New interview from JP 4gamer site

[Jynx]

I hope so too man, it looks like from the post we (the people who prefer a bestiary) didn't make our selves loud enough long enough. Yoshi says somthign to the effect that we have since quieted down. Baahhh! Maybe you should move your post to "General Post" that area seems to get 100x more hits then the others .

I tried drumming up discussion on the general duscussion boards but the post got burried in hate posts at the time. With over 100 votes and a Dev response I'm more than happy with how the thread turned out.

I'll continue to champion it until we see something more than, "It's a cool idea". The dev response did say it would need to wait till after the battle changes so expect me to start shouting about it again after the battle updates are done.

[Reinheart]

I think all the "Fencer gets Red Mage" speculation is silly. Fencer isn't a class in the game. As far as I am aware, it isn't even referenced in the game. Arcanist at least gets a mention even though it's not a playable class.

Bards are traditionally wanderers, though FFXI's version of them was pretty much only as buffers. There's no music-themed class in the game, and of the classes that do exist the only one that has any sort of "wandering-ness" to it is Archer. The connection is, to put it lightly, extremely tenuous.

I think we all agree that Archer should unlock Musketeer. (Or "Ranger" but at that point you're just fishing for synonyms, so why not Hunter, Tracker, Sniper, Sharpshooter, etc?) Thematically, "guy who shoots things" leads into "guy who shoots things" quite neatly.

But this is all speculation. I haven't seen any translations other than google botch jobs and I have never heard of this magazine before so who knows how reliable this information is.

I swear sometimes this forum is as bad as those people on facebook who freak out over headlines from the Onion.

connect-on is famitsu magazine for only online games

[Kiara]

Hi Caertith,

It's from Connect! On Magazine, published by the same parent company as Famitsu (which is pretty reliable) in Japan.

http://coneon.com/

[Corrderio]

I think all the "Fencer gets Red Mage" speculation is silly. Fencer isn't a class in the game. As far as I am aware, it isn't even referenced in the game. Arcanist at least gets a mention even though it's not a playable class.

I don't know if I have the pic anymore, but there was a table of classes that were in the game files and Fencer was one of them.

[Rydin]

I don't know if I have the pic anymore, but there was a table of classes that were in the game files and Fencer was one of them.

So was Flayer... a whip class

[Chrees]

I don't know if I have the pic anymore, but there was a table of classes that were in the game files and Fencer was one of them.

Here you go!

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/4376/ffxiv.png

[Corrderio]

Here you go!

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/4376/ffxiv.png

Yeah that's a one. Shame we probably won't see any of those classes happen now because "They're not FF material" or some lame BS like that. Personally I'd love to see actual combat staves in the game.

[Physic]

Yeah that's a one. Shame we probably won't see any of those classes happen now because "They're not FF material" or some lame BS like that. Personally I'd love to see actual combat staves in the game.

combat staves would rock

[Volsung]

Yeah that's a one. Shame we probably won't see any of those classes happen now because "They're not FF material" or some lame BS like that. Personally I'd love to see actual combat staves in the game.

While I am sad to see no GSD on the list I think you are correct. We probably will not be seeing these things as originally conceived. Saddens me, was very different. Also yes, battle staves are cool, in XII it was a very unique battle style.

[_C-a-e-r-i-t-h_]

Thanks Reinheart and Kiara, updated my post.

I saw that table of jobs too, and yes Fencer and Flayer are both on there, but so are a lot of other jobs not in the game, and, most tellingly, so is Adventurer as an unarmed class. I would not call that a reliable predictor of the future direction of FFXIV, and, in any case, those classes aren't in the game now so it's really stretching it to both predict that they'll be added and predict what jobs are going to follow from them.