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[MirronTulaxia]

I'm more arguing that because you see theoretical gaps that the developer team does not really. So far your argument for it is.. really weak. Red Mage barely uses Earth, and uses less Wind spells than White Mage did in Stormblood. There isn't any indicator that they were trying to give a "techy" job to Tanks either. After all I can easily point at the VIII theme that Shadowbringers has (even if it's mostly just Eden) and argue that as a possible inspiration. Or any number of other possible answers.

Long story short, these "gaps" you're seeing aren't really ones they probably see. If they are they clearly aren't in any rush to fill them. And unless you're able to actually provide evidence that the team is concerned about giving tech jobs or elementally themed jobs or whatever then it seems unlikely to be an important matter. Especially when you consider all jobs use aether so specific elemental representation probably isn't on the forefront of their concerns.

[Seraphor]

I'm more arguing that because you see theoretical gaps that the developer team does not really. So far your argument for it is.. really weak. Red Mage barely uses Earth, and uses less Wind spells than White Mage did in Stormblood. There isn't any indicator that they were trying to give a "techy" job to Tanks either. After all I can easily point at the VIII theme that Shadowbringers has (even if it's mostly just Eden) and argue that as a possible inspiration. Or any number of other possible answers.

Long story short, these "gaps" you're seeing aren't really ones they probably see. If they are they clearly aren't in any rush to fill them. And unless you're able to actually provide evidence that the team is concerned about giving tech jobs or elementally themed jobs or whatever then it seems unlikely to be an important matter. Especially when you consider all jobs use aether so specific elemental representation probably isn't on the forefront of their concerns.

I'm merely saying they are potential gaps.
There are multiple gaps that could be filled with various jobs, Geomancer is one of those.

[MirronTulaxia]

I'm merely saying they are potential gaps.
There are multiple gaps that could be filled with various jobs, Geomancer is one of those.

Sure, but again they aren't gaps that they've shown any inclination to fill. I'm sure I could come up with a hundred hypothetical gaps of things they haven't filled yet (tank without a bladed weapon, other jobs using a main weapon and off hand in the other roles, other Mending/Scouting MDPS, so on and so forth), but most of these aren't gaps that they probably care about. With zero evidence that actually supports it being a thing there isn't any reason to see it as a concern. This, again, isn't saying it won't happen, but it's unlikely to be for "filling gaps", because, again, they don't seem to be doing that to begin with.

[Seraphor]

Sure, but again they aren't gaps that they've shown any inclination to fill.

And this is a tautologous argument.
Any gaps will be as of yet unfilled, because they are currently gaps. That doesn't mean they never will be.

They do not release new jobs where that jobs design or mechanics already exist, they don't release jobs that are deemed too similar to other existing jobs, therefore all new jobs are necessarily 'filling gaps'. The opposite of 'filling a gap' would be replicating something that already exists, which they don't do.