(i mean, okay it was totally requested or at least a gunblade user class) point is, they dont necessarily have to make a traditional job, we just sort of expect it. GNB pretty much proved they could take a couple character concepts and make it a working tank job. So i dont know, maybe they'll toss some strange whip user or something. Not really sure what they would present us, but i think the argument for what would the chemist/ or another healer bring to the table that the other 3 do not, i mean GNB there you go. Did it bring anything new in the grand scheme of things? I dont really think so, at least not in the current expansion, besides different gameplay. So i dunno. we can go by whats been sort of teased: Beastmaster,Geomancer, Apothecary(chemist), and know for sure Necromancy is a thing(highly unlikely) in game lore, can't think of anything else that comes to mind about possible teasing/referencing in story/side quests.
as far as what i think classically has potential to fit in this game some sort of way?
Geomancer
Mystic Knight
Oracle/Mystic/GreenMage
Chemist/Salve Maker
Sage
BeastMaster/Tamer
some darkness based healer
Magitek Knight(thought gunbreaker was gonna be titled this before reveal so very unlikely all this would be is a rider class which i do not see happening)

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Originally Posted by Archwizard

Much as I LOVE the idea of Necromancer as a healer and have even backed the idea many times in the past... going off of The Heroes' Gauntlet, the inclusion of a Necromancer would probably be as exactly the kind of Dark Mage proposed, with spells like Absolute Dark and Dark Deluge confirming the use of Ascian-esque magic.
And given how much pushback there is towards Necromancer not being "heroic" enough, I expect that wouldn't go over too well either.

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I believe that's down to their creativity/ability to frame it (much as with Emet-Selch/Elidibus, championing the dark to restore the ancient world), in the end, and that such pushback can be defeated - Necromancer is a popular RPG class and I've seen it do pretty well over numerous polls conducted over the years. Darkness is not 'evil', per se, and counts in its repertoire some very potent spells. Most of the doubt towards it that I've seen is in terms of the developers knowing how to make it fit, not so much against the concept itself.

If not a Necromancer, then a darkness based caster of some other flavour would make sense. There is at least a partial association with time magic and darkness (Gaia, Nabriales), so they could perhaps make something out of Time Mage, especially if it focused its "time" based spells on the DOTs themselves, and perhaps single-target (rather than mass) haste buffs.

At this point, it's about the only job addition they could make that would excite me much, I suppose.

My bet would be on chemist and either a maiming or scouting job.
I would really like to see mystic/runic knight, I just hope it won't use hammers.
I just dislike this weapon ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Healer I would bet all my coins on Chemist... Apothecary sounds better and won't overlap with alCHEMIST, lol.

The dpser... Hm. I don't bet a lot on yet another melee physical dps, since there are 4 of them already, so...
- Mystic Knight, melee magic caster, but I'd love a better name for the job - uses a scimitar;
- Geomancer, a ranged dps caster utilizing the elements we see in Swallow's compass - Uses a mace/hammer and bell;

If they don't manage to fix pet AI and responsiveness, I highly doubt that we'll see Beastmaster as anything but a Limited Job;

I am definitely going to say based off the Shadowbringer content, we will more than likely have a Time Mage, but I do not see them as a healer, more like a casting type. I like there was a lot of time magic in Shadow. I wish they introduced the Time Mage then. However, I do see that as a playable class. And making skills to increase enemy vulnerability, casting curse and doom on mass pulls, decreasing defense and stopping and slowing time. That would be a fun class in my opinion. And it would have ranged attacks like Break.

The only other class I may see in the Next expansion aside from Time Mage is another Healer. I don't know how that would shape given I personally feel as playing as all 3 healers, that the healers are really balanced. Given the content, I do not really see a melee healer as a viable option given the content we have at this level. They may be good for lower level content, but then like the expert dungeon if we build the healer like a DPS it may still may not be enough to withstand attacks at close range. I am not ruling it out just my thoughts on it.

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Originally Posted by FairyDJ

I am definitely going to say based off the Shadowbringer content, we will more than likely have a Time Mage, but I do not see them as a healer, more like a casting type. I like there was a lot of time magic in Shadow. I wish they introduced the Time Mage then. However, I do see that as a playable class. And making skills to increase enemy vulnerability, casting curse and doom on mass pulls, decreasing defense and stopping and slowing time. That would be a fun class in my opinion. And it would have ranged attacks like Break.

The only other class I may see in the Next expansion aside from Time Mage is another Healer. I don't know how that would shape given I personally feel as playing as all 3 healers, that the healers are really balanced. Given the content, I do not really see a melee healer as a viable option given the content we have at this level. They may be good for lower level content, but then like the expert dungeon if we build the healer like a DPS it may still may not be enough to withstand attacks at close range. I am not ruling it out just my thoughts on it.

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I’m hoping for time mage too. So much. I hope you’re right about it.

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Originally Posted by gumas

if there is a new tank class, the best i can think is probably hammer for the weapon. either 2h hammer or hammer with giant shield.

for new healer class... maybe something like songstress? with harp as their weapon? probably no chance though since lore & look wise it will overlap with bard.

melee dps, sword whip? yoshi seems like the idea for unique weapon.

magic dps, something like talisman? you know that onmyoji stuff thingy, SB is already japan centric so onmyoji like profession is pretty much easy to put in FF14

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Now that is somthing that I didn't think of for a Healer. I think to me personally as someone who plays as a healer be a better option then a melee healer.

I just want Quick Knock to upgrade into Wide Volley. That is all.

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Originally Posted by VuuSolstice

I just want Quick Knock to upgrade into Wide Volley. That is all.

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I want that too but unfortunately we just got an update as a bard so that is not going to happen right now.

Also I know that physical ranged DPS is unlikely. But there are so many range weapons we could have. I also do not see personally a whip as a ranged weapon. Mainly because of the way now animations are set up. We seen it done before but the graphics and mechanics were 2 dimensional. Now a whip to me seems impractical to hand to a Physical Ranged DPS. I can see however.

Slingshot (With the right tools an upgrades this is possible)
Boomerang
Dice
Playing Cards (Astro uses cards to play, this is not the same concept here. This is strictly for damage purposes)
Musical Instruments (This one is kind of far fetched because Bard would need to be reworked for this to happen)
Throwing Stars.

I would put my money on a Boomerang or Dice before going the whip direction.