will there ever be a dps war?

[shanvhere]

I would love to see a dual wield war, I had the best time in ff11 as a duel war. Will there be one in FF14?

[TouchandFeel]

If by duel war, you mean a dual-wielding WAR, then I would say most likely no as that would require a different weapon setup than WAR or MRD which would not work with the way the class/armoury setup works in this game.

However a DPS class coming off of MRD, such as Dark Knight or Berzerker or something like that is both possible and fairly likely. I personally hope for Dark Knight.

[Uriel_Sinclair146]

While i'm sure there will be e dual wielding class its unlikely it will be warrior it will probably be added as a seperate class

[Crios]

Not unless DRK is going to use a two handed axe, I think Berserker will be the job for MRD, fits the feeling of the class and uses the same weapon.

As much as people want to see a great sword or scythe for DRK I think Yoshi is going to go the way of one handed sword for the job

[Gumbercules]

I wanna say MRD's DPS class is going to be viking! =D it would fit the lore of la noscea too. I could see a dual wield one hand axe class coming out later though, but I suspect first DW class will be thf with ninja as its first job.

[Crios]

I wanna say MRD's DPS class is going to be viking! =D it would fit the lore of la noscea too. I could see a dual wield one hand axe class coming out later though, but I suspect first DW class will be thf with ninja as its first job.

I would love to see Viking but it is an axe and shield job, and a tanking class that used Provoke as its primary ability.

[Gumbercules]

I would love to see Viking but it is an axe and shield job, and a tanking class that used Provoke as its primary ability.

way to burst my bubble! ; ; ff 3 warrior was the dps like job and viking the tank like job so they could just swap it around :P

[Crios]

Would love it personally.....but I love tanking and would prefer the Viking to stay tank....because cant think of a better job for my char Olaf

[Brises]

Dual wield would most likely be a rogue class. But I could see perhaps a heavy hitting dps knight or something that uses two handed weapons. Both of these are common RPG classes.

[TouchandFeel]

Not unless DRK is going to use a two handed axe, I think Berserker will be the job for MRD, fits the feeling of the class and uses the same weapon.
As much as people want to see a great sword or scythe for DRK I think Yoshi is going to go the way of one handed sword for the job

While it is likely that DRK will be a DPS job coming off of GLD, it is not entirely impossible for DRK to use a different weapon.
In the first usage of DRK in the series (FF2) the character Leon used many different weapons such as spears and axes as well. It wasn't until FF4 with Cecil that they made more of an explicit connection with DRK and sword usage. Then of course there is FFXI, where DRK used scythes.

Final Fantasy as a series has always been somewhat flexible with reinterpreting the classes and they way they function in different iterations. While the core theme and often a classic ability is shared through out, a lot changes. A perfect example is Blue Mage, where originally they were a more heavily armed and armoured casting class that learned and could then use monster abilities as magic. They wore capes and masks. Then there are characters like Relm and Gau from FF6, that in many ways were reinterpretations of Blue Mage, where they would learn and use monster abilities to fight, Relm by "painting" a monster that would come alive and attack and Gau by using his wild nature to learn the ways of the beasts and then be able to mimic their attacks.

Point being, classes and jobs could easily be reinterpreted by the dev team to work within the constructs of this game, just look at SCH.
I personally would like for the devs to make the classes/jobs work more from the game-play side of things while keeping the theme and flavor of the classic class instead of limiting themselves to trying to do a literal translation of them.

The reason I like DRK coming from MRD is that I feel it works better from a game-play perspective since I feel that more of the MRD abilities would work for DRK.

But DRK aside and more on topic, whatever Job they choose next to branch off of MRD it will most likely be a DPS job.