What jobs would you like to see? Both battle and crafting/gathering

[DukeBurden]

I want to see everything from Final Fantasy XI come to Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn. Let's face it, FFXIV wouldn't have been made if FFXI didn't start the MMO trek for Square-Enix. Make an expansion where we travel to Vana'diel and use that realm as our next endgame raids. Sky, Sea, Limbus, Salvage. DOOO IIIT!

[NorthernLadMSP]

Dancer (healer) and Necromancer (caster DPS)

[Deusteele]

Red Mage as a 1h Sword and Board dps. Make it function as a Magic Knight/Sorcerer job. With elementally aligned strikes that grant free instant cast spells. Otherwise it's just a crappy fighter/mage/healer that's required an OP ability that tends to be better when used by another Job.

Blue Mage as a hybrid. Able to slot abilities for each role, might make it OP for solo and world player, but in a party would have to specialise, or be that guy, you know, the SMN that runs with Titan-egi in a raid.

We'll never see Time Mage, since it was just made by ripping different buffs from WHM/BLM. Plus haste as a buff just tends to be a game-breaker and would require balancing around, which would remove the awesomeness of it as you'd be assumed to always have it. Green Mage falls under the same category as Time Mage of being cobbled together from WHM/BLM.

[KaedrianLiang]

redmage, bluemage and a real summoner please.

[Marxam]

A tank class that looks like this:

[Balipu]

-One more for red mages. They look fabulous
-Another vote for Saumrai as I love far eastern stuff Especially japanese
- +1 for Dancer as they don't sound like a class that can be done and I'm curious how yoshie-p would tackle the challenge. What would be the main weapon? Maybe it will be another doman class and we will get a fan as a weapon. We actually saw dancer outfits in the last live letter but those were probably just for glamour.
- Aaaand vampires. In bravely default the role of the blue mage was filled by vampires. They were hard to get, insanely powerful and provided a good explanation for stealing stuff from the enemy. And come on, vampires are awesome.


As for non combat classes, I don't know.

Some beast tamer would be nice for DoL classes but it would only make sense for those with a house. We need to put the tamed beasts after all.
Same problem for engineer. It would make sense now that we have a machinist, but no other class would benefit from it.

[kyuven]

- +1 for Dancer as they don't sound like a class that can be done and I'm curious how yoshie-p would tackle the challenge. What would be the main weapon? Maybe it will be another doman class and we will get a fan as a weapon. We actually saw dancer outfits in the last live letter but those were probably just for glamour.

The main weapon wouldn't be too difficult. Fan or baton would be the most likely, though since they use their legs, bangles and anklets could also be possible.
And the concept wouldn't be too difficult to come up with either. The recent reveal of how AST will work has given rise to the thought that they're experimenting with classes that can change roles, so a DNC might very well be a candidate for a job that can switch between heals and melee DPS.
Many are hoping for a TP-based healer, which would be the "simplest" solution, though i can only imagine how tricky it would be to develop.

The mechanics of MCH and AST are definitely indicative that SE isn't slacking off and making "simple" jobs.

[Balipu]

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Yeah so fan it is. I soo wanna see a Lala beat the crap out of Titan with a paper fan

Sure, stat changing and TP consuption, but what of the dances themselves? Would they be chanelled abilities? Or just simply spells with a lot of hand gestures as casting animation? The player base would tear down the SE headquarter if the dancer doesn't feal like a dancer. I'm probably in the minority with my opinion that the bard is fine the way it is. The dancer could step into the same pitfall.

[Nephisto]

I don't know what is the best ratio tank/healer/DPS, but with Heavensward, there will be 3 tanks, 3 healers, 4 ranged-DPS and 3 melee DPS. Maybe the next jobs must be a tank, a healer and a melee DPS, starting by the melee DPS. I would like to see the Samurai as a tank, the Chemist as a healer (TP-based healer) and the Red Mage as a melee DPS, but with mechanics more like Mystic Knight and a mixt of spells (MP) and skills (TP).

The Astrologist sounds like a merge of Oracle with Gambler, so I don't think we are gonna to see this jobs. Time Mage and Green Mage will only get the same buff and debuff spells of the already existing DoM jobs, so it's not going to happen.

[NolLacnala]

THF!

Oh... ;_;