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

[MirronTulaxia]

Eh, again to me it all reads a lot more metaphorical. I suppose I misremembered it as I recalled the "but not with a sword" part, but for the most part to me it all reads still as "you don't need to be on the frontlines to help save the world", which I think is a very valid stance to teach to a kid.

[Snapdragyn]

Just remember how many hints of Geomancer were in the last xpac, though. Fought some in multiple dungeons, had a job quest line that worked alongside one... then nothing.

Until we see a Scion taking up a new weapon, I'm afraid it's all just wishful thinking.

/em still wants his battle bells.

[Ilenya]

I stand by the fact that Geomancer as written would just be a WHM clone, at least as it was in SB.

[Cled-cat]

I stand by the fact that Geomancer as written would just be a WHM clone, at least as it was in SB.

Not really, just because they shared nature-based elements that doesn’t mean they’d be a clone at all. Geomancers have used Terrain and other special location based abilities in previous FF titles, so there would be plenty of room for them to shine in their own unique way if they wanted to go down that route. That’s like saying Red Mage is just a hybrid clone of WHM and BLM both, which while true in some aspects it is anything but in how it plays. Geomancer’s in 14 are referenced repeatedly as being able to ward away and banish evil, and use defensive seals and barriers to do this. Conjury has no such parallel to that. So saying that it’ll just be a clone of WHM (or even old WHM) is weak at best, especially given how they have NO nature spells anymore at high level, which signals they’re probably thinking of stepping aside for Geomancer to fill that role as it’s the best job to do so.

[StriderShinryu]

It definitely felt like a chemist healer job hard sell to me.. and while I doubt I'd be into the job, she was adorable enough that I'd want to see it just to see more of her in the game.

[Ilenya]

Not really, just because they shared nature-based elements that doesn’t mean they’d be a clone at all.

I realize I said this wrong. GEO would be an AST clone with some WHM added in, because that was how the AST quests portrayed it. I am not saying they could do more for it, but as of the end of SB (Obviously changes in ShB took away the element spells from WHM) it felt like GEO would bring nothing new to the table as it had been shown.

[Kewitt]

Ink mage new job confirmed.

[Cled-cat]

I realize I said this wrong. GEO would be an AST clone with some WHM added in, because that was how the AST quests portrayed it. I am not saying they could do more for it, but as of the end of SB (Obviously changes in ShB took away the element spells from WHM) it felt like GEO would bring nothing new to the table as it had been shown.

I mean, what have they shown that makes you see it as an AST clone? Besides the dialogue saying “Geomancy focuses on the Star below” any sort of comparison to AST is pretty tenuous. Geomancers use elemental sells to banish evil and create wards, using bells and the planet itself to fight. Astrologists use Arcana, constellations and aether from space, so they’re anything but clones.

[BasicBlake]

Just remember how many hints of Geomancer were in the last xpac, though. Fought some in multiple dungeons, had a job quest line that worked alongside one... then nothing.

Until we see a Scion taking up a new weapon, I'm afraid it's all just wishful thinking.

/em still wants his battle bells.

They actually are still adding in Geomancer things into the game as of this expansion. Kyokohu opened his school for Geomancy and they added a mount that was created/raised by Geomancers.

If anything this potion healer hint does nothing but leave Geomancer caster wide open for that juicy second spot, which a good portion of us have been speculating anyway.

[VenKitsune]

No, the only ones that would by anything even remotely close to a tease would be necromancer or berserker, but we already have two jobs that fill similar class fantasies, SMN and WAR. All the others we saw, like the ink mage, were very obviously just reskinned arcanists. They wouldn't tease something by giving it pre-existing weapons and animations we can already use.