New tank ideas (NOT BLU)

[Mimilu]

I had been thinking about a pet-tank idea where the pet is your mitigation.
Like, the pet is an aura/barrier that while the tank is in tank-stance absorbs some of the damage on on the user and the emnity combo heals your pet a little based on your damage so you can maintain your pet-shield.
The DPS-stance could then increase the pet's damage instead of the user's.
This could work with something like a Beastmaster tank where instead of summoning and/or controlling animals, you are channeling animal spirits.

[Aurturia]

What if it was a shield only class? Like some sort of Captain America build.

[Linx0r]

Blue mage is one of the most iconics jobs of the series though, it's only natural.

Lol I know that but you missed my point. SE is looking for a new class to add to the series and if that class is a tank, I wonder what kind of ideas there are out there. I personally want a giant fan/war fan user like Temari or Madara from Naruto. It’s Japanese themed and would fit into the SB lore

[Tanathya]

Lol I know that but you missed my point. SE is looking for a new class to add to the series and if that class is a tank, I wonder what kind of ideas there are out there. I personally want a giant fan/war fan user like Temari or Madara from Naruto. It’s Japanese themed and would fit into the SB lore

I'm just saying it's only natural people want to see BLU. I didn't know SE was looking for suggestions of something in particular either.

[JarjakGempocket]

How about with Beast Master you warg into your Beast and control them that way. Your tank stance is you switching between the beast and yourself.

[Seraphor]

Well any new classes aren't going to be introduced in Stormblood, they'll be in 5.0, so being 'Japanese themed' doesn't mean anything.

And frankly I think a fan wielding tank sounds rather strange and much less likely to be a tank.
Fan users have typically been dancers or mages.
There's precedence for blue mage being a tank.

[Savagelf]

let say you kick a animal you have that animal attack you back. let say you kick a puppet that puppet won't anything to you.
puppetmaster is better Job to focus on Migrations tanks where beastmaster be dps short/medium range dps with focus relationship between pets master as well element of taming and find rare pets is best choice for beastmaster

my view in mmorpg is fantasy and reality are linked when one design video games you want a lot element of reality to play in

I rather not give PETE an excuse tried get FFXIV in trouble

[ValentineSnow]

FFXIV's main problem isn't jobs as they have no problem turning a job that is originally a certain role and turning them into another role, same thing happened with DRK. Their problem lies in the weapon pool. The series has a TON of jobs but there's like 6 of them that uses swords, another 6 (hyperbole) that uses staves and like 3 that uses guns.

Just because they haven't done it yet doesn't mean they can't reuse weapons. Say they wanted to add spellblade(SPB), what's stopping them from using PLD swords? let's say they make it a STR based dps. Just throw a SPB tag onto all PLD swords... done. As long as it's a separate job it can have an entirely different ability set from PLD and GLA (assuming GLA even still exists come 5.0). Now let's say they want to make it an INT based dps that uses swords, add the SPB tag onto all RDM swords... done again! Say, just for arguments sake, they wanted to make it a healer. They'd have to create a new line of swords with MND as the main attribute, maybe degens or scimitars. But then any new sword-based healers they add could also just be added onto this new sword.

Essentially, they just need to make a variant of each weapon type for every main attribute and then they could make any job using any weapon and just tag the new job on the old weapon. Any new book healer? goes on the codex. Any new book dps? goes on the grimoire. New book tank/physical dps...? New book type, maybe tome?

The only issue here is the shield. Not every sword dps should have to or even be able to use a shield. They'd have to find a way to make single handed swords gain the full attributes that are split between sword and shield while also disabling the use of the shield. Maybe all new STR sword dps could have a trait called doublehand that prevents the equipping of a shield while doubling STR and VIT on equipment in the main hand slot.

[Baylon]

I would like to see a tank job that uses a halberd kind of based off the Swiss guard. I know Dragons are the main trademark polearm job but troops equipped wit halberds have been shown to be elite bodyguards in games and real life. No idea if any other FF game has done that before.

[Linx0r]

I'm just saying it's only natural people want to see BLU. I didn't know SE was looking for suggestions of something in particular either.

I forget where I saw it but I know that there was talk or even an article re a new class not yet in the series. I will try to source it