Predictions for job(s) in the next expansion?

[Rymi64]

Plot twist...

BST is a limited job that can use any weapon in the game; aka monk-ish Ran'jit and his dragon.

Another twist..

BST is not announced Feb 5th...

MUAHAHAHA!!!!!!

A bigger plot twist would be that they don't add it at all and they add a completely different limited job all together XD

Also since 5.45 is before the announcement there's a slight possibility that we see a new job hint in Delubrum

[Wrestlefire769]

I'm thinking BST, but, frankly, that could be seen as way too powerful.

[Jandor]

This post might prove to be hilariously wrong by next weekend, but I really doubt they're going to reveal another ranged DPS of either physical or magical flavour.

A melee feels more logical to me, either as a 4th STR user and a 2nd maiming gear user, or as part of a gear streamlining where all the STR DPS use the same gear, all the DEX share gear, and all the INT users share gear, leading to 4 of each.

MNK, DRG, SAM, new job = Striking DPS.
NIN, BRD, MCH, DNC = Scouting DPS.
BLM, SMN, RDM = Magic DPS.

Maybe I'm bias though, none of the caster ideas I've heard seem very interesting to me & I doubt it'll be two physical ranged jobs back to back.

[Styrmwyda]

Healer.

Then the 'second' job is Sum/Sch finally splitting from each other as two standalone jobs.

I mean, they already are. They only thing they share is levels and XP.

[CKNovel]

I mean, they already are. They only thing they share is levels and XP.

They share more than that.
Ruin, Bio and Physick are on both jobs except they evolve differently and Physick is completely useless on SMN.
They share the Aetherflow mechanic, it also evolve differently.
Resurrection is also shared.

They share all the bases that comes from ACN, it only evolves differently but everything is there.
They also share the poorly coded pets.

[Jandor]

They share more than that.
Ruin, Bio and Physick are on both jobs except they evolve differently and Physick is completely useless on SMN.
They share the Aetherflow mechanic, it also evolve differently.
Resurrection is also shared.

They share all the bases that comes from ACN, it only evolves differently but everything is there.
They also share the poorly coded pets.

Scholar technically only inherits Resurrection from Arcanist, every other action is under the Scholar section on the actions tab.

[Rymi64]

This post might prove to be hilariously wrong by next weekend, but I really doubt they're going to reveal another ranged DPS of either physical or magical flavour.

A melee feels more logical to me, either as a 4th STR user and a 2nd maiming gear user, or as part of a gear streamlining where all the STR DPS use the same gear, all the DEX share gear, and all the INT users share gear, leading to 4 of each.

MNK, DRG, SAM, new job = Striking DPS.
NIN, BRD, MCH, DNC = Scouting DPS.
BLM, SMN, RDM = Magic DPS.

Maybe I'm bias though, none of the caster ideas I've heard seem very interesting to me & I doubt it'll be two physical ranged jobs back to back.

They could always make a caster that plays like HW mch. I would love to have a job that plays like HW range physical without the range physical going back to casters.

[Valmaxian]

My guess is Chemist and Pictomancer. Chemist seems pretty obvious. My speculation about Pictomancer is because of Alphinaud. He is the only of the original Scions who doesn't really have a unique job (I don't buy Academician - that's a fancy word for Scholar). He cultivates his skills as an artist, and could potentially tap into that ability, and turn it into his own kind of magic.

[BasicBlake]

Fingers crossed for news of a chemist like healer and geomancer caster this Friday. 5.0 the Geomancy school opened in Kugane, and 5.3 brought the potion healer nod. As well as the only other npc in the game to share a weapon model with the Geomancer npc was brought back into the story.

[SweetPete]

Fingers crossed for news of a chemist like healer and geomancer caster this Friday. 5.0 the Geomancy school opened in Kugane, and 5.3 brought the potion healer nod. As well as the only other npc in the game to share a weapon model with the Geomancer npc was brought back into the story.

What weapon? Maybe I missed that.