Thief/Ninja looks to be Inbound

[hot_gilgamess]

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corsair/gunner dps: theres already a plack for musketeer in the coral tower of limsa lominsa. downstairs, they train in guns. merlwyb uses dual pistols. for your FC crest, you can already choose the dual pistol icon.

chemist: makes sense for the gunner's 2nd path- healer. the brother in the thurmaturge questline heals you with strange abilities, before he gets possessed. he's a chemist as he has no aetheric potential. also in uldah, is the alchemist guild.

puppetmaster: uldah has alot of mammets/puppets. halitali in uldah territory has alot of mammets. the pugilist guild is in uldah.

ranger: gridania's troops are rangers and lancers. we are just given bard, instead. also, one of king mog's moogles is a ranger. i think the U tribe in forgotten springs are also rangers.

thf/ninja: obviously from main story, it's basically a confirmation that their guild will be in limsa lominsa in a shadow/secret guild. hopefully, a thf can steal genji equipment from gilgamesh in future.

samurai: like someone said, during the doma refugee story, someone tells you to pick up scales. this hints at samurai, but no word or showing of a great katana at all.

red mage: alot of mobs use enaero, enstone, enthunder, etc. the code for the abilities are ingame. they are classically rdm abilities from ffxi. but no word or showing for rapiers.

far-out speculation:
maybe the civilzations that have fallen all hint at other classes.
dark knight: amdapori in Amdapor Keep seemed to have opened the voidgate, which the lambs of dalamud continue to do. maybe they will be involved in unlocking dark knight. the demons in amdapor keep and haukke manor use scythes, which can possibly be used by dark knight and
necromancer: sil'dih, uldahs sister city, resorted to raising their dead soldiers to try and win a war, which became their undoing. necromancer was a class in the iOS game Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade
geomancer: amdapor city (not keep) was supposed to be full of white mages. but the city is like an ecosystem gone awry, while the central tower is full of voidgate monsters. also the thousand maws of totorak, which used to be a jail in south shroud, is filled with "eco-monsters".

[Kirinichibon]

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red mage: alot of mobs use enaero, enstone, enthunder, etc. the code for the abilities are ingame. they are classically rdm abilities from ffxi. but no word or showing for rapiers.

I've assumed that RDM would branch off from a fencer type of class, likely fencer>redmage/runefencer

And you forgot Dancer. There's even a pretty strong hint in the current quests that it wills tart in Uldah.

[Maero]

too much speculation going on about different classes, lol.
But i really think next update will have at least one new class, gunner class probably first as it was confirmed a little ways back

[Dovah]

too much speculation going on about different classes, lol.
But i really think next update will have at least one new class, gunner class probably first as it was confirmed a little ways back

Thief/Ninja will most likely be the first class and job introduced. No other class received this much in game attention ever. And awhile back it was a, "scout" class that was talked about. If you completed the main story, you would of seen that thief was not only just hinted, it was blatantly confirmed. Yuguri even said herself that she will start training Eorzians right away in the art of her combat. Right away, to me, says an update coming sooner than we think.

[SamaelVantas]

Thief/Ninja will most likely be the first class and job introduced. No other class received this much in game attention ever. And awhile back it was a, "scout" class that was talked about. If you completed the main story, you would of seen that thief was not only just hinted, it was blatantly confirmed. Yuguri even said herself that she will start training Eorzians right away in the art of her combat. Right away, to me, says an update coming sooner than we think.

New classes are already confirmed to only come with a new expansion which has been also confirmed for 2015. It'll still be awhile, but hoping they could push it into a christmas/new years update. Alot of MMOs always have big things during christmas season. Let's just hope 3.0 is one of them.

[Exstal]

New classes are already confirmed to only come with a new expansion which has been also confirmed for 2015. It'll still be awhile, but hoping they could push it into a christmas/new years update. Alot of MMOs always have big things during christmas season. Let's just hope 3.0 is one of them.

Have link for this? Tried searching but didn't find it. Thanks in advance.

[SamaelVantas]

Have link for this? Tried searching but didn't find it. Thanks in advance.

I believe it's mentioned with the other future patches. Though it's somewhat of a speculation there have been talk about 3.0 coming out sometime next year. I'd try digging, but translating (google translate) and finding the right interview would drain me. lol Also believe Mr.Happy talks about 3.0, but I don't take his word to much to heart.

[Kitru]

Have link for this? Tried searching but didn't find it. Thanks in advance.

Yoshi has actually said that they plan on adding classes/jobs as they see fit, whether it be through a patch or an expansion, rather than attaching them only to expansions. I'd be curious to see where exactly you've seen him contradict this.

[Dovah]

He has never said classes and jobs would only come with expansions. What he said was they would be added in regular patches.

[L-D-Omlette]

He has never said classes and jobs would only come with expansions. What he said was they would be added in regular patches.

Yoshi has actually said that they plan on adding classes/jobs as they see fit, whether it be through a patch or an expansion, rather than attaching them only to expansions. I'd be curious to see where exactly you've seen him contradict this.

There was a recent interview (4th question) that implied, at this point in time, it was more likely that it would happen in an expansion. As with everything in this community that meant that this was the gospel truth, until proven otherwise.

I take it back, it was more explicitly stated than I remembered:

Nova Crystallis: With Final Fantasy XI Square Enix has released a lot of full expansion packs and smaller add-ons and now with FFXIV you guys are releasing a lot of new content as free updates. How do you decide when you make that split – when do you start charging for content and how much content is going to be in what you charge for versus what will arrive in free updates?

ARR4Yoshida: In regards to what defines an expansion – if you can imagine the amount of content and material that was released with the relaunch (2.0) – that would be about the size of what we would consider an expansion. There will be a lot of new dungeons added, a lot of deep story – something that adds value to the game’s own staff roll. There are going to be a lot of new fields that will open up as well as the introduction of new classes and jobs. So you can expect it to be pretty big for it to be considered an expansion.

We’re aiming for it to be when people see the information of the expansion coming, they will see it and say “Oh yeah, this is worth paying for.”