New Class Speculations

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Odd as it may be, I would love to see a Dancer equivalent tank whose primary niche is using evasion for damage mitigation or potentially avoiding attacks outright. Obviously, this would be quite difficult to balance, but I'd love to see more unique jobs.

[Emsii]

Unique idea, but the game suffers from people not knowing how to play their job enough already. Having somone unlock a job by doing no combat at all would make it worse.

They would need atleast 15 levels in DoM/W jobs as it says.

[Daemius]

They would need atleast 15 levels in DoM/W jobs as it says.

Eh, 15 is barely enough to unlock what? More than 5 skills? Let alone learn how your job actually functions. I like your idea from a lore standpoint, especially Alchemist going into Chemist, but from a gameplay standpoint, I have a bad enough time with people who leveled from 1-60 on FATEs.

[Kewitt]

I got cheated by it rogue becoming NINJA. And not THF. So a dancer would be my second choice to switch my main class from Warrior. Which I've been playing for to damn long and don't find it as fun anymore. However quick ques and my time means something to me is why I keep playing it.

Sam no interest in.
Red mage also very little interest in.

Beastmaster would be fun. But I don't see anyway of it working in FFXIV. It would be to similar to SMN in my mind the way they are currently doing things.
Bluemage the game would need to be reward to much to make it fit. O you don't have XXX ability because you never learned well you rotation is broken without it.

[Morningstar1337]

Bluemage the game would need to be reward to much to make it fit. O you don't have XXX ability because you never learned well you rotation is broken without it.

Make it a Healer then. They have no rotations to break :P

[Laerune]

I have probably said this many times, but I do not want to see this in 4.0:

Tank: Another knight class.
Healer: Another wizard class.
DPS: Another DoW class, we need another DoM dps.

[AlexanderThorolund]

I don't understand the want for Dancer as a healing class. We have 3 magic based healers so to give some variety it would be better to have something like Chemist. A healer that uses science to heal rather than delving into magic.

[ADVSS]

dancer was sort of like a bard in past ff iterations, besides 11, but as a melee aoe healer/debuffer, i can see it working. dow healer right there. I liked chemist too and was hoping mch was gonna be just that till it was revealed, i think a lot of us were thinking wed get a tp based healer but nawp

[VynceNiore]

They said no new classes until 4.0.

Also, they may not even release 3 classes. I think they'll probably just release two, I don't think spacing them out in patches would be a healthy marketing / gameplay idea. They want people to be excited about an expansion, and new classes is a big pull for FFXIV, I don't see why they'd put such a big feature / hype several patches into the lifespawn of an expansion.

[Morningstar1337]

I don't understand the want for Dancer as a healing class. We have 3 magic based healers so to give some variety it would be better to have something like Chemist. A healer that uses science to heal rather than delving into magic.

1. People are aprihensive of the idea of having to buy stuff to function, something I don;t they will use with chemist, but since the other iterations dud use items...yeah
2. Dancer runs on different opposite to magic, being a melee close range class rather than a magic long range class (in terms of attacks at least)
3. There is also some Lore problems, magitec including magic by entomology aside, The refernce points used for the setting seems to be in the Dark Ages an Rennasance periods for the most parts, which makes it unlikely that modern medicine such as vaccines and surgeries exist outisde of maybe Garlemald and Allag, to add what does exists int he setting includes Plague doctors (implied by the gear) using Leeches as treatment (SCH skill, though I'm unconvinced that actual leeches are used with them its does still imply their use in treatment) a General lack of hospitals (though that might be to magic cures making them redundant, and surgeries being similar nonexistent), lack of Prostethics and the use of Alchemy. All of which imply that a class that uses medicine would be improbable and as likely as a Gunblade class.
4. Besides, what weapon will they use? Giant Syringes? Scalpals?