What jobs are we hoping to see in the next expansion?

[EdwinLi]

You mean Thancred in the trailer?

Yep, Thancred is using the new Gunblade Job which we can see that the Gunblade is designed to be based on Squall's Gunblade design.

He is also confirmed to be a NPC for the Trust System with Y'shtola being the 2nd confirmed NPC. There are still more NPCs for Trust system but we don't know who they are nor how we will obtained these NPCs.

So far we can assume Thancred and Y'shtola are the story obtained Tank and Healer Trust NPCs we get from 5.0 MSQ while there may be some other NPCs we may need to complete certain tasks to obtain.

We know Trust System is designed to help players and new players progress through MSQ content so we may have some Trust NPCs for 2.0 and 3.0 contents as well.

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On topic:

Gun Mage DPS Job will also work as well for me.

Machinist is the Engineer Gun Job after all but for Gun Mage I hope to see something more magic themed.

[Nedkel]

I wish for another tank to play with, but everyone know it will be dps right. :P

[ShadowSolaris7]

What I want to see? Well for first, no DPS jobs we have enough of those for the time being, maybe add DPS again for 6.0 or something.

Second, add Gunblade job as a tank and Dancer as a healer that's it.

[Dreamsoap]

I'm really just holding out for Gunblade. Personally I don't really care what roles and classes are added beyond this point, just that they're more interesting/ unique ones since we've got the very standard mmo classes already. Only reason I even picked up AST is because it's rare to see anything like it in a lot of games I've played.

[Shougun]

Blue Mage... ah..haha..hahaha okay before someone throws a tomato at me lol, for real:

I'd really like to see a few things in the future, first is a non-standard weapon (I like swords, but that's obviously standard weapon). Something less expected to be honest a bit like Astrologian in that it's very a "oh, that's different" but in this scenario I'd like it to be a weapon used for damage. AST just sort of gets to hold theirs, maybe shake it sometimes when they get too many ewers.

Not requiring anything specific but an example may be a tank mage with two floating shields (doesn't hold them, shield being used loosely since like a titan weapon would be giant rock walls lol - and of course they use the shields as huge bludgeons). Or a floating orbs used a bit like kael'thas in wc3 / wow (picture that floating thing red mage has, except more of them, and they're now weapons, akin to noctis and swords).

I know that's not really describing a job much but lol, something I'd like to see.

Now the second thing is I'd like to see a transforming job, obviously one may think of Druid, or maybe Demon Hunter, from WoW but not just that and personally preferably more like Terra Branford (esper), Vincent (chaos transformations), or the main protagonist in Shadow Hearts series via the Harmonixer skill. Especially if the last one (Harmonixer) then lean heavily into that FFXI Blue Mage lore nostalgia please .

[EdwinLi]

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I am more of a gameplay person.

It is why Gun Mage have always interests me as one of the unique Jobs a RPG can make.

Mages have always the standard of using staff, sword, or anything out of the ordinary as their focus for magic (such as a Orb, gems, spheres, Cards, and etc) but very few have tried to make a Mage that focus on the use of Guns.

I know FFX-2 made a Gun Mage but that was just a reskin Blue Mage for that game.

[Shougun]

I am more of a gameplay person.

It is why Gun Mage have always interests me as one of the unique Jobs a RPG can make.

Mages have always the standard of using staff, sword, or anything out of the ordinary as their focus for magic (such as a Orb, gems, and etc) but very few have tried to make a Mage that focus on the use of Guns.

I know FFX-2 made a Gun Mage but that was just a reskin Blue Mage for that game.

I'm not against anything you said but I'm just confused on how it related to me and gameplay lol.

Was it the shield tank mage that uses giant bludgeons? Or the orbs?

[EdwinLi]

I'm not against anything you said but I'm just confused on how it related to me and gameplay lol.

Was it the shield tank mage that uses giant bludgeons? Or the orbs?

You're talking about Unique weapons users for Jobs which will lead right into their unique gameplay to utilize their weapons. You can't utilize unique weapons for Jobs without also considering the utilization of their gameplay to go with it.

[Metalwrath]

I'd think adding Gunblader as a tank obviously won't solve the shortage, because it's a role that still entails responsibility and people don't want to take it... BUT like someone mentioned, the job aesthetics and playstyle might attract a portion of the playerbase to bite the bullet and assign to the role.

Aye alot of people i know are still dealing with bad tanks on a regaular basis. 9/10 times its a dark knight because the kind of players it attracts.
With a gunblade tank job you can guarantee it wil be 10 times worse.

[Shougun]

You're talking about Unique weapons users for Jobs which will lead right into their unique gameplay to utilize their weapons. You can't utilize unique weapons for Jobs without also considering the utilization of their gameplay to go with it.

Oh lol, I wasn't getting that from the response sorry. To me MCH already feels magical ish but I'm sure you could greatly improve that aspect in a different job, so I guess you could do a lot more lol.

Wonder if you could get a neat gatling gun mage, some big honking chain gun like thing. XD... Not sure, obviously it probably shouldn't be just another pistol though. You were suggesting dual hand guns before right? I've read the first few pages but I haven't read the whole thread.

As for my idea of unique weapon with the dual shield mage tank, well that'd be one of the heavier hitting tanks with shield (not a giant hp pool) mechanics obviously . I'm imaging a sort of lock and loading of each shield too, loading it with magical potential and then utilizing it (such that you might see a scene where they smash one shield down onto an area starting to pump out minor quakes (bit geomancer like) but their shield blocking potential goes down, then they summon to them smashing the enemy in front, and again with both shields, where in they cast a spell that prepares them for a tank buster). Other weird thing could be an in combat mount, at the cost of damage and shield potential they ride one of their shields (for a short while, removing standard movement debuffs).

I mean it's fairly open concept, I just thought a dual wielding greatshield mage would be fairly unique.

As for the orbs to be honest it could just as well be utilized like a gun mage lol, I didn't really have a thought for their mechanics besides the concept of "energy containers" is your weapon. Magical chakrams sort of. More for the greatshield concept than the later but I always thought magical energy as a base level weapon a sort of neat concept.