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

[Amnmaat]

I need that necromancer to be a healer if it comes. Beserker to be a new melee dps that shares drg armor and chemist to be a physical range user

Interesting take. I actually wouldn't mind chemist being dps, I've been wanting an mmo to finally add a "thrower" class for a while. Throwing deadly poisons around would be a lot of fun.

And I gotta say, that Necromancer boss looked like so much fun; I never wanted this job until I saw how that boss summoned zombies and poison puddles like that, it looked very unique to anything we have right now.

As for Berserker, as long as it's not another sword user it would be a perfect fit, specially if they make it a slow melee, something we don't currently have.

[Fukuro]

I'd go crazy if something like the apothecary in octopath traveler became a real thing. I know the chances are likely 0%, but i always wanted a close ranged healer job.
A potion mixing healer with a huge-ass axe dealing some scary dmg? That would be AWESOME!
But currently something like that would most probably not be possible and wouldn't work with the current healer system at place.
All i ever wanted was a non-robe, close ranged healer (wow's holy paladin for example)

[kaynide]

I could have sworn I posted this already, but I couldn’t find it in my post history....probably buried in some other post but:

I am 99.9% sure the new jobs will not be any of those to appear in The Heroes Gauntlet. Rather, I thought it was a nod to “jobs you keep asking for that aren’t even on the table for consideration”.

Seemed like an inside joke to me.

If I was a betting man, I would say a healer seems a solid possibility for 6.0, but probably a name to avoid confusion with alCHEMIST like Apothecary, Herbalist or Medic.

Beyond that I would bet a Maiming or Scouting DPS. Either something very predictable like Mystic Knight based on past FF games..or a wildcard new job like dual handguns or some craziness.

[BasicBlake]

I could have sworn I posted this already, but I couldn’t find it in my post history....probably buried in some other post but:

I am 99.9% sure the new jobs will not be any of those to appear in The Heroes Gauntlet. Rather, I thought it was a nod to “jobs you keep asking for that aren’t even on the table for consideration”.

Seemed like an inside joke to me.

If I was a betting man, I would say a healer seems a solid possibility for 6.0, but probably a name like this to avoid confusion with alCHEMIST like Apothecary, Herbalist or Medic.

Beyond that I would bet a Maiming or Scouting DPS. Either something very predictable like Mystic Knight based on past FF games..or a wildcard new job like dual handguns or some craziness.

You really think they are going to add a 5th melee dps while the two other dps roles have 3 each?

Just a reminder that they add classes based on role (the main stat bonus they provide to the group), not by the different gear sets.

[Bright-Flower]

I don't expect that these boss fights are actually secretly new job hints. Especially berserker which is too similar to Warrior imo. Just give that outfit to WAR as its next AF set and you're good.

Necromancer could work but again I don't think these dungeon bosses are actually hinting at anything. Especially since that means ignoring the thief boss and only focusing on the other two.

[kaynide]

You really think they are going to add a 5th melee dps while the two other dps roles have 3 each?

Just a reminder that they add classes based on role (the main stat bonus they provide to the group), not by the different gear sets.

I do:
If you boil it down to:
A) Think Ranged DPS (6+1 limited) vs Melee DPS (4), instead of "Physical melee", "magic ranged" and "physical ranged".
B) 5.0 added a ranged DPS (Dancer) and just before 5.0 we got a psuedo-kinda-ranged-DPS (Blue Mage)
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Were it any other order I would have guessed the ranged physical DPS or magical DPS as you said there are 3 of each.

I wouldn't be surprised if it actually becomes a magic DPS though.. in fact I'd say they will eventually move BLU to another column called limited jobs with something like beastmaster. But for 6.0? My bet is on Mystic Knight and some kinda medic/chemist to go with what I'm guessing will be Dalmasca.

[BasicBlake]

I do:
If you boil it down to:
A) Think Ranged DPS vs Melee DPS (instead of "Physical melee", "magic ranged" and "physical ranged")
B) 5.0 added a ranged DPS (Dancer) and just before 5.0 we got a psuedo-kinda-ranged-DPS (Blue Mage)
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Were it any other order I would have guessed the ranged physical DPS or magical DPS as you said there are 3 of each. I wouldn't be surprised if it actually becomes a magic DPS though.. in fact I'd say they will eventually move BLU to another column called limited jobs with something like beastmaster. But for 6.0? My bet is on Mystic Knight and some kinda medic/chemist to go with what I'm guessing will be Dalmasca.

But... they don’t classify the split as melee vs ranged. The 5.0 website even has the dps split as melee, caster, physical ranged.

You also can’t count blu because it’s a limited job. Which isn’t involved in party composition at all. I really hope the limited job we get in 5.5 is melee so it will stop the hordes of “we need more melee”

Though I am with you on Rune Fencer. I just don’t think we’re getting a 5th melee before a 4th caster. I really do think we’ll get it, in 7.0

I’m assuming because of this thread and the new patch that the new trial has people excited. I just say “get in line” for that. Since they’ve been adding in Geomancer stuff for 3 years as of 5.3

[SeikishiYuuki]

Also considering the role quests which are replacing job quests are Physical, Magical, Tank and Healer and they talked about potentially giving Physical Ranged and Physical Melee their own separate quests down the line. They clearly see Casters as a unique role.

[kaynide]

But... they don’t classify the split as melee vs ranged. The 5.0 website even has the dps split as melee, caster, physical ranged.

You also can’t count blu because it’s a limited job. Which isn’t involved in party composition at all. I really hope the limited job we get in 5.5 is melee so it will stop the hordes of “we need more melee”

Right, which is why a mage-class wouldn't surprise me. I'm just saying where I'd put my money on. For all we know they could reorganize the jobs add "support" (they talked doing that to BRD at some point) or "magic-melee DPS".

Ultimately it's just a label for organizational purposes as there really isn't a difference in magic damage vs physical, with very rare exception. Regarding the ShB questlines, it would be nothing to have X jobs to to Y quest in one expansion then reorganize in another.

[SeikishiYuuki]

It's not really organizational its a point of balance between jobs and roles. It's pretty unlikely they'd add another role or move them around just to add a job, its too much work. It's an Occam's Razor kinda situation, the simplest solution is likely the ideal one. The easiest thing would be to add a job to an existing role that will give a good point of balance and be desirable by at least a decent part of the player base. That's the venn diagram we, should look at.