New Jobs for Existing Classes (My wish list)

[Nalien]

I hope they release ranger and fix bard. We need actual support classes in the game. It would open the door to a lot of classes without pigeon-holing them into being a DD/Tank/Healer even though they don't particularly fit a single role.

Personally, I hope they change a lot of the abilities depending on Job.

For Bard, I'd hope to see Raging Strikes and Misery's End turned into Songs, a HP recovery Song and something else. Bloodletter should restore MP while on Bard, giving you a way to keep Songs up for longer. Barrage would be nice if it allowed you to play two Songs (three with the trait) at once. That way the Job would definitely feel more like Bard, assuming the songs are even useful. Ranger can work mostly as Archer does currently, just change Swiftsong to something which combos off Heavy Shot, to allow one of its Job Abilities to combo off that.

Main boost I'm still waiting for on Bard is the ability to see my goddamned Monk and Warriors TP in the party list. I have absolutely no idea why we're still stuck with XIs archaic lack of a TP meter for party members...

[Gerolan]

Ok placing bets for tonight's big reveal! Class 1) thief, with ninja and dancer as it's jobs, 2) corsair with musketeers as it's job

Least I secretly hope

[Stuzack]

**Possible spoilers ahead!**


I've always suspected that the dagger-type *class* will be something along the lines of "Scout," and the jobs will come off of that, being Thief AND Ninja. Both Thief and Ninja have been main jobs in several FF games, and I would expect the same to be here.

Based off the story's cut-scenes, Thancred appears to be a Thief, and the lady seems to be a Ninja.

I would expect both to make an appearance.

[Gerolan]

**Possible spoilers ahead!**


I've always suspected that the dagger-type *class* will be something along the lines of "Scout," and the jobs will come off of that, being Thief AND Ninja. Both Thief and Ninja have been main jobs in several FF games, and I would expect the same to be here.

Based off the story's cut-scenes, Thancred appears to be a Thief, and the lady seems to be a Ninja.

I would expect both to make an appearance.

As much as I agree and I really do, I still wouldn't rule dancer out, they've added the three quests where you discover the dancer profession, so is still a possibility, though yours is more likely right

[Rbstr]

Geomancer/Elementalist from Conjurer. I think it'd be cool to have a magic tank. Seems like it should be based on a kind of shielding mechanic. It would also do some self and party heals with big enmity modifiers on them (party heals sort of being the equivalent to the strength down and damage down debuffs Pal/war have)

Berserker/Viking from Marauder. DPS which can use the non-job-specific tank armor. Still uses a wrath expenditure mechanic, perhaps uses enmity somehow...but it has to still be able to go all out without risking pulling from a decent tank...all the other classes can in my experience. Unless it just deals crazy insane damage as a trade off.

Samurai as a counter-based tank.
Similar to War it would have an enmity combo and also a couple utility combos. Instead of debuffing the enemy they'd add to counter damage and counter damage reduction.
It feels like it should come from Dragoon, given they have Keen Furry...but man that'd be kinda hard to figure out.
It could come from the new dagger class, as it seems likely to be eastern themed. It seems easier to build a dual-job class from the ground up (like arcanist)
Or, perhaps it comes from a "sword master" class (Yay Bravely Default!) that branches to dark knight or RDM or spell/rune fencer too.

Based off the story's cut-scenes, Thancred appears to be a Thief, and the lady seems to be a Ninja.

Scions are always base classes. That's not too big a deal, but that means he either won't be a thief or some people will be disappointed (OH no!)

[Gerolan]

Also a very LONG shot but I would love summoner to get high summoner job, where instead of summoning an egi, they actually become the embodiment of a primal, I'd love to run around outside ul'dah as titan geo crushing lady birds

[Renik]

I have absolutely no idea why we're still stuck with XIs archaic party list restrictions...

Just a small correction, XI was way less restrictive than ARR, this game uses the holly trinity in it's most pure form, i doesn't allow class and pty customization. support jobs could alleviate this restriction a bit but knowing Yoshi as we know him, he will provably make a new party list.

And for me

Fencer > Blue Mage/Red Mage

That would cover my fav jobs in a single class.

[MartaDemireux]

Branches into Blue Mage and Beast Master (instead of my PGL idea), but I doubt this will ever happen.

I made a similar idea to that stemming from the Flayer class (in my sig).

My job wishlist is in my signature. Scout -> THF+NIN is another idea I had been working on but it seems kinda pointless to post the idea now with a possible reveal of the actual class today :P

But basically:

Fencer (DPS) -> Red Mage (DPS/Support) & Mystic Knight (Tank)
Flayer (DPS) -> Blue Mage (DPS) & Beastmaster (DPS/Support off tank)
Musketeer (DPS) -> Corsair (DPS/Support) & Chemist (Healer)

Archer -> Ranger (DPS with reduced movement for increased damage)
Thaumaturge -> Time Mage (Idea1: DPS/Crowd Control support; Idea2: Healer)
Pugilist -> Berserker (Tank)
Conjurer -> Geomancer (2 Ideas, both DPS)
Gladiator -> Dark Knight (DPS)
Lancer -> Templar (Tank)

[joab777]

To be honest, unless they allow u to use attributes separately, no more like arcanist. I chose arcanist b/c I wanted to be a scholar and summoner. But it isnt feasible, unless I just want a healer for dungeons etc.

Either change the price to reset attributes, or dont do it again. It just penalizes u for choosing it. Now I hav to be a white mage.

[Moqi]

Conjurer > Sage (DD, with access to spells like Banish/Banish 2/Dia etc)
Conjurer Alternative > Green Mage (Support/DD, could use the spell Leap to help people in battles like Titan)

Thaumaturge > Time Mage (Ranged DD/Support, similar to BRD)

Great suggestion for green mage (my favourite job in FF) and Time mage coming from THM would give me a reason to take up that class again. As long as Time Mage is not based on rotations:/