Realistic 5.0 Jobs

[NorthernLadMSP]

100% hoping for BLU tank and DNC healer. Chemist could be interesting too, but only if they don't relay on some dumb "you have to keep potions in your inventory" gimmick.

[Zearin]

Something like an Iron Knight for a tank maybe.
Based on Iron Man, the idea is you steal a prototype Garlean Magitek armor and as a tank can use missiles and wrist mounted blades to damage and draw threat. The armor's natural toughness can be augmented further by an energy shield. Gears are known as modules instead for tge armor as you improve it.

[Soge01]

Onion Knight. Lalafell should be made the quest givers and the job class should be a tank or DPS...or both. I just want to be an Onion Knight and not just the armor so I can jab people with my tiny sword and destroy them with the meteor spell. ...I've clearly played too much Dissidia in the past, but still...! ;3;

[Lium]

Not really we are the warriors of light for a reason lol. But necromancer has appeared at least once as a playable job but it’s definitely not popular compared to the other jobs...

Dark Knights aren't exactly holy warriors. In fact, they are the opposite of Paladins. "Yet even the holiest of men succumb to dark temptations." That's from this website. And yet, they can be the Warrior of Light.

So, yeah. Give me some sort of dark caster any day of the week. Like a dark scholar or something.

[Soge01]

^
How about Edda's version of Necromancer...?

[Lium]

That, or Arya from the Red Mage job story.

[Mahrze]

Dark Knights aren't exactly holy warriors. In fact, they are the opposite of Paladins. "Yet even the holiest of men succumb to dark temptations." That's from this website. And yet, they can be the Warrior of Light.

So, yeah. Give me some sort of dark caster any day of the week. Like a dark scholar or something.

You'd need to play the DRK storyline to understand why the WOL is an exception.

[Jonnycbad]

We got a melee dps and a magic caster dps in storm blood. Very high chance we will get a tank and a healer before we get another dps, of which if we do, it should be a ranged physical dps (like Bard or Machinist).

That said, tank is unknown, healer could be Geomancer, ranged physical dps could be a Dancer/Dirvish using Chakrams and thrown weapons. I can't imagine them adding another dps though in 5.0 considering how there's 3 healers, 3 ranks, but like 10 dps jobs.

[Keridwyn]

My only problem with them bringing in GEO as a healer is I think it would be too thematically similar to WHM since FFXIV went ahead and made WHM the 'guardians of elemental balance'. If they could somehow rework that though yeah I'd love to see GEO. Until then...

Dancer for next healer
Blue Mage for next tank

[LineageRazor]

We got a melee dps and a magic caster dps in storm blood. Very high chance we will get a tank and a healer before we get another dps, of which if we do, it should be a ranged physical dps (like Bard or Machinist).

That said, tank is unknown, healer could be Geomancer, ranged physical dps could be a Dancer/Dirvish using Chakrams and thrown weapons. I can't imagine them adding another dps though in 5.0 considering how there's 3 healers, 3 ranks, but like 10 dps jobs.

Well, to look at it another way... There's three healers, three tanks, three ranged magic DPS, four melee physical DPS, and two ranged physical DPS. By that light, our assortment of jobs is pretty balanced; we'd be due for another ranged physical, but after that we could get anything except another melee physical and still keep that balance. While it's true that the latter three categories are pretty much all unified in having a focus in making the bad thing dead, each group does have a distinct feel that's strong enough to justify considering it a separate category. SE seems to agree, given the changes they made to the LB meter: Going in with a party that doesn't properly subdivide the DPS into two ranged and two melee has as serious an impact on the LB bar as going in with a duplicate job. (Something, ironically, "NO DUPES" parties rarely seem to take into consideration!)

All that said, I prefer healing and taking jobs to DPS jobs, and would prefer to see them get some new jobs over any of the three DPS categories! I do acknowledge that to be a matter of personal taste, however.