Hinting at New Jobs? [ Small Spoilers for Patch 5.3 ]

[Ilenya]

I think y'all are digging too deep into something that isn't there. What Riki wants to do is already covered by existing jobs, and bosses are just that; bosses. Outliers.

I don't think this is really a hint at a new combat job at all.

Talk to other Scions and say that again.

Alisaie: A Warrior who fights with potions...it's certainly innovative. I prefer a blade myself, but to each their own.

[SomeRandomHuman]

I mean I could see it being the dps counterpart to warrior kinda like a whm/blm thing?

White and Black Mages are entirely different things.

White Mages, by this game's lore, use the power of the elementals to weave aether in ways to manifest it in a curative form to heal and/or defend themselves.

Black Mages, by this game's lore, make aether itself bend to their will to decimate any that oppose them.

And before you try to say "but they both involve aether" everything in this game manipulates aether to some degree since aether is the essence of life itself in this game.

As for what they could seperate to make berserker a dps... not much. Warrior was always about being in the fray and doing wild beastial attacks to mow through hordes of enemies. I would love to see a pure raging club/hammer maniac but I just dunno how'd they go about making it different from warrior.

[Amnmaat]

If Gunbreaker can work even though we have Paladin, so can Berserker.
I would have believed that Berserker is impossible, but after Gunbreaker? Nope, anything is possible now.

[Roda]

White and Black Mages are entirely different things.

White Mages, by this game's lore, use the power of the elementals to weave aether in ways to manifest it in a curative form to heal and/or defend themselves.

Black Mages, by this game's lore, make aether itself bend to their will to decimate any that oppose them.

And before you try to say "but they both involve aether" everything in this game manipulates aether to some degree since aether is the essence of life itself in this game.

As for what they could seperate to make berserker a dps... not much. Warrior was always about being in the fray and doing wild beastial attacks to mow through hordes of enemies. I would love to see a pure raging club/hammer maniac but I just dunno how'd they go about making it different from warrior.

I mean they both drain the land of aether and are ultimately very dangerous for the environment. (that's why you have to get permission from the elementals to be a whm), on top of that they could be forms of ANGER manipuation from opposing factions like whm/blm.

[CaptainLagbeard]

All I know is give me Berserker job. Yes even if we have war.
But for the love of hydaelyn give them a hammer weapon, we have enough swords.

Berserker has never been a really fleshed out class, and what little does exist there, it's effectively been worked into Warrior and it is the Berserker class in everything except name...


But I do agree that more blunt weapons are needed.


Viking Class with Warhammers when.

[Ilenya]

Berserker has never been a really fleshed out class, and what little does exist there, it's effectively been worked into Warrior and it is the Berserker class in everything except name...


But I do agree that more blunt weapons are needed.


Viking Class with Warhammers when.

Heck, Vikings in FFIII were already designated tanks.

[Amnmaat]

You just have to re-imagine Berserker to go around Warrior. Just giving it a different weapon from Warrior like a hammer would achieve that.

[Iscah]

Talk to other Scions and say that again.

Alisaie: A Warrior who fights with potions...it's certainly innovative. I prefer a blade myself, but to each their own.

Ah yeah, I knew there was something more to my impression at the time than just "she talked about wanting to help people"...

[Allegor]

Necromancers doesn't have to be evil. In guild wars necromancers are essentially guides for the dead with knowledge of curses and diseases, so to say a necromancer in FFXIV could be something similar to conjurer and them asking the elements for power where the necromancer could be communing with the dead for assistance.

The closest XIV equivalent I can think of a necromancer is....a thaumaturge. They already work with funeral rites and questionable-yet-not-inherently-evil magic using blood and void, plus there is an interesting abundance of zombies in Thanalan. That said, it still sounds a bit of a stretch

Sadly the Warrior job we have already does what this guy does. He's just an amped up dude that seems to have given into his inner beast. If you're unfamiliar that's what drives the Beast Gauge and its actions entirely. You'll notice his eyes look like the players when you use Inner Release.

Yeah, I'm not familiar with any other FF game but berserker sounds eerily similar to WAR with the whole controlling the inner beast/rage and me smash going on. That said, I'd love a "heavy armor powerhouse" type DPS, it could share gear with DRG.

[SomeRandomHuman]

Yeah, I'm not familiar with any other FF game but berserker sounds eerily similar to WAR with the whole controlling the inner beast/rage and me smash going on. That said, I'd love a "heavy armor powerhouse" type DPS, it could share gear with DRG.

Warriors are from a mountain settlement and their battle style of controlling their inner beast to devastate all opposition. It was not uncommon for people to lose control and succumb entirely to their inner beast which would send that person off into an uncontrollable stampede of destruction until they are ether beaten or the world around them is naught but dust and rubble.

I mean, you couldn't make classic berserker any more apparent from that basic lore from the job NPC Curious George.