Will we ever see Ranger or Samurai?

[EdwinLi]

Ranger? Probs not
Samurai? Possibly

Then again, I was completely and utterly wrong about what summons we'd see as primals
spoiler for end of HW

My friend and I were talking about which FF summons would be good primals, he said something like "Man Knights of the Round would be so cool" and I responded with "That's like the ONE summon that won't be a primal cmon man" and well we all see how that turned out

Well he was right. Kotr is a cool Primal fight.

[Kaedan94]

As others have said, we won't get Ranger. BRD essentially took the Ranger role (their base class is "Archer", which is essentially the same thing).

Samurai is very likely. It was hugely popular in FFXI, just like NIN, and they gave us NIN because of that popularity. So I wouldn't be surprised to see Samurai in 4.0

[silentwindfr]

That kind of makes it sound like a base class with Shogun being a job it can get with a DPS option job in addition.

you did miss the part where they have said no more class added, i think you must accept the fact that samurai will and must'nt be a tank. mostly because it will be redundant with warrior and dark knight.

ranger will probably never come, sorry.

As others have said, we won't get Ranger. BRD essentially took the Ranger role (their base class is "Archer", which is essentially the same thing).

Samurai is very likely. It was hugely popular in FFXI, just like NIN, and they gave us NIN because of that popularity. So I wouldn't be surprised to see Samurai in 4.0

ninja was release because of the lack of "scout" jobs. since in FF series the scout are ninja or thief it was fast decided.
the next one coming will probably be red mage and dancer sadly. i don't see them add a new tank before a bit. add a new tank will not make the tank more present.

and yoshida want to add a melee mage, dancer fit perfectly with ala migho lore then it's likely to come. other point about the red mage, ilbert use a fire sword strike hinting in this direction. since he is from ala migho.

dancer will probably be a melee healer and red mage a melee mage.

[Arkista]

We'll see SAM in 4.0 for sure. The question is Tank or DPS? Most likely tank, and yes I know SAM was meant as Tank in XI. I have a feeling they are going to be adding in a mage DPS for the next expansion, I hope it is a BLU. Could care less for the healer.

As for RNG, I doubt it would be in 4.0 if ever. Already have BRD and now MCH. Only thing I could see is Yoshida doing an overhaul to BRD, change it to RNG and getting rid of all the crappy BRD song stuff, replace them with RNG skills. Will that happen, doubt it. They could do RNG like the three new Jobs, no class. But the DPS mages are really missing out.

[Eidolon]

I don't think SE will ever attempt to add a 'Ranger.'

Let's face it. It's clear SE doesn't want ranged classes doing as much DPS as Melee. It seems to be part of a risk-reward model. BRD and MCH fill this nice - the lowest DPS in the game with little risk (movement) or near-Mage DPS by being a caster.

In order for them to add a ranger, they would have to find a way to balance a Rangers risk with their reward. I think SE is earnestly worried for the balance in such a case.

[Greven]

It will depends on the general theme of what is coming. If we head to free Ala Mhigo than a dancer or berserker job would sound just right. While if we leave Eorzea for Doma or just more of the Doman culture is getting in we could easily get the samurai. There's the imperial side too.. Gunblade user! Or well, original new jobs are welcome anyway!

[Allyrion]

They've actively talking about adding Samurai. It's on the top of the list for new classes next to Red Mage.
You'll see one or both of those by 4.0. They said they won't do 3 Jobs again for sure. But maybe 2 is possible.

Ranger - I doubt it will come at this point since we got MCH this expansion.

[ckc22]

Or something unique. Like "Coercer"

*Charm* Use charmed creature to attack other creature. Has chance of fighting back or breaking depending on creature. <3

Non support ranged is basically not going to happen.

Also why wouldn't you just call it beastmaster? I'd like to see beastmaster too but still fill like it would be weird to implement - especially with so much instanced content without adds - they'd have to implement a lot of new systems (like jug pets a la XI or something) to make it work.

[Daralii]

ninja was release because of the lack of "scout" jobs. since in FF series the scout are ninja or thief it was fast decided.
the next one coming will probably be red mage and dancer sadly. i don't see them add a new tank before a bit. add a new tank will not make the tank more present.

and yoshida want to add a melee mage, dancer fit perfectly with ala migho lore then it's likely to come. other point about the red mage, ilbert use a fire sword strike hinting in this direction. since he is from ala migho.

dancer will probably be a melee healer and red mage a melee mage.

Dancer could also be a melee support, though I can't imagine what kind of offensive stuff you could give them without creating a lot of overlap with monks.

[Warlyx]

next job is going to be MAGE because we have 3 tanks, 3 healers , 3 melee dps , 2 ranged , 2 mage ....and i doubt SE will add another Ranged....

so Mage + who knows