Do YOU think we'll get a new Tank and/or Healer in 4.0? And vice versa.

[SendohJin]

That said, there are different types of dps: melee, ranged, and magic. We don't have that yet with tanks and healers, so the 1:1:2 ratio doesn't necessarily have to be enforced as far as having different classes go.
Personally I'd like to see another ranged dps class. One who isn't a 'support' type.

The ratio is 3:3:4:3 Tank:Melee DPS:Ranged DPS:Healer

you want 4:4:4:4 so the missing ones are Tank, Melee, Healer.

that would work for balancing Light Parties and Full Parties.

[Anzaman]

Nope. My guess is they will add only two jobs: Red Mage and Samurai. And both of them will be DPS.

[Katana190]

Here's my say on it. I really want them to add a new tank and healer to fix the issue that WAR and SCH's are so essential to raid scenario's. But there are other alternatives to this, balance healers and tanks so we could see raid compositions like PLD/DRK and WHM/AST in progressive content without getting gimped. Idk how they would do this but I want to see one or the other to fix this issue. Maybe its just an issue to me personally but I feel like this issue should apply to everyone else, being someone who has been playing WAR since 2.0, its getting rather stale.

Edit : I do believe SE will do one or the other of my mentioned suggestions, if not I don't think the Tank/Healer community will stay healthy. To clarify its not about making the Tank/Healer popularity grow but more to keep the popularity as it is, with a chance of growing it. If neither are done the popularity will decline and SE will not want this, and neither would the rest of the community, it wouldn't be good for any of us.

[DeadRiser]

It's funny that people have been asking for Blue Mage but it won't be the kind of Blue Mage they are expecting if they are working on that.

And Red Mage will not be a dps since Samurai was already said that it would be a dps. Red Mage will either be healer or tank and I'm leaning more to a tank.

As for a healer... I'm hoping for dancer.

[Jandor]

I think they'll totally rework the class/job system and we'll get no full jobs but instead be presented with a bunch of sub-jobs that can be used to augment existing jobs, because it neatly solves the problem they have that a whole bunch of classic FF jobs don't really fit into the Tank/Healer/DPS trinity.

Ok, I don't really think they'll do that, would be neat though IMHO.

[cammi]

It's funny that people have been asking for Blue Mage but it won't be the kind of Blue Mage they are expecting if they are working on that.

And Red Mage will not be a dps since Samurai was already said that it would be a dps. Red Mage will either be healer or tank and I'm leaning more to a tank.

As for a healer... I'm hoping for dancer.

So it's confirmed? A DPS that actually uses a sword? IS this true? I know I heard some rumors as well but where did you get this info? I'd cream my jeans if Samurai is DPS.

[Katana190]

So it's confirmed? A DPS that actually uses a sword? IS this true? I know I heard some rumors as well but where did you get this info? I'd cream my jeans if Samurai is DPS.

The only quote that's been said is this. This confirms nothing and people keep spreading this misinformation that its been confirmed, when it really hasn't.

"Regarding Samurai
They had an idea to make Samurai a tank. However because the Heavensward (I think they call it Souten no Ishigard in Jp) theme is dark, they felt a dark knight was more fitting for the role.
Inside of YoshiP the Samurai feels more like a DPS than a tank.
Since they released the Ninja job,they didn't want another Japanese style job
They decided to skip Samurai for now but since a lot of people request it they are still examining whether to add it in the future"

[SendohJin]

So it's confirmed?

no, it's not. we're unlikely to get anything like a confirmation till Fanfest.

[Warlyx]

when they added nin , the DF was bad D:

DRK was way more popular than MCH and AST , it was awesome time for leveling , you could level a dps in DF like tanks do now

but if any of the new jobs is Tank ugh ....we really dont need more tanks ...another healer like dancer could work , but melee and healer dont mix well :/

[Korbash]

It's be foolish to add more tanks and healers, it won't make the players play them more, considering only a minority play them. In the other hands, adding more DPS jobs would make more sense and make most people happy. I think we really need more magic DPS jobs to be added, considering there are only 2 mage jobs right, which is really not fair to anyone - like me - who love playing mage classes/jobs.