Expansion Jobs Speculation

[Mimilu]

Whatever jobs they introduce, they better introduce new classes from them to evolve from. I DO NOT want a new job that is suddenly at level 50 already. I want to spend time getting to know it before I do end game stuff.

This!
This is a very important statement.
If they added new jobs to the current classes, then players wouldn't have time to learn the job. They'd be level 50 and going into raids and dungeons playing blindly. Even though leveling can go really fast, you still play as the job for that short amount of time to learn some sort of rotation.

[SwashBuccaneer]

This!
This is a very important statement.
If they added new jobs to the current classes, then players wouldn't have time to learn the job. They'd be level 50 and going into raids and dungeons playing blindly. Even though leveling can go really fast, you still play as the job for that short amount of time to learn some sort of rotation.

Yeah, because having 5 new abilities added to your base class makes things so different and hard to play. :P

[Jennika]

From the latest Live Letter from the Producer:


Q48: Are there any plans to implement a new role such as buffer or debuffer?

A48: We will be sticking with our existing roles (Tank, DPS, Healer) for a while. This is mainly because the matching process is much faster and it’s easier to understand for the newer players. While we are not completely ruling this out, we are currently putting an emphasis on making the game easy to understand for the new players that may start playing the game from patch 3.0.


I really hope they change their mind on this one. If they aren't going to give us new roles, in my opinion the battle system could use some new depth, or we at least need some useful character growth elements.

[Mimilu]

Yeah, because having 5 new abilities added to your base class makes things so different and hard to play. :P

You don't think Conjurer becoming a DPS isn't radically different? Or a Thaumaturge becoming a Healer?
Do you also think that Summoner and Scholar play exactly the same?
Jobs from the same class need to be radically different, otherwise, at this point where you only "[have] 5 new abilities added to your base class", the classes would play too similarly.

[Jandor]

How many statements Yoshida must make before people can accept that THERE WILL BE NO THIEF ?

I haven't seen one statement saying "THERE WILL BE NO THIEF."

So... one?

[Mimilu]

I haven't seen one statement saying "THERE WILL BE NO THIEF."

So... one?

Thief will be in the game
But they'll be called "Rogues" :B

[Exstal]

I haven't seen one statement saying "THERE WILL BE NO THIEF."

So... one?

There is one.

　名称については……開発チームでも本音を言えば“シーフ”と呼びたいのです（苦笑）。でも各都市に拠点があって、クラスギルドがあるのですが、仮に地下組織でシーフとした場合、表舞台に出せず、そうなるとメインストーリー上も苦しくなります。彼らはかつてリムサ・ロミンサの港町……あ、言っちゃった（笑）……、がまだ海賊で荒れていた時代に、サンクレッドも言っていたとおり、裏で義賊的に活動していた。それがちゃんと体系化して、国にもある程度認められてギルドを持つことができた。それをずっとシーフ（盗賊）と呼び続けることは変だろうと。民衆からの尊敬の念もあり、体系化された武術として双剣士という形になった。僕らなりに考えた、今の時代のシーフを目指して作りました。

Here's the google translation,

I want to be called "Thief" speaking or truth in ...... development team for name (laughs). But if there are offices in each city, I have a class guild, but if you have a Thief in the underground organization if, it is not put out to center stage, Sonaruto will be painful on the main story. A time when it was rough in the pirate still Oh port city ...... of Limsa Lominsa, you've said but (laughs) ...,, as thunk Red was also said, they had been working in Gizoku at the back once. It was possible to organize properly it, have a guild recognized to some extent in the country. Be Yobitsuzukeru Thief and (thieves) all the time it would be strange. There is also a sense of respect from the people, I became a form of bi-swordsman as martial arts that have been organized. It made it to aim and thought we Nari, the Thief of age today.

Here's the Blue Gartr forums translation,

Truthfully, I wanted the class(*) to be called “Thief,” but the development team wouldn’t have it (laughs). You see, there are guild headquarters in each city for all of the different classes, but if we had a class called “Thief,” it would have to be some kind of underground organization since it wouldn’t make sense to just be out in the open and it would be difficult to include in the main scenario. I told them, well, Limsa Lominsa is a port town and it was once overrun with pirates (laughs)…. but as Thancred pointed out, to properly organize it, the guild would have to be recognized by the nation at least to some extent, and it would be strange if they kept calling themselves “Thieves.” Also, the dual wielding nature of rogues is a form of martial arts that has some respect among Eorzeans, so we intended Rogue to be the Thieves of today.

* Blue Gartr put "job" here, but there is no mention of the word job in the original

[ErikMynhier]

To be fair there may be only 2 tank jobs, but there is only 1 good DPS. JK, but seriously... MONK LOVE!

[HeroSamson]

I hope we get one job that is exclusive to final fantasy 14 that wasn't in other games.

A completely new job.

[ruinedmirage]

I hope we get one job that is exclusive to final fantasy 14 that wasn't in other games.

A completely new job.

"New"? I don't understand this concept. It's not in the FFXIV I was playing.