New phys ranged job guesses and wishes

Question 1: What weapon type and/or job would you want?
Question 2: What weapon/job do you think the dev team would add based on what we've seen already?

If I post something you already wanted to write about don't feel discouraged from sharing your desired vision of our shared request.

I'd like to see a Castlevania inspired weaponmaster job with a whip, flying swords and maybe a crossbow. Give it a vampire hunter aesthetic and I'm sold.

A circus style juggler with assorted weapons and toys would be unique aesthetically. I'd like it be tied to the masked carnival as a lore bonus for people who play blue mage.

The idea of a DPS chemist job with loose inspiration to Final Fantasy V's mix system but with much flashier and more offensive abilities would be good too. This has been a hot demand as the first non magical healer for sometime. I could see this being a dot based dps with a dot spreading nuke like a flashier combination of bane and fester from old summoner/scholar

Despite it being a popular healer idea, I want chemist/apothecary to be a phys ranged. Give it a crossbow, and potion satchel, and its gameplay involves mixing up potions, and poisons (perhaps it could steal a system like NIN Mudras) with lots of debuffs, and debuff interactions. Also fill the job story quest to the brim with Breaking Bad, and Apothecary Diaries references -- like the quest/leveling achievement could be called 'The One Who Nox/Nocks.' The artifact gear could a mix between a hazmat suit, and a plague doctor outfit.

I think we also need a pirate themed job like Corsair. Give it two guns, and a sword. Its gameplay could revolve around gaining, and maintaining buffs from a simple melee combo, and using those buffs on ranged rotation. I think having some kind of coin flip mechanic could be cool.

A whip user a la Castlevania could also be pretty cool.

Also, no matter what, I want them to experiment with walking casts for phys ranged.

Chemist does seem like a likely choice, although I do agree it might be better as a healer.

I would love to see physical range job (raider)
Pet class but for physical

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Originally Posted by Reginald_Cain

I'd like to see a Castlevania inspired weaponmaster job with a whip, flying swords and maybe a crossbow. Give it a vampire hunter aesthetic and I'm sold.

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That's... Honestly a good idea. The crossbow or whip could be the main weapon while the knives would be cooldowns and utilities.
If at some point we go in a Void expansion (which we know we will), the job would completely fit the aesthetic.

As for your questions...
What I want: Gunslinger job or crossbow job, Dancer and Bard lean too much in the "Art" type of job while Machinist feels like it doesn't fit in the role.
What I think: (Dual) Gun focused job or whip are highly requested at least from my perspective, that's what I believe will happen the most. Maybe they will even name it corsair to finally complete the Limsa empty guild.

I'd like a grenadier if just to bring back grenado shot. But more seriously, someone literally using grenades like a wicked version of chemist. Doesn't Pathfinder have a similar sub class? I'd dig it.

Thief maybe.
Throwing knives and a lot more references to actual FF thief, have it like RDM where it's mostly a ranged but has a couple of melee moves.
This won't happen because apparently Thief is too evil of a job for our morally righteous character (Who uses the Void and assassination arts from Garlemald.)

Boomerang 🪃 will be cool to see it is like chain attacks based on correct timing rather than rotation

Gunner or Grenadier
Main Hand: Howitzer

Following the discovery of explosives, the engineers at Garlond Works developed a new combat class based on them.

Prerequisite Machinist level 90, start level 90 in expension 8.0

Quest giver: Northern Thanalan Explosives Expert "With a lot of boom to success"

The gunner is the physical counterpart to the black mage. Initial commands commands have a minimum cooldown of 2 seconds. Correct positioning and observing the mechanics of the enemy are the key to success in doing real damage.

Sniper shot: Low damage, but quick to execute, single target

Aim: Set marked enemy as target, then wait 2 seconds before => procc

Shoot in: Place an AOE on the field, then wait 2 seconds before => procc

Proccs:
Aim => Explosive grenade: Single target, medium damage

Aim => Stun grenade, 5% more damage on target, 2 minutes

Shoot in=> cluster grenade: AOE, medium damage

Shoot in=> Phosphorus grenade: AOE + DOT one minute

Shoot in=> Fire cover: Gives all players in the marked AOE 10% more protection against magical or physical damage for 2 minutes

Instruments:
Mineloader: +10% after single target attack, +5% after AOE attack
If 100 %: procc "mine launcher"

"Mine launcher" throws a mine at a marked location. If an enemy comes near it, it explodes. AOE with high damage, can be executed immediately. After 1 minute mine explodes.

Cannon loader has status: barrel cleaned => load grenade => propellant charge == breech closed. This bar is loaded by damage that Grenadier does to enemies, if 100% procc "Bunker Shell"

"Bunker Shell" does high damage, can be executed immediately

"Set trench", instant group shield similar to Paladin, cooldown 2 minutes

From level 110 on, "mine launcher" becomes a "mine barrier"

"mine barrier" lays several mines in the target area.

Limit break: 250 kg aerial bomb => 500 kg aerial bomb => 1000 kg aerial bomb
Very high damage!
Yes, you can carry heavy bombs in your Howitzer. How? It's Final Fantasy!

If they bring new physical ranged, I hope summoner become caster again with more than 2 cast per minute

Minigame or no, Blitzballer seems as good a choice as any if we're calling back to previous games in the series

the rising event has hinted at future jobs before, and this time we encountered someone claiming to be a "Cannoneer"
which was a job in FF5.

Juggler: Uses three spiked balls as a weapon and its abilities involve throwing various items likes bombs and knives to deal damage and inflict debuffs. Artifact gear is designed like that of a jester.

It also makes people sad because it reduces the chance of there being a Blitzballer job.

There are a lot of available weapon options here. Crossbows, dual pistols, and boomerangs are all straightforward options. Whips and flails could be made to work as a ranged option, but Yoshi-p discussed some difficulties around having weapons with a complex 'bone' structure in their models during a Dawntrail interview.

There are a lot of thrown weapon options as well. You could go the Chemist route with potions, a Gambler with thrown cards, or even a Merchant with some form of gil toss. A jongleur could offer various form of juggled/thrown weapons. Throwing knives and hatchets are options as well. There are a lot of directions they could go with this.

I'd like to see them clarify the design direction for Physical Ranged and its relationship to Ranged jobs in general. Are they support orientated? Are they damage orientated? Do they bring value that Magical Ranged doesn't outside of a 1% raid buff? I think the answer to these questions would inform new job designs in the role.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

Chemist does seem like a likely choice, although I do agree it might be better as a healer.

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Honestly I think this statement high-lights the problem with Phys ranged in general - they function as supports AND DPS which is only really messed with because machinist exsists. I would love to see Chemist as a support class vs a RDPs - If I were pressed for a RDPs I would say Cannoneer from V or Maybe Dragoner given we are probably due to going to a place with lots of Dragons.

Split Bard and Archer and make a real Ranger/Hunter job? lol that’s not really ‘new’ jobs though.

Maybe they could give a job the weird launcher thing Rinoa uses in ff8. I feel like it’d be cool to see a ranged with a really ‘out there’ weapon lol. +1 if you can shoot a dog out of it.

Honestly in regards to Chemist I’d rather they were healers personally. Mostly because they’d actually be allowed to have support and utility as part of their toolkits in addition to poisons/debuffs. If they made a phys ranged Chemist it’d just be a pure DoT job with some entirely passive raid buffs, some unnecessary utility and a 120 sec raid buff. As a healer they could have much more variety with support/debuffing (despite phys ranged apparently being a ‘supporting’ dps role, but then Machinist lol)

Since Machinist keeps heading in more of a robot/mech/tools direction, I'd like to see a Gunner/Corsair job with dual pistols and some of the cannoneer flavour that others have mentioned.

Alternatively Juggler would be very welcome, with multiple thrown items (daggers, balls, hoops, cards, grenades, poisons, potions) as attack flavour.

I don't want Blitzballer.

A huge boomrang for range purpose and a long whip for burst. Make it with a dmg utility. DMG should be a bit below MCH raw dmg. Basically the reaper of phys range. The Name: Hunter. I would dig that.

If anything, adding another physical ranged might save you all for the at least a couple patches. look at what PCT has done for casters