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

[BasicBlake]

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So are we just gonna ignore the fact that we would never be getting another stone or aero animation? Or any water? I’m just gonna stop the VerAero and ninjitsu talk before it starts as well.

Also there is loads more Geomancer information than these max level quests you talked about. There’s a whole dungeon centered around them, their god is a trial in the game, one founded Doma, they are still adding things as well speak to the game in regards to them. They even opened a new Geomancy school in Kugane as of 5.0. They’ve been brought up in AST quests, a dungeon, a trial, talked about in Orbonne. Multiple mounts created through them. The school has opened. Not even mentioned the original datamined files of them being the dps counterpart to white mage like summoner is to scholar. There is just too much of a NAMED Final Fantasy class over the pass 3 years for them to not do something with it.

I agree it would step on toes of conjurer, no longer white mage, if it was to be a healer. But as a caster it wouldn’t.

Also with Yoshi’s talk of the removal the the archaic starter classes there is even less of a problem. They have started pruning ARR content it’s not like that won’t be coming at some point soon.

[SeikishiYuuki]

You can't really expect much more than placeholder things from jobs like that inkmage, They aren't going to reveal new animations for an upcoming in development expansion. As too the Astrologian's in Coerthas, they are such in name only since they don't actually use Astromancy and a more just astronomers. 6.0 Will also likely see the end of classes and move to just jobs, as well a nother culling of skills to reduce bloat as 10 new lvls get added. This will probably leave a lot of room for other class identities to exist.

[Iscah]

Also with Yoshi’s talk of the removal the the archaic starter classes there is even less of a problem. They have started pruning ARR content it’s not like that won’t be coming at some point soon.

How long ago did he suggest that, and has it ever been brought up again since?

Was it even a "we're planning this" or just a wishful "I'd like to do this [but haven't worked out if we can]"?

People keep bringing it up but it's not something regularly/recently touched on as far as I'm aware, and it would make a mess of all the class quests and initial transfer to jobs.

[BasicBlake]

How long ago did he suggest that, and has it ever been brought up again since?

Was it even a "we're planning this" or just a wishful "I'd like to do this [but haven't worked out if we can]"?

People keep bringing it up but it's not something regularly/recently touched on as far as I'm aware, and it would make a mess of all the class quests and initial transfer to jobs.

It was around the same time he was starting to get asked about the pruning of the ARR content. The interview centered on the pruning, the new jobs not having to go through the slog that is starter classes. And how he felt locked by the system that 1.0 had them trapped in for awhile when it came to classes.

But sadly it's been years and I don't have my Yoshi P spreadsheet open on excel with time stamps. (God I wish it would make stuff like this so easy.) I wanna say it's from the beginning of Stormblood though? Because it came up because of RDM/SAM not needing starter classes. Since now it was a trend and not a one off thing from Heavensward about not needing them.

[Iscah]

I wanna say it's from the beginning of Stormblood though? Because it came up because of RDM/SAM not needing starter classes. Since now it was a trend and not a one off thing from Heavensward about not needing them.

So he was talking specifically about not giving starter classes to new jobs going forward? Unless more was said, that's a very different context to removing classes for jobs that already have them.

[BasicBlake]

So he was talking specifically about not giving starter classes to new jobs going forward? Unless more was said, that's a very different context to removing classes for jobs that already have them.

People asked why the new jobs don’t require them. He said he didn’t like that they forced the older jobs to have them as a carryover from 1.0 and said he would like to remove the starter classes.

I’m not a Yoshi P expert or have the whole interview memorized. I would try googling it possibly though.