What's Next? Story/Level/Class?

[RolandDebreton]

"MUSKETEER AND A SCOUT CLASS ARE BASICALLY OBLIGATIONS FOR THE FIRST EXPANSION" at this point....."

"More or less, some people just want to play a job that feels like thief. </shrug>....."

This is exactly what I'm thinking about it. Having said so, its fine, this is the Final Fantasy fan service. I just hope they do make it its own thing.

what makes it thiefly. Mobs hit by thieves in dungeons drop more gil? Small chance for chests to drop two items? Treasure Hunter for farming mats? Stealing as luck-based mechanism where what you steal influences what combo branches you can move through?

I am hoping they allow dynamics like this, but I'm terrified we'll fall back into our same mistakes from XI where some poor schlub becomes the token, "Thief" on the off chance he'll get them an extra drop from the BC chest, and aside from a gimmick or two the job is just a terrible DPS.

[Anonymoose]

I am hoping they allow dynamics like this, but I'm terrified we'll fall back into our same mistakes from XI

They've been pretty good about making the classes have balanced usefulness if you play them well and don't stack all the same job. Needless to say, though, a lot of people are waiting for jobs like RDM, THF, and SAM, and Team Yoshi-P have shown that if the classic feel of the class doesn't have as much use as it once did in MMOs, that they're not afraid to shake it up. Not everyone is going to be pleased. The big one I'm worried about is Red Mage. It has to be in the game at some point. It's a major FF identity, but in XI they completely ruined the aspect of a magic-based front-line "Jack of All Trades, Master of None" DPS and made it a God.