PAX 2017 : Request the next new Job

[Cidel]

If the devs do decide to make Dancer, I'd hope its not a DPS+frontline healer like some people are asking. I seriously doubt they would want to balance fights to be viable for both healers that can keep a distance and healers that need to be right up there next to the tank and melee to perform optimally. Things like EX Ifrit's healer debuff need to be eliminated amongst other mechanics.

And you think the healer DPS arguments are bad now?

Its one of those things that just-because-XI-did-it-doesn't-mean-XIV-could.

[Maero]

Dancer please and as healer, if for some very slim chance they pull off a Ninja like thing, no we do not need another dps, nor do we in 5.0.
Blu for tank would be cool also, after we get dancer

[Recaldy]

Something original would be nice.
Something not in FFXI would be nice.
Something using a gunblade would be nice.

I'd comment on the dancer idea but I'd rather not get banned from the forums. <_<

[Vivi_Bushido]

I never played XI but beast master and puppet master sound like boring jobs to me. They both sound like SMN clones, beast master being a melee version, and puppet master... Idk what that is tbh. I just picture this guy from Naruto.

[Belhi]

New DoL job: Janitor. Cleaning up Eorzea literally!

In all seriousness though I probably would be keen to something original. I like callbacks to older FF games but I think FF14 should add to the pool as well. More specifically I think some kind of tank that uses hammers could be interesting.

[DamianFatale]

A gun blade User, Chemist, Dancer, Blue Mage, Geomancer, and a puppet user are all cool ideas that come to mind. I would personally love a new gathering class as well, perhaps a Shepard that can sheer types of fur and wool? It would be cool if they could tie it with a personal farm plot or something.

[Jerbob]

I never played XI but beast master and puppet master sound like boring jobs to me. They both sound like SMN clones, beast master being a melee version, and puppet master... Idk what that is tbh. I just picture this guy from Naruto.

The pet jobs in XI actually have a decent level of interaction with their pets and so are very, very different from the monstrosity that is "SMN" in this game. You're right in that Beastmaster is generally quite close-combat viable, and it can call (or, in the past, charm) lots of different types of beast with their own strengths and weaknesses, and unique abilities controlled by the BST. Puppetmaster is a complex job with a hugely customisable and adaptable robot companion that is controlled by influencing a simple AI - sadly I don't think XIV is flexible enough to do it justice. At any rate, they are very far removed from being clones of the "SMN" in this game.

[NaesakiAshwell]

very different from the monstrosity that is "SMN" in this game.

I would have hoped after being gone for 220+ days that this whole stupid thing would have finally died about and people would shut up about the XIV Summoner not being a Summoner, I'm still hoping for way too much from the forum community it seems.
-edit- I'm fully aware forums are a place of feedback and discussion, I just think its utterly pointless to keep calling Summoner a monstrosity and the fact you all just blindly ignore the lore reasons why the interpretation is so different here as well, now I loved FF XI's summoner and as soon as I started playing this game I knew full well the Summoner here would be very different, but apparently that makes it a monstrosity?


As for the whole request thing, I'd love to see a mace or morning star wielding type job or job that fights with a Bo-Staff

I'd still love to see Dancer done in some form and Geomancer to be like a more offensive practitioner of Earth, Wind and Water magicks counterpart to White Mage.

[Jerbob]

I would have hoped after being gone for 220+ days that this whole stupid thing would have finally died about and people would shut up about the XIV Summoner not being a Summoner, I'm still hoping for way too much from the forum community it seems.

I'm sorry that we don't have a common view of what a Summoner job should be like, but that's a difference of opinion, not some dramatic fault with a whole community! Perhaps the fact that people are still discussing it 220 days later means that there might be some validity to it, for some people at least? Forums are intended to be places of discussion, and this forum is at least in part about feedback. If people are unhappy with some aspect of a job then this is precisely the right place to express that - particularly in a thread explicitly about jobs!

[Mature]

I didn't understand what the "Farmer" thing he was talking about.

Are we gonna have a Farmer class?

Tbh above all my choices i want Oracle.