When will we hear about the next expansion?

[Bright-Flower]

BLU hinted at NA. They announced no jobs at the NA fests previously. He just wore the shirts. Batman for DRK and Scarlet Witch for RDM. The jobs were confirmed at the EU fest where he wore James Bond and Spider-Man to hit at MCH and SAM. Which were confirmed in EU fest, with AST thrown in with no warning at all.

Expect no job announcement at NA, just a T-Shirt hint. Whichever seems to be less of a stretch first. Although with the leaks who knows what they'll do if the leaks are true.

If the leak is true and there are three jobs, including blue mage possibly before 5.0, I would expect it to be announced at NA fanfest. I mean they would need to give it some hype before 4.5 drops, IF the leak is true.

If it's not and there's just two 5.0 jobs coming then yeah this is probably the pattern they'll go for.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If the leak is true and there are three jobs, including blue mage possibly before 5.0, I would expect it to be announced at NA fanfest. I mean they would need to give it some hype before 4.5 drops, IF the leak is true.

If it's not and there's just two 5.0 jobs coming then yeah this is probably the pattern they'll go for.

They didnt announce one at the na fanfest for 3.0, which had 3 jobs.

[Bright-Flower]

They didnt announce one at the na fanfest for 3.0, which had 3 jobs.

If the leak is true though, that means the NA fanfest is the only on that will be early enough to announce blue mage before 4.5. Though again that's still assuming the leak is true and that blu is coming and coming before 5.0. With HW all three jobs were coming in 3.0. Of course it's possible that BLU could get announced independently of fanfest in a 4.5 centered live letter or something, but IF the leak is true and blu is coming before 5.0 I'd be surprised if they don't announce it at fanfest.

That's all hinging on the leak being true though, and if I recall correctly it said blu was slated to be revealed at E3 which didn't happen, meaning either it was delayed or the leak was just false to begin with.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

If the leak is true though, that means the NA fanfest is the only on that will be early enough to announce blue mage before 4.5. Though again that's still assuming the leak is true and that blu is coming and coming before 5.0. With HW all three jobs were coming in 3.0. Of course it's possible that BLU could get announced independently of fanfest in a 4.5 centered live letter or something, but IF the leak is true and blu is coming before 5.0 I'd be surprised if they don't announce it at fanfest.

That's all hinging on the leak being true though, and if I recall correctly it said blu was slated to be revealed at E3 which didn't happen, meaning either it was delayed or the leak was just false to begin with.

They have said they wont ever release a job between expansion again. so the leak would go against that, which leads me to believe its false.

Unless they release it as not an actual job, but part of eureka, which i could see since they didnt think blu would work as a standard job in this game.

[Lexi]

They have said they wont ever release a job between expansion again. so the leak would go against that, which leads me to believe its false.

Unless they release it as not an actual job, but part of eureka, which i could see since they didnt think blu would work as a standard job in this game.

I wondered how they would do blu for ffxiv.

[Aerlana]

I remember Yoshida saying he did want bluemage, but not with "classic" job. i cant find where i did read it sorry.
This was a good news, due to the fact bluemage is really special. So was thinking to a content specifically think for it.

In this case, it wouldnt even be a break of the "wont do a new job out of expansion" because it would be more a "content" than a job.

on the other side. The leak said "before 5.0" and 4.5 gets close (2-3 month now) and a content not announced yet would be really surprising (good one. . . Even if i fear it will be another bad made content but... other matter ^^" )

[Jonnycbad]

They have said they wont ever release a job between expansion again. so the leak would go against that, which leads me to believe its false.

He never said "won't ever" he said:

Yoshida: You may have heard it in the panel but the development team is kind of hesitant on adding jobs like this so I’m kind of torn. Adding a job in a patch update is actually quite an extensive task and a pretty big endeavor but at the same time we also understand that the players were really excited and happy about a job being introduced in a patch so we would love to consider it positively but at this point we’re not able to say.

That sounds like it's unlikely but still definitely possible. Also, that was in 2015, I'm sure they've improved their capabilities since then.

[Powercow]

That sounds like it's unlikely but still definitely possible. Also, that was in 2015, I'm sure they've improved their capabilities since then.

More importantly, FFXIV wants to keep players playing during the dry spell in content before an expansion's launch. I know a lot of people put FFXIV on pause during HW before SB launched because there wasn't really anything new to do for like, 6 months. A new job could help to tide people over until the new expansion comes out, plus if the job is weird/complex it'll be a good way to see how the community uses it and make changes needed.

I mean, MCH was awkward as all hell when it first came out, imagine if it had a couple months at the end of ARR for people to point out all the broken crap so it's not terrible for HW launch.

[Tsumdere]

Wasn't NIN a balancing nightmare just because it was released right in the middle of the raid tier? Omegascape is over now, so there is a lot less pressure to fix it ASAP if it has glaring issues and gives people something to do.

If BLU is a Eureka thing... SE has a big storm coming.

[Bright-Flower]

Wasn't NIN a balancing nightmare just because it was released right in the middle of the raid tier? Omegascape is over now, so there is a lot less pressure to fix it ASAP if it has glaring issues and gives people something to do.

If BLU is a Eureka thing... SE has a big storm coming.

Imagine if you had to unlock blue mage....by completing the Eureka storyline!