NEEDED Disciple of Magic DPS Jobs

[Galactimus]

Summoner
Black Mage
Bow Mage
Gun Mage

I count four Disciples of Magic

[Bigcat9715]

Didn't they say it's going to be a cross between caster and melee dps class?

[Kaurie]

yes, a new mage-dps for the expansion would be nice.

but red mage was always a sword-fighter in the first place with additional magic.

and all the healers are mages too, wich means 5 out of 13 jobs are mages. dark knight and to some degree paladin and ninja are hybrids between physical fighters and mages. wich means 8 out of 13 jobs can use magic.

now the red mage...

yes, this game needs another pure magic dps. no, this game needs no more mages in the next time, but more pure physisal classes... hmm... xD

Indeed, but all classes can auto attack, so 13 out of 13 jobs can be physical melee. It's just not fair!

@OP, I too would love a magic DPS. Something like necromancer, mesmer or ritualist from Guild Wars would be amazing! I highly doubt we'll get anything like that though Even red mage, as Tint said, is a sword fighter first (traditionally).

[Claire_Pendragon]

Currently there is only ONE tank that uses the darkness.
The other two use either the light, or rage.

-Sarcasm off-

We have 4 Caster DPS. yes MCH and BRD are casters now.
Saying they shouldnt be lumped together with BLM and SMN is like saying PLD shouldnt be lumped with DRK and WAR.

While I DO want more Mages, I'm not going to pretend there isnt enough ranged casters.

[SenorPatty]

I'm guessing OP wants an Offensive-centric, spell based mdps other than blm and smn. Going by the FF series jobs, that would mean a class like Magus or Sage. Outside of that realm, you have your chaos mages, your 'mancers, etc

Personally, I would've loved playing a mdps casting dark/chaos spells but with DRK already in this game, those dreams are dashed

[Kaurie]

Currently there is only ONE tank that uses the darkness.
The other two use either the light, or rage.

-Sarcasm off-

We have 4 Caster DPS. yes MCH and BRD are casters now.
Saying they shouldnt be lumped together with BLM and SMN is like saying PLD shouldnt be lumped with DRK and WAR.

While I DO want more Mages, I'm not going to pretend there isnt enough ranged casters.

That is ridiculous.

[Rhindas]

There are a wide variety of magic users in the FF world but they've combined/folded a lot of them here in this game. The "upgrade" jobs -- White Wizard, Devout, etc -- may not apply as they've phased those out of the series over time in favor of simply giving their abilities to the original job. Blue Mage has already been discussed to death and Red Mage is 99.99% likely to be on the way. They've been teasing Sorcerer/Spell Fencer for quite a while now. I'm talking since 1.0's opening video and just recently with the Devout of Darkness (though perhaps it was just a reference). So unless Red Mage gets that ability, which it might, I have to figure that at SOME point, we're gonna get it.

It is said several times in the AST quest, that time magic is one of or the highest discipline out of the arsenal of the AST...maybe AST will become time magic spells in the future, for now Arrow, Spear and Time Delitation is the nearest we have.

And I'm with you here. I agree that AST is Eorzea's version of Time Mage. They just didn't call it by that name for two reasons: there is no support role in this game and that's what Time Mages are so they had to combine/add a few things, and because they probably got tired of people saying "That's not how this job played in other games." Folks need to remember that Time Magic is not exclusively Haste/Slow. Time Mages use what's called Time/Space Magic, and AST is that.

Malefic/II is their version of Comet. Lightspeed is Quick. Arrow and Spear are functional Haste/Speed spells. They have a couple Regen spells. Celestial Opposition is an approximation of Stop. Time Dilation. Disable. Gravity. Most of the spells that are left are all Space/Celestial related. They are missing a Slow spell, but Stella has Heavy, I guess.

Not to mention the final AST quest battle.

[Saccharin]

I would like some nature magic damage job. A damage conjuror of sorts.

[Terrini]

I would like some nature magic damage job. A damage conjuror of sorts.

I have long dreamed of a Conjurer DPS branch that is a Geomancer... But that's not going to happen as a branch of Conjurer - they could have it as a bell based job like in FF5, or a Dancer based job like in FF6...

[jack891]

Would love a mage that uses combos similar to the melees, not dot management, 1 button spamming or proc based, actual combos. If they did this and maybe made it a psychic i might consider playing a mage