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    Alberel's Avatar
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    Alberel Lindurst
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    Summoner Lv 70
    Back in 1.0 a 4th Disciple of the Land class was planned that used a whip to herd animals. It never got implemented though. There's been speculation that this may eventually resurface as the Beastmaster job. I would personally absolutely love this since pet classes are my thing in MMOs and FFXIV is decidedly lacking in them.

    As far as the immediate future is concerned though I think 4.0 will bring us two or three new jobs, of which one is almost certain to be Samurai (Yoshi has teased it a few times). There's hope that we might see Red Mage, Blue Mage or Dancer as well but all three of those will be decidedly difficult to implement due to their hybrid natures that don't fit into FFXIV's rigid class structure very easily. Dancer has a lot of potential as a Disciple of War healer though, using TP instead of MP. Lots of cool stuff they could do with that.
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    Cassandra Solidor
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    Cactuar
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    Dragoon Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
    Back in 1.0 a 4th Disciple of the Land class was planned that used a whip to herd animals. It never got implemented though. There's been speculation that this may eventually resurface as the Beastmaster job. I would personally absolutely love this since pet classes are my thing in MMOs and FFXIV is decidedly lacking in them.

    As far as the immediate future is concerned though I think 4.0 will bring us two or three new jobs, of which one is almost certain to be Samurai (Yoshi has teased it a few times). There's hope that we might see Red Mage, Blue Mage or Dancer as well but all three of those will be decidedly difficult to implement due to their hybrid natures that don't fit into FFXIV's rigid class structure very easily. Dancer has a lot of potential as a Disciple of War healer though, using TP instead of MP. Lots of cool stuff they could do with that.
    Personally, I would love to see Dancer as a tank, where it uses evasion to mitigate damage. Balancing the job in such a role would be incredibly difficult, but it would be a nice change of pace for tanks who have been somewhat similar to one another at their core concept. In the end though, I suspect we'll only see two new DPS: Samurai and Red Mage-- the latter of whom will play more like a Spellsword.
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