Jobs I'd like to see in FFXIV.

[Cyreil]

I don't understand the BLU hate.

It's always been a very gimmicky busted job in the RPG versions, which doesn't really fit in an mmo setting. The class was completely busted in XI and they never got around to toning it down. It a strict trinity setting of Tank/Healer/DPS, blue mage doesn't really fit in, in my opinion. It's never going to be the odd, busted and wonky mage you want it to be from old FF titles, at least not running "real" content.

No matter how the class was implemented it was going to make a certain number of people unhappy.

That's exactly why people want it implemented like that. They want the broken overpowered skills to be used in all current content. They want the job to be able to que up as any role.

As for me, I want a DPS Time Mage.

[Lihtleita]

give us the musketeer guild you cowards

[Valic]

Chemist or Time Mage

Chemist a healer: Combined various effects of skills together to make more potent skills like a heal over time + a burst heal to create a burst heal that gives heal over time. A shield + a heal, etc etc and have stock of these items to use on hand. Sort've a dedication job where when you put in enough time amid the fight, the payoff makes up for more than enough of it.

Time Mage as a healer: Something akin to freezing your health bar and halting things to a stop 100%. Being able to create afterimages of characters that take aggro instead and things of that nature.

[Morningstar1337]

I think the issue with jobs like Pupettmaster and Beastmaster that they either have a collectables gimmick (consider how many of the minion pool are puppets) or could more easily be tied to one, thus not having a complete collection would be detrimental to clearing content in a normal DF environment, so as a result they would have to be Limited Jobs.

Granted Puppetmaster could theory work without using existing minions, but it would prolly be closer to MCH minus the guns.

Granted I'm of the seemingly rare opinion that the devs shouldn't abandon the limited job concept but focus on improving it and that if they were to be made into normal jobs, that they would inevitably start 20 levels below the cap as per dev and player convenience.

Of course this is off topic, so I give a more earnest answer for unlimited jobs.

I want to see a Rune Fencer/Mystic Knight/Magic Knight. a Swordsman that uses the En spells that exist in the game to enchant his weapons and execute attacks.

I want to see a Job that focuses on Symbols and runic powers, preferring drawing and drawing from the sigils associated with the Twelve to grant boons to the party and banes on the enemies (AKA a support class)

I want to see a Job that uses Hammers.

[dustdjinn]

I don't know why everyone is sleeping on Geomancer but they are my favorite class! I would die of happiness plus there have been several hints in game for them.

[MirronTulaxia]

I don't know why everyone is sleeping on Geomancer but they are my favorite class! I would die of happiness plus there have been several hints in game for them.

Geomancer is probably easily the most talked about job, and as it fits both Caster and Healer it's got good odds for popping up next expansion. I wouldn't be surprised if we see it show up as the first reveal honestly.

[BasicBlake]

I don't know why everyone is sleeping on Geomancer but they are my favorite class! I would die of happiness plus there have been several hints in game for them.

I dunno about slept on. The Geomancer community is very very vocal both for caster and as healer. It’s also has the most buildup of any class in the game at this point.

[MirronTulaxia]

I'm excited for it. In general new DoM excite me, they have the lore I like best, but I like Geomancer a lot in classic FF. I also try to subject the subject matter though getting info on it is dicey at best most of the time beyond the very Westernized version.

[BasicBlake]

I'm excited for it. In general new DoM excite me, they have the lore I like best, but I like Geomancer a lot in classic FF. I also try to subject the subject matter though getting info on it is dicey at best most of the time beyond the very Westernized version.

I really hope they stick with the purification and spirits theme. Whatever role it ends up being.

[MirronTulaxia]

I really hope they stick with the purification and spirits theme. Whatever role it ends up being.

It's really hard to tell what they'll do with them. I feel like there are a lot of ways they can go, and they've kind of set up Kyokuho to go sideways from expectations with his whole "lost knowledge of the past/trying to mix in other stuff to make up for it" deal. I wonder if they'll have a pet aspect, or something resembling one. They certainly seem to lean more towards Onmyoudou stuff so I could see it.

As for purification I'm not sure quite how they could represent that. Maybe Dispel?