The samurai trailer

[Kuwagami]

How is this relevant to FF14?

Is not. People seeing good-looking stuff and wanting it here.

Our current 10 jobs system 'normal' breakdown for (Tanks/Healers/DPSs) is 18.2%/18.2%/63.3%, but actually there is far less Healers and even less Tanks.

You should not go under the assumption that the system's proportions of jobs will be the playerbase's proportions of said jobs.

1. Heavensward is a new game that 'should' have starting classes/jobs, it is vital to add all three types to choose from.

You won't be able to start the game with 3.0 jobs. They're meant for people who completed 2.55 story arc. Thus there is no real need to have the 3 types to begin with. This solution just allows to add new gameplays in every role.

if we assume 50% of current players will play the new jobs, that will assure that tanks will possibly be out of the "Adventurer in Need" in favour for Healers.

1) you're assuming a lot. People will level new jobs for abilities to grab if there are, story, cool-looking armor, then go back to their main. Eventually, I'd be surprised if more than 20% of the players end up maining the new jobs.

2) I'm not sure why adding a new tank is suddenly going to make them not "adventurers in need" anymore, as people still won't bother to take the tank duty and just go the lazy-ass dps route.


Don't take me wrong. DPS aren't all lazy people, far from it. But lazy people tend to go for DPS most of the time because you can perform horribly from a gameplay perspective and still succeed, while a shitty tank or healer will doom the group in most content. Gladfully, the last story trial will weed out a bit these people by forcing them to perform a decent job or by stopping them at 3.0's entrance because they can't get carried through.

[Kuurei]

Kuwa. You may have just cracked the code as to why the 2.55 trial is "difficult" lol.

[Clarkamite]

Kuwa. You may have just cracked the code as to why the 2.55 trial is "difficult" lol.

Which just means there will be groups out there offering paid carries. So really in the end nothing will change. People won't be locked out of 3.0 and they'll level new jobs and most of them will go back to something they already know and love.

[Aurelinaus]

I kind of hope there will never will be a samurai simply because of the flood of Kenshin's, Kurosaki's, Gama's, Historical Japanese Swordsmen, list goes on.

[Kuurei]

I kind of hope there will never will be a samurai simply because of the flood of Kenshin's, Kurosaki's, Gama's, Historical Japanese Swordsmen, list goes on.

Ninja already caused similar stuff (Massive influx of Tsubakis/Tsubames/Kirisames), though really what is a name in a game except a resemblance of something you love? XD

[alfangel]

I remember the addition of summoner after beta release in 2.0