Jobs I'd like to see in FFXIV.

[Velaethia]

I feel like if the next expansion gives us another 2 jobs it should be healer and rdps to even out the roles.

RDPS: Beast Master. Uses a whip and can "tame" various beasts in the world. If this would somehow be a "nightmare" to balance make the beasts purely cosmetic but the gameplay the same. Or sort of like summoner. You'd have like 3 stances. Agressive, Defensive, AOE.

Healer: Chemist. It's a theme that no other class touches on and I think would be best as a healer. It would be almost nothing like alchemy. It'd be abilities like any other class and you'd throw potions to heal and buff and debuff etc. A Jekle and Hyde ability might be neat.

Alternative RDPS: Puppet master. Would be similar to beast master Except wouldn't use any weapon they can attack with. Instead their weapon will be a control bar/strings. ALL of your abilities will be commanding your puppet/s. Having little to no abilities of your own. That is how it would be different from beast master but they're otherwise fairly similiar.

Alternative Healer: Time Mage. Turn back the clock with time magic reversing damage done. A buff you can put on yourself or allies that lasts a few seconds and all damage done during that time is reversed when it ends. Could come with some really neat animation. Mechanic wise it'd be similar to most healers but be very unique thematically.

Alternative RDPS: Gambler. Before you say "But that's basically Astro" and I'd say Gambler is to astro as Gunbreaker is to Machinist. Similar weapons some similiar concepts but different roles and would play radically different. Instead of cards by a side gimick like astro cards and dice will be your main thing and can alter the outcome of the battle. Abilities like increase crit chance, using cards to cast abilities, or dice to roll damage the enemy takes. (It's set is already in game!)

Alternative Healer: Merchant. Now this is kind of a ridiculous concept but it's been used in a few games and is mostly a support class. Obviously the class would be learned in Ul'duh. They'd use their own ability resource version of gil as their class niche. Has an ability similiar to ninja that makes enemies who die while effected by it drop more gil. Sacrifice your artificial gil to buy potions and other useful items from the aether. Big Pharma healing! (Your teammates will have to pay you back after a run

[Velaethia]

Last but NOT Least: NO MORE LIMITED JOBS. Y'all said you were thinking of adding more. Please no. I can't say no one wants them because I'm sure a few might but most folks in the US and UK don't like them and virtually everyone in japan hates them. Not only don't add new limited jobs but remaster blue mage into a real job. Have them start out at level 1 unlike other new jobs and their job quests involve them learning abilities from anyways. Some fun abilities is fine but you can easily make it a solid job. If you can't figure it out hire one of the many fans who have created wonderful concept workups for blue mage as a real job and not being OP or UP. The side version can stay I suppose cause deleting content is silly. Like bard's instruments. (Speaking of every job needs non combat fun things to do) But it's a side content thing you can do if you want with blue mage (prob dif job crystal for real versus limited). I'd prefer blue mage be a tank but I'm sure many want it as magic dps. I honestly don't care I just want one of my favourite final fantasy jobs to actually be usable in serious content in FFXIV my favourite final fantasy game.

[kelevra13]

Last but NOT Least: NO MORE LIMITED JOBS.

I agree. If ever they do make one of these jobs and the ones I personally like to see, I do hope they won't be limited jobs.

[Jkap_Goat]

I like limited jobs, and also they mentioned Beastmaster as one of the limited jobs at Las Vegas fan fest

[Jkap_Goat]

oh yeah and they mentioned Puppet master too as another limited job

[MirronTulaxia]

Beastmaster whips aren’t long enough to be a RDPS. They’re long melee weapons.

And Blue Mage as a normal job doesn’t work really. Limited jobs in general are a sound way to add otherwise difficult to fit jobs.

Oh, and it’ll likely be Healer and Caster. Caster is the same as RDPS and Healer in terms of number minus limited jobs, and they already don’t count limited. We also haven’t ever gone back to back in terms of job additions.

Tank/RDPS/Healer (HW) -> MDPS/CDPS (SB) -> Tank/RDPS (ShB)

Taking that pattern into account, limited jobs not counting towards counts, and three roles being lower than Tank/MDPS but two of them weren’t in ShB, it just adds up.

[kelevra13]

oh yeah and they mentioned Puppet master too as another limited job

Yeah. I'm looking forward to this one. I just really wish it wouldn't be limited, but alas, not my call to make XD. I'd still play it then get too lazy to max it since it can't join instances without having a premade party first. Just like what happened to my BLU XD.

[RagingStallion]

No thanks the more jobs they develop the less time they have to create new dungeons. If we get another healer and tank they're going to only make one dungeon every other patch because of having to balance the dungeon.

[Velaethia]

No thanks the more jobs they develop the less time they have to create new dungeons. If we get another healer and tank they're going to only make one dungeon every other patch because of having to balance the dungeon.

They already said that they are going to be adding jobs in every expansion for the foreseeable future.

I like limited jobs, and also they mentioned Beastmaster as one of the limited jobs at Las Vegas fan fest

You are an extreme minority. Only a very small group of players and the game director seems to like them.

[MirronTulaxia]

They already said that they are going to be adding jobs in every expansion for the foreseeable future.



You are an extreme minority. Only a very small group of players and the game director seems to like them.

I like them too. And the game already includes things that are for a relative minority, that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Everything can't be loved by every player, it isn't realistic.