Have the devs commented on future jobs yet?

[Dusted]

I would much rather Ninja be implemented as another DPS class. Sustained or Burst depending on skill set-up.

[Galione]

What, and doom the job once again to "you're only useful for Treasure Hunter"?

No lol... oh dear that job was never doomed.... PLD and THF were two peas in a pod as far as I remember when in battle. The only other job I liked more than THF in pt was DRK.

[Kalsoa]

I'm hoping for a Thief class linked to a Ninja job. Those 2 seem like they could blend well together and both would use dual daggers.

[Duelle]

No lol... oh dear that job was never doomed.

You haven't been paying much attention, then. The job was non-functional past lv60 when a DRK could do a better job than a THF in hate transfer. The devs then gave up and laughably turned it into a true Treasure Hunter whore, as in "we can't/won't improve your job because you have treasure hunter". Which means no real buffs to damage, no native dual wield at a sensible level (the fact THF got dual wield at lv83 is insulting in and of itself). The job as per FFXI was a sham, and best left to fade into obscurity. Hence my Rogue => THF, NIN suggestion.

[Bulwyf]

A quick thought to some of the suggestions I've seen:

We need more tank classes that have some kind of unique flavor to them. All of the suggestions I made provide for that. Dodge tanks/life drain tanks/tank that boosts party members with attacks would be something new and fun to add to the game. I'm also fine with adding more dps classes but frankly we have a lot of dps classes and so few tank and healing classes.

[Raniont]

I'm pretty sure Yoshi said that they aren't happy with the number of casters and want so that would probably be the next class/job they add in.

[Hachiko]

Musketeer or whatever (class that uses guns) is most likely the next class to be added, because it would round out Limsa best with 3 classes total, and because we already have a lot of stuff pointing to it. Also because there is only one class that currently relies on Dexterity.

I agree that we need more tanks / healers though, and in general some more support based classes would be great.

[Mazi]

We then asked Yoshida whether other classes will have access to multiple jobs, much as Arcanists can dabble in Summoner skills. He said that we'll probably see more of that in the future. There will likely be existing classes made able to branch off into other jobs, and he does consider it highly important to have variety and lots of flexibility in the game's class system. Also under consideration is the possibility of combining two jobs to form a third, such as White and Black Mages combining to form a Red Mage.

He also laughed and mentioned that there's a "high possibility" of new jobs debuting prior to future expansions.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/09...expanding-fun/


If I had to guess who is most likely coming up in terms of jobs being added it be this.

Musketeer (Limsa currently only has 2 classes and we need a straight DPS ranged class since Bard is support)

Samurai (because we only have 2 tank classes and samurai is a plausible option to be the next tank)

Dark Knight (we currently only have 2 melee dps classes and honestly how can we have paladin without dark knight? Also the Absorb spells were in 1.0 and as people know DRK was all bout dat absorb in XI so they could potentially bring them back)

[SonSmasher]

You haven't been paying much attention, then. The job was non-functional past lv60 when a DRK could do a better job than a THF in hate transfer. The devs then gave up and laughably turned it into a true Treasure Hunter whore, as in "we can't/won't improve your job because you have treasure hunter". Which means no real buffs to damage, no native dual wield at a sensible level (the fact THF got dual wield at lv83 is insulting in and of itself). The job as per FFXI was a sham, and best left to fade into obscurity. Hence my Rogue => THF, NIN suggestion.

^ this guy gets it! :3

[Molly_Millions]

Red Mage

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