Do we really NEED new jobs?

[AncientCrystal]

I mean, you can make an argument that this game doesn't need new jobs, rather just build on the jobs that are already here. I mean, everybody wants a new Tank and Healer but they would have to really add a new gameplay experience that the jobs we have now don't bring. Sometimes DPS jobs feel samey...

[Derio]

I don't really care if they don't add new jobs to the game this next expansion. However if they do release new jobs. It better be a tank and healer and not 2 dps

[Hakuro89]

Sounds to me like you want a whole new role, not another job.

[Reinha]

everybody wants a new Tank and Healer but they would have to really add a new gameplay experience that the jobs we have now don't bring.

Yeah, that's the point.

[dejiko_san]

The people who like to level new jobs are probably at 70 across the board by now. I'm sure they would like new jobs to level.

[ManuelBravo]

I would I'm 70 across the board. Would love to see a pet job, blu mage, dnc, rune, hell I'll even take necromancer. I wish SE would do something along the lines of opposite jobs like DRK. Power of darkness, void, ect.

[Vaer]

New jobs bring in players though. SAM and RDM probably brought in a significant amount of new players so there's that. I feel like aesthetics is a big deal (or the cash shop wouldn't exist). They're supposed to bring a new gameplay experience (the devs said it themselves at one of the fanfests) but confined to their role. They sort of do the same thing (the role), but get there in a slightly different way (job mechanics).

If you took out the jobs and sometimes races an expansion would be even closer to a giant numbered patch TBH. More than it already is anyway.

[Dzian]

Sometimes DPS jobs feel samey...

Because they generally are. This obsession with balance generally means you can't really give any job anything unique. And it's why so much stuff has been dumbed down and simplified.

Mobs can't be slept for example because that would practically make blm a mandatory job within a party.
Stuns and silences are never used even when practically every job has them now. Can't heavy or kite mobs. Pacification is useless. So are binds. Anything a job has that another job doesn't. Such as sleep or bind.. is inevitably just a wasted ability that will never see use..

Then they all feel the same because they are the same... this is also why the devs struggle to make jobs different. You have jobs like blm and Sam that are supposed to be selfish dps. Yet they absolutely cannot stand out in raw damage because the non selfish jobs have to do comparable damage even if they offer bucket loads of utility to a party..

And thus yeah it's all the same the flashes and sparkles might vary a bit but nothing else changes

[SendohJin]

there was never a NEED for new jobs past PLD WAR MNK DRG BLM BRD SCH WHM. but people want them and we should get them.

even if the differences are minor, having a little variety in terms of skills and appearance with an extra XP bar for people to level is a good thing.

[Nidhogrr]

Yeah.

I think we need new jobs.

New experience alwways be welcomed