Predictions for job(s) in the next expansion?

[MirronTulaxia]

Nah, I meant Astrological. The Aries symbol is a stand in for the constellation, and so on and so forth. Astronomy doesn’t really need to factor into it at all, these things predate astrology and astronomy as separate practices.

But yeah, if there is anything of note in this it’ll be some weird limited job based on the concept of a traveler. But even that seems doubtful.

[EdwinLi]

Nah, I meant Astrological. The Aries symbol is a stand in for the constellation, and so on and so forth. Astronomy doesn’t really need to factor into it at all, these things predate astrology and astronomy as separate practices.

But yeah, if there is anything of note in this it’ll be some weird limited job based on the concept of a traveler. But even that seems doubtful.

Who really knows due to we're at the point of no return now since before 5.3 released they said they were already working on the 6.0 CGI Cinematic which means they had already finished or near finishing the 6.0 new jobs.

If developers wanted they may make it into the Noctis job with all the Job skills based on Noctis' Armiger attacks with some new skills as well for the 1,2,3 combo just to keep it as a normal job players can use for normal content.

[MirronTulaxia]

While hypothetically anything can happen as there aren’t any hints that is on the table I feel comfortable discarding that. Hypothetically they could take White Mage out of Healer and move it into DPS where it uses the power of aramitama to smite and curse foes. That’s about as likely as what you propose.

[Jandor]

I think those convocation stones were sort of like job stones, but with more of a focus on knowledge relevant to your office instead of being a collection of useful martial abilities. You know, stuff like 'you need to do X' and 'your predecessor did Y and Z'. Things like that.
I reckon the ancient Amaurotine picked to hold an office would be expected to already have some relevant skills to the position before they took the posting, as such the convocations wandering problem solver would be picked because they're already pretty handy in a fight.

I reckon that when it comes to handy things to know in a fight we've probably already absorbed the most relevant bit of info from the Azem crystal, the 'summon the lads to help you out' skill.

[EdwinLi]

I know it is not going to happen but if it did imagine if the next Limited Job is Beast Master and the concept of it was to collect monsters in the open world so players can challenge NPCs and other players in a pokemon style battle. I always predict that the next Limited Job maybe Beast Master for some reason but part of me doubt it due to how Blue Mage was not well received due to how it is restricted to old contents and can't be used for normal contents.

It should have everything from the battle being in a instance arena with the camera even circle around the arena and close in on the Monsters and characters like in Pokemon Stadium games, all characters are fixed into position facing each other, 2-Bit FF style music for the battles, the monster we have only have 4 skills, and the Job storyline should be about our character becoming the very best Beast Master with the final quest having us fight the "Elite Four" Beast Masters with the finale fight being the Champion Beast Master.

[Aurelius2625]

Honestly I'd like for a job to be whip themed, like Simon or Richter Belmont. Maybe like a "Hunter" class or some sort. We already have a hybrid melee/magic in RDM, so maybe something less on the magic side, and more on the melee side with some magic flair?

DNC is the throwing weapons job, so that is kinda out.

Maybe a hammer based class?

Or maybe something like in PSO2: the bouncer, with jet boots to perform high velocity kicking attacks of different types that imbue your boots with different elements that tie into different buffs for different purposes? It'd be like the kicking version of MNK but with elemental stuff to deal with, like a melee job that has magic with it to be a counter to RDM's more magic based kit.

[MirronTulaxia]

Eh, Dancer weapons are mostly round from what I recall, so I could see something more along the lines of kunai/throwing daggers, or perhaps other specific shapes. After all we have... Sword and Shield, Greatsword, Gunblade, Katana, and Rapier, so a second throwing weapon that isn’t chakrams doesn’t seem that out there.

Other weapons... kind of depends. Honestly not sure weapons are the starting point normally. Like Dancer probably started as... well, Dancer, and then they figured out the weapon. Unless the job is tied to a specific weapon like Gunbreaker it’s not a big deal.

Big issue is we are staring to run out of major non-mage jobs, especially if you stand by things like Ninja is Thief, Warrior is Berserker, and so on. Past Beastmaster I don’t think there is a major physical leaning (and you could always do Beastmaster as a mage with instruments) job not yet in, at least again if you are of the stance other jobs have been absorbed into them. They presumably could just make up new ones, at least that’s why I imagine they’ll do, but if so then that makes it hard to predict.

Or maybe we are wrapping up on jobs.

[BasicBlake]

I dunno if I could see whips being put in. Physics wise they are melee+, they def don’t have the range of a gun, bow or chakrams. And with how small the models would have to be since you know, how a whip is, I feel like it would be really hard to have some real distinctive or cool designs for each new trial.

As for BST I hope it’s tied into the “ranch style content” Yoshi P said was on it’s way. Just let us collect monsters for our own person side content ranches please.

[JanVanding]

I honestly think the next two Jobs will be Time Mage and Geomancer

The Time Mage would be another supportive DPS, like BRD/DNC and Geo a Melee focused Healer.

[SeikishiYuuki]

I honestly think the next two Jobs will be Time Mage and Geomancer

The Time Mage would be another supportive DPS, like BRD/DNC and Geo a Melee focused Healer.

A melee healer is probably never going to happen the way raid mechanics work, many of which being designed to make healers be away or moving to be resolved or there's a finite amount of available "melee" positions available like in Ramuh. So any healer that needed to be melee to function Dps/Heal would die in the meta. Iono what time mage would really do as a support caster that feels more like what Geo would be XD