So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

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Originally Posted by BlackCross

In the interview he said that the new class is a "spider webber", so I think the new job might use strings.

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Do you know what a joke is?

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Originally Posted by Rhaja

To be fair, if he said "I can't really talk about that," or gave any other quick pass it would be a huge red flag for the class. And as long as he states it as his belief he's not speaking for the team and whole of FFXIV.

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The thing is, he brought up BLU and BST without being questioned about it. It's not like the guy asked him about Blue Mage and he deflected with a personal opinion of how it should be done to avoid confirmation. The guy said he predicted Shogun as a tank job for 4.0 and then Yoshida brought up BLU and BST, i.e. he used them as deflections to avoid talking about Shogun/samurai or even acknowledging them. That's more telling in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Shippuu

That's more telling in my opinion.

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I don't know, Yoshi seems to be playing into us picking everything he says apart this year. Him making those jokes about the reddit threads kinda leans towards that. While I agree that him dodging talking about SAM/SHO is a bit telling, I am also wondering a bit, that he might be doing that to mess with us. To make us look over towards SAM to distract us from something else. I can't tell, but Yoshi's playing a pretty mean troll game this year.

Many Dev & Community Team Members have stated the enjoyment they get out of Job Speculation threads.

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Originally Posted by Blazinhart

Tinking about Jobs Who uses a Whip-like as weapon, there\\'s DNC in FFT.
That\\'s my guess.

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You are gonna get BLU fans into a stir. So I will just say it for them.

Quistis from FFVIII uses a whip and....

Monster Abilities

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Originally Posted by StarRosie

I don't know, Yoshi seems to be playing into us picking everything he says apart this year. Him making those jokes about the reddit threads kinda leans towards that. While I agree that him dodging talking about SAM/SHO is a bit telling, I am also wondering a bit, that he might be doing that to mess with us. To make us look over towards SAM to distract us from something else. I can't tell, but Yoshi's playing a pretty mean troll game this year.

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Double misdirection? D: I love and hate Yoshi-P, seriously.
I honestly think he's avoiding the subject on SAM/SHO for a reason though, and to me the whole director thing and spiderman samurai is too coincidental. But I won't discredit the BLU theory, although I personally don't think they'll do 2 mages in 1 expansion. Just my input though.

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Originally Posted by Katana190

Double misdirection? D: I love and hate Yoshi-P, seriously.
I honestly think he's avoiding the subject on SAM/SHO for a reason though, and to me the whole director thing and spiderman samurai is too coincidental. But I won't discredit the BLU theory, although I personally don't think they'll do 2 mages in 1 expansion. Just my input though.

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Keep in mind, I'm not saying he is WITHOUT A DOUBT doing double misdirection. I get a feeling he might be. I've stated my opinion of the Sam Raimi theory before, so I won't beat that drum. I just think Yoshi-P and the team are playing into the speculation rather then just observing it for the giggles. We'll see, it could just be SAM with a connection that NO ONE saw coming or he could honestly be presenting something to us and we're not seeing it cause it's right under our nose. Either way...this is pretty fun to watch/discuss.

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Originally Posted by GMERC

Do you know what a joke is?

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Yes?

All of this T-shirts have been incredibly blunt so far (example: Scarlet witch), this is the first one where people are really unsure. I just thought I would go with the most obvious (for me): Spider man- spider webs- strings.

If that sounds weird or like I'm taking his joking around too seriously, then remember I'm just having fun speculating.

I don't know. If we go off of what is blunt, I would say the next class is Blue Mage. Spiderman acquired his powers by being bitten by a spider, like Blue Mages get their powers from Monsters. It doesn't seem much more blunt than that. You take the core of the hero and match it to the core of a Final Fantasy class.

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Originally Posted by Shippuu

The thing is, he brought up BLU and BST without being questioned about it. It's not like the guy asked him about Blue Mage and he deflected with a personal opinion of how it should be done to avoid confirmation. The guy said he predicted Shogun as a tank job for 4.0 and then Yoshida brought up BLU and BST, i.e. he used them as deflections to avoid talking about Shogun/samurai or even acknowledging them. That's more telling in my opinion.

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Before this fan fest I was all in for Sam being a DPS, but after reading your pot and logic - I'm all in for Sam tank. I love reading your post b/c you seem to make the most logic arguments for Sam being a tank. Perhaps the Spider-Man job is related to a possible new healer job no one knows yet - i m hopping for a dancer with whip b/c I can't think of what other healer job it could be.

I sincerely hope it's a Blue Mage hint!

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Originally Posted by BlackCross

All of this T-shirts have been incredibly blunt so far (example: Scarlet witch), this is the first one where people are really unsure. I just thought I would go with the most obvious (for me): Spider man- spider webs- strings.

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You also have to look at the shirt he wears in context of what is said when he wears it. I'm pretty sure I read a translation where he said, "I like red, but also blue." All while wearing a Spider-Man shirt. And if you put that together, with the origin story of the superhero in question, BLU is very obvious and blunt. Bit by a spider and gained it's powers.

That being said, RDM is a whole new thing for FFXIV. Who says they can't combine traditional BLU with something borrowed and something new? Maybe it will combine the powers of BST and BLU. Maybe this BLU will trap monsters to learn their powers.

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Originally Posted by GMERC

Do you know what a joke is?

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Jokes can be clues. :/

If it's blue mage, I'm afraid it will end up like a SMN version of blue mage in order to fit into the trinity. Many people maybe disappointed in how it turns out.

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Originally Posted by RukiaFae

If it's blue mage, I'm afraid it will end up like a SMN version of blue mage in order to fit into the trinity. Many people maybe disappointed in how it turns out.

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Blue Mage doesn't need to be a stupid create-a-class like it was in XI to be good in XIV.

http://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...fd2a2c8697b132

I think this is an hint to Blue Mage.
Crimson is opposed to Azure.
In French it's even more obvious as it clearly says Red and Blue.

Crimson embers, Red Mage DPS.
Azure lost amidst the squall, Blue Mage Tank.

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Originally Posted by Bonkleberry

Crimson embers, Red Mage DPS.
Azure lost amidst the squall, Blue Mage Tank.

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It's a 3.5 hint not a job hint

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Originally Posted by Gourry

It's a 3.5 hint not a job hint

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And yet the picture right below is a picture of a Red Mage.

It could also be both.
The picture has a red mage riding what I suppose to be the 3.5 mount from getting all birds.

Also, it is an eastern poem. And we are going east in 4.0.

So what? Did you think they were going to try and fit the word Samurai into a proverb? Blue is a damn color. Grass is green, doesn't mean Green Mage is being hinted at since 1.0

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

And yet the picture right below is a picture of a Red Mage.

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Riding towards the sunrise in the proverb no less.

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Originally Posted by Bonkleberry

Riding towards the sunrise in the proverb no less.

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it's written on stone, geomancer confirmed
but sorry yeah you're right a fan art picture of what i imagined to be yoshida riding off on the garo cross event mount blue mage confirmed
Get a grip people lol

And you think there is no meaning in this poem ? Didn't you ever read a single sentence they said/wrote in the past ?
It could of course be nothing related to blue mage, but it is obviously teasing something.

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Originally Posted by Garnix

And you think there is no meaning in this poem ? Didn't you ever read a single sentence they said/wrote in the past ?
It could of course be nothing related to blue mage, but it is obviously teasing something.

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yeah probably not just a proverb relating to the next big patch coming 3.5, definitely blue mage confirmed

Describing the Rising Sun, Samurai confirmed... Stahp. I can make it sound like SAM is confirmed too.

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Originally Posted by Katana190

Describing the Rising Sun, Samurai confirmed... Stahp. I can make it sound like SAM is confirmed too.

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haha right? everyone's like rabid vultures, the second there's anything from yoshi or SE they jump on it and peck it to death, i enjoy the speculation of this thread but enough is enough when it gets down so low as AZURE IS A TYPE OF BLUE, BLUE MAGE CONFIRMED

Has absolutely nothing to do with dancing. DANCER CONFIRMED! /eyeroll

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Originally Posted by Gourry

haha right? everyone's like rabid vultures, the second there's anything from yoshi or SE they jump on it and peck it to death, i enjoy the speculation of this thread but enough is enough when it gets down so low as AZURE IS A TYPE OF BLUE, BLUE MAGE CONFIRMED

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Wow, dramatic much?

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Wow, dramatic much?

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Wow, deluded much?

just calling it how it is.

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Originally Posted by Gourry

Wow, deluded much?

just calling it how it is.

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LOL, yeah you really called me out. Ouch.

Anyways, carry on being bitter and trying to start arguments over fun speculation.

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Originally Posted by Gourry

haha right? everyone's like rabid vultures, the second there's anything from yoshi or SE they jump on it and peck it to death, i enjoy the speculation of this thread but enough is enough when it gets down so low as AZURE IS A TYPE OF BLUE, BLUE MAGE CONFIRMED

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Well, I didn't say it confirms it. But I still take it as an hint.
It could mean anything really, as you just said.
It's not just the "azure" thing, but the fact it is directly opposed to red.
Again, it looks more obvious in the French version in my opinion.
Maybe you are right.
Maybe we are both and it has several meanings, as they like to do such things too.
We will never know.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

LOL, yeah you really called me out. Ouch.

Anyways, carry on being bitter and trying to start arguments over fun speculation.

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you're the one instigating I meant i was calling the situation how it was not you.... forget it lol

i hardly call it fun when people start getting silly about colours, like i get it, everyone wants blue really badly and will see it in every word that gets printed between here and feb, all i said was i thought enough was enough at that point

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Originally Posted by Garnix

Well, I didn't say it confirms it. But I still take it as an hint.
It could mean anything really, as you just said.
It's not just the "azure" thing, but the fact it is directly opposed to red.
Again, it looks more obvious in the French version in my opinion.
Maybe you are right.
Maybe we are both and it has several meanings, as they like to do such things too.
We will never know.

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You have seen the Stormblood teaser, right? With the two characters fighting? Don't tell me you're trying to say that Monk in the trailer having a blue glowing fist is supposed to represent Blue Mage.

Somebody seems salty >.>

But anyway, there is no jump to reasoning going on here. We get a weird passage about crimson, synonymous with the color red, and a rising sun. Then we get a passage about azure, synonymous with the color blue, and a setting sun. All of this followed by a picture of a red Mage with a sun rise in the background... The post is either a giant troll, a legitimate hint towards Blue Mage, or an unintended coincidence.

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Originally Posted by Bonkleberry

Somebody seems salty >.>

But anyway, there is no jump to reasoning going on here. We get a weird passage about crimson, synonymous with the color red, and a rising sun. Then we get a passage about azure, synonymous with the color blue, and a setting sun. All of this followed by a picture of a red Mage with a sun rise in the background... The post is either a giant troll, a legitimate hint towards Blue Mage, or an unintended coincidence.

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Or completely unrelated and just a hint to the story and whats going to start the events leading from 3.5 to the xpac, which is infinitely more likely

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Originally Posted by GMERC

You have seen the Stormblood teaser, right? With the two characters fighting? Don't tell me you're trying to say that Monk in the trailer having a blue glowing fist is supposed to represent Blue Mage.

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Red vs Blue seems to be the THEME, not specifically the MNK is a blue mage, or even that the other MNK is a RDM. But, that the theme of Red vs Blue is everywhere at this point. Red vs Blue auras, Yoshi P saying spiderman is red..... but he's also blue, the crimson vs azure poem. Also specifically the word "Azure" was used to describe a lot of stuff with Blue Mage in FFXI, their 2hour ability was called "Azure Lore".

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Originally Posted by Jem

Red vs Blue seems to be the THEME, not specifically the MNK is a blue mage, or even that the other MNK is a RDM. But, that the theme of Red vs Blue is everywhere at this point. Red vs Blue auras, Yoshi P saying spiderman is red..... but he's also blue, the crimson vs azure poem. Also specifically the word "Azure" was used to describe a lot of stuff with Blue Mage in FFXI, their 2hour ability was called "Azure Lore".

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Azure huh? Dragoon confirmed for 4.0.

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Originally Posted by Garnix

In French it's even more obvious as it clearly says Red and Blue.

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The Japanese uses the Kanji "蒼" or aoi for blue which is the same as azure dragoon/蒼の竜騎士. But the word aoi itself can just mean plain blue, aoi is the adjective form of ao which is just plain blue. They translated it to azure in the game to fit better with the setting.

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Originally Posted by Jem

Red vs Blue seems to be the THEME, not specifically the MNK is a blue mage, or even that the other MNK is a RDM. But, that the theme of Red vs Blue is everywhere at this point. Red vs Blue auras, Yoshi P saying spiderman is red..... but he's also blue, the crimson vs azure poem. Also specifically the word "Azure" was used to describe a lot of stuff with Blue Mage in FFXI, their 2hour ability was called "Azure Lore".

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oh for goodness sake lol

at no point has there been a "theme" of red and blue, and to debunk all of that other trash, the derplander has been officially confirmed by yoshi that hes wearing the new monk AF gear so no, he's not a blue mage, he just has a blue energy aura and no it's not a super mystic secret blue mage confirmed hint, it's literally just to look cool.......

the female monk has red clothes and a red aura and no she isn't a red mage either
yoshis statement was oh yeah the red in my t shirt is because it goes with stormbloods theme of red there was no mention of the blue as usual that's all come out of the wild speculation of the people with confirmation bias over blue mage
so since we're all over analyzing some flavour text about the upcoming patch let's see....