Healing Gunner Planned?

[RyuDragnier]

It'll probably be Chemist. In most of the FF games, Chemist (they can't call it Alchemist here) usually has a gun, and uses items for healing, some they make themselves. X-2 mixed it up even more with them pulling healing items out of NOWHERE to heal themselves and the party. Considering how SE likes to make things up on the go, it'll either be like Ninja where we have set manual mixes that create things depending on the mix, it'll be them pulling things out of nowhere, or maybe they'll actually use inventory healing items and make them godly (seriously SE, why is this the ONLY FF game where items are useless?).

[Lori]

Think some people only played FFXI out of the Final Fantasy series due to their obstinate belief that if it doesn't match Final Fantasy XIs version of a job, it aint staying true.

Thing is SE do things differently with each Final Fantasy. Get over it.

DRK was not usually a tank. Get over it

[Cynfael]

It'll probably be Chemist. In most of the FF games, Chemist (they can't call it Alchemist here) usually has a gun, and uses items for healing, some they make themselves. X-2 mixed it up even more with them pulling healing items out of NOWHERE to heal themselves and the party. Considering how SE likes to make things up on the go, it'll either be like Ninja where we have set manual mixes that create things depending on the mix, it'll be them pulling things out of nowhere, or maybe they'll actually use inventory healing items and make them godly (seriously SE, why is this the ONLY FF game where items are useless?).

Yoshi doesn't like the idea of battle depending on consumables. That's why Ninja won't be having a Throw command. If Chemist becomes a thing, it's more likely that items appear out of thin aether, as it were.

[Kling-Klang]

"hey mate, re you in pain? No problem, gonna finish you /shot"

I want this!

[Ilitsa]

You're awesome

Exactly this post here.

[Fyrebrand]

Dark Knight's most defining, signature trait is that it always has some attack ability which sacrifice's your own HP. That's pretty much the polar opposite of what a Tank should be doing. Aside from that, some games give Dark Knight an assortment of offensive debuff skills, but nothing that particularly lends itself toward protection, damage mitigation, or attracting enemy attention. Heavy armor doesn't mean anything either. Dragoon wears heavy armor, and it's not a tank.

Anyhow, regarding Yoshi-P's 007 shirt... did he actually say it was a hint about a new class? Or is it just a shirt? If James Bond is intended to be a clue, then I would guess it is a gun-based class that depends on sophisticated gadgets or tools. So, maybe Machinist, but also could be Chemist or just plain Gunner.

[Narukuchan]

I reckon it'll be either Corsair or Chemist.

[zandervont]

Anyhow, regarding Yoshi-P's 007 shirt... did he actually say it was a hint about a new class? Or is it just a shirt? If James Bond is intended to be a clue, then I would guess it is a gun-based class that depends on sophisticated gadgets or tools. So, maybe Machinist, but also could be Chemist or just plain Gunner.

"Yoshi-P takes off his Batman shirt, wearing a James Bond shirt underneath. Does gun motions, says he loves James Bond, says he loves the movie Man with the Golden Gun"
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ning_ceremony/

[Cynfael]

It's not difficult to imagine DRK as a tank role. Probably a lower mitigation vampiric tank that depends on offensive cooldowns to counter-heal damage received, combined with increased enmity generation. Could work nicely as a high skill-ceiling/high payoff offensive tank that fails miserably in the hands of a lazy or otherwise bad player.

[Prototype909]

It's not difficult to imagine DRK as a tank role. Probably a lower mitigation vampiric tank that depends on offensive cooldowns to counter-heal damage received, combined with increased enmity generation. Could work nicely as a high skill-ceiling/high payoff offensive tank that fails miserably in the hands of a lazy or otherwise bad player.

Or it could just be like 2.0 Warrior and legitimately be a horrible class that you would never want in your end-game group because it can't survive without the mitigation that is needed.