New Class Speculations

[Morningstar1337]

On topic:
I just personally picture Gunblade Job more as a Melee DPS over a Tank since despite how the game always picture Gunblade users in Tankish armor they attack more aggressively like DPS instead of defensively.

Genrealy speaking. This is a Correlation =/= Causation thing. The only people in this game with Gunblaes were Garlean legati, an in a refernce to XII's Arcadian Judges, ALL of them have armor. Menawhile in other Games that have Gunblade (read: VII and XIII) their wielders are not wearing metal armor (well Lightning in XIII-2 was an exception), so having Gunblade users as DPS classes as you mentioned does seem a little more likely.

[Spawnie]

i want beastmaster, puppeteer and some new gathering/crafting classes XD

[Kohta]

Dancer and Haste as Party Buff.

[Mycow8me]

I just want a reaper class (great scythe) that uses dark magic... Maybe since it obviously can't be Dark knight anymore... A Void knight or something using void magic?

Dunno why they haven't put in a gunblade class yet in either ffxi or ffxiv.

[Mahri]

Personally hoping for a new ranged caster of some kind. If not that, then whatever uses INT gear. My desire is based heavily on the need to use rad caster glamours but BLM and SMN don't quite fit my character's image, RP-wise.

To speculate a bit further, I believe new classes will, for the most part, continue to have some origin in regions of Hydaelyn, past and present. Consider the origins of existing classes, like:

Ninja: Doma
Dragoon: Ishgard/Dravania
Monk: Ala Mhigo
Warrior: Abalathia's Spine
Scholar: Nym
Black Mage: Mhach
Paladin: Ul'dah
Summoner: Allag/Meracydia
White Mage: Amdapor
Bard: Gridania
Astrologian: Sharlayan
Machinist: Lominsa/Ishgard

The only outlying tradition, with no true "origin", is Dark Knight, which is all about self-aware adventurer trials and tribulations.

We're missing something from Thavnair, the Othardian Steppe, and Garlemald. I might be forgetting other places. I don't see a distinctly Garlean class happening until, at the earliest, we get an expansion into Ala Mhigo, so our next classes might come by way of Thavnair and Othard.

Thavnair seems to have an Arabian Nights vibe going, if the glamour sets are any indication, so Blue Mage (if it sticks to the aesthetic from FFXI) is an easy match there, as is possibly Dancer, though that one, like Red Mage, has had a more western "swashbuckler" aesthetic (frilly outfits with the poofy sleeves and whatnot) in prior FFs.

What could come from the Othardian Steppe, with the roaming Xaela tribes and hostile environments? Maybe a different look for Blue Mage, or something else like Geomancer.

[Beckett]

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Classic RDM is Melee Damage/Magic Damage/Healing in equal measures. Let's take a look at what we would get with RDM in each of the roles in FFXIV:

RDM Healer
Melee Damage - Non-existent
Magic Damage - Low
Healing - High

RDM DPS
Melee Damage - High
Magic Damage - High
Healing - Low

RDM Tank
Melee Damage - Low
Magic Damage - Low
Healing - Low

It might not be exciting, but a Tank RDM is the only balanced RDM.

[EdwinLi]

Dunno why they haven't put in a gunblade class yet in either ffxi or ffxiv either.

Well it too late for FFXI but I guess it may have been due to the theme of the lands the game had during its day with no establishment of how a Gunblade Job may work.

For FF14 sometime back during 2.0 release there was a question about releasing a Gunblade Job and Yoshi-p only response was that he was saving it for when we begin progressing into Garlean Empire or once we enter the Garlean Empire. Something to do with the Gunblade Job being tied to the Garleans by lore already so he felt it should be saved for that time. Though that was 3 years ago so things could have changed and my memory is a bit fuzzy on the details.

[RLofOBFL]

.....I want RDM, SAM, DCR DNC DNR w/e the abbreviation is plz ty

[Mahri]

Though that was 3 years ago so things could have changed and my memory is a bit fuzzy on the details.

I doubt they've changed their plans here, especially if a gunblade class idea has been kicking around for years and they came right out and said so. It's just a matter of waiting for the right time to roll it out.

More general speculation...

I'd like to see a DoW Healer and a DoM Tank. Dancer and Red Mage, respectively, could do this.

Samurai would be awesome, in any form. On one hand, it seems that with Ninja as DPS, Samurai ought to be a natural counterpart as tank, but on the other, Dragoon could stand to have some company in it's currently unique "heavy" DPS role, regarding equipment selection. Back in FFXI, SAM and DRG had a bit of this going.

Class mechanics for Samurai could potentially revolve around quick-draw Iaijutsu-style moves, with damage coming in heavy bursts and high mobility, perhaps with a move similar to Doom Spike, only it propels the Samurai through the line of targets -- in fact, where ranged or AoE attacks would exist for other classes, all such SAM moves would actually propel them around like a wrecking ball (think Cammy in Street Fighter). For something different, maybe the could actually have frontal positionals and access to a strong counter that activates through a passive that allows them to absorb cleave attacks.

Oh, and cherry blossoms. Samurai needs to have cherry blossom effects in some form for everything.

[Cipher_Zaabiz]

Geomancer would be awesome, pummeling opponents to death with a cute moogle bell and using terrain magic to terrorize the opponents.

Kill them with the dreadful whool bomb of a flower field. xD

A chemist as healer would be cool, we have enough casters already