What Tank & Healer Class would you like to see added in Expansion 3.0?

I think a good idea would be a shapeshifting class~
I used that type of class in in mmo once before and its so much fun to use and gives you many different options in ways of play.

To adapt it into a final fantasy format, I'll put it this way.

Say when you reach level 30 - instead of getting a 'job' as it were, you learn a new way to shapeshift.

Like you could pick to shapeshift into a certain animal which gives you tanking benefits, dps benefits or healing benefits.

Kinda like being a summoner except you ARE the pet.

I doubt something like this would ever be put into final fantasy, it seems like it would be a total nightmare when it came to dungeons (like... you'd have to lock in on an animal or something), and might make it too unfair on other characters - but hey, I can dream, right?

only Jobs I'd like to see are ones from FFT: WoTL so basically

Tank: Samurai
Heals: Chemist/Dancer(seeing as they pretty much made Bard have the FFT Dancer skills instead),
Dps: Dark Knight, Machinist, Geomancer
Other jobs I'd like to see: Orator(dat Faith and Bravery), Mystic, Sword Saint(the job Orlandeau was would be DPS or Tank)

Tanks

Samurai
Necromancer- Pet is tank, and all skills will be done through pet, while pet is alive the player is immune to all dmg and effects. If pet dies, player is left with 10% hp and pets enmity is transferred to player.(DAoC esque)

Healer

Dancer-Melee healer, uses tp for skills
Priest(ess) - uses ofuda and prayer beads, prayers would be written in chains, different chains would have different effects (similar to how mudras will work)

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Originally Posted by Celesta

I doubt something like this would ever be put into final fantasy, it seems like it would be a total nightmare when it came to dungeons (like... you'd have to lock in on an animal or something), and might make it too unfair on other characters - but hey, I can dream, right?

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Or we could give the other jobs more versatility. : O
But that would probably quickly be called loss of identity...

My 2 cents:
Tank (with dps option) - Samurai or Sword Saint
Healer - something new (Spiritweaver, Druid, w/e), or a decently powerful but hybrid take on Dancer

I just want to see Blue Mage as a tank. Something that gets stronger from taking hits so it can learn abilities screams tank to me. Mitigation could be through absorption via Bear tank or brewmaster in WoW. Throw in a CD where it can absorb damage and then reflect it back out. Use Detonate like a bomb for AOE, it's stun can be the electrical discharge that couerls use.

Dancer as a Rogue's healer job. Do it, SE.

It's got FF pedigree, it's a tp based healer class which sets it apart, it doesn't need to stay still, which sets it apart, but it needs to stay in melee range which also sets it apart. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a viable healer job that plays so differently from the others.

Tank? umm... idk

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

The idea of a tank range class sounds great, but there are many factors that go into tanking and it seems to me that if a ranged tanking class is added they would be able to outperform the other tanks.

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Well the whole Range Tank in SWTOR wasn't really a Range tank. It was more of a Melee Tank that can hit enemies faster when they're far away since the entire time as a Vanguard/Power Tech you are mostly at Melee range to tank them and to use your skills while any range attack was for grabing aggro from mobs that start running away from you or were too far to get back into melee range. Not to mention a good amount of Vanguard/Power Tech skills were melee range attacks.

If FF14 obtains a Range tank that follow like the Vanguard/PowerTech then it most likely may be the Gunblade class since FF14 lore for gunblade is set towards it being a Melee/Range combat weapon similar to how Vanguards and Powertechs of SWTOR handle their weapons. With the tank skills designed around the Gunblade melee combat style to build and keep aggro while using hit range combat skills to grab aggro for its Tank Job Path and having a DPS Job path for Gunblade class follow that it focus on using the Gunblade range combat style for DPS combat while having some melee skills that helps the Gunblade DPS Job fight off or keep its distance from enemies that would try to get in melee range.

That just how I think a Gunblade class/Job could be handled in FF14 due to current combat styles shown through cutscenes in FF14 involving the Gunblade so far.

Gunblades for sure can be used for tanking but a true gunner would feel weird especially since we have classes that would be better suited for the role like puglist and lancer. However, what job would a gunblader unlock it would have to be something completely unique

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Originally Posted by Brightshadow

Gunblades for sure can be used for tanking but a true gunner would feel weird especially since we have classes that would be better suited for the role like puglist and lancer. However, what job would a gunblader unlock it would have to be something completely unique

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Well they're aiming for Unique gameplay styles now anyways with the new classes/jobs and a gunblade class/job does provide a unique opportunity for a unique gameplay style due to the weapon's nature for being a melee/range combat weapon in FF14.

I'm more curious what will the Gunblade class/job names will be if added into FF14 since there hasn't been a solid name given to classes that use Gunblades in FF series unlike the other weapons.

I'd like to see Vampire as tank and Templar as healer.