6.0 New Job (Healer: Sage and Melee DPS: ???)

[van_arn]

People always expected DRK to be a dps, so I could see them revisiting the concept with a job in maiming gear wielding a scythe. Not entirely sure what they'd call it, though.

[Kikoten]

If it turns out to be a dark-themed job, without actually being a Necromancer, the first thing I think of are the Reavers from Dark Age of Camelot. If something like a Reaver were to accustom to the FFXIV universe, I could see them wielding scythes and spinning dark magicks to curse/do otherwise sadistic things to enemies.

[EdwinLi]

People always expected DRK to be a dps, so I could see them revisiting the concept with a job in maiming gear wielding a scythe. Not entirely sure what they'd call it, though.

Guild Wars 2 did do the concept of a melee Necromancer Job being the Reaper Elite Spec. That is a example of one possible way the Melee Job can be.

[Fawkes]

Yoshi-P's Live Letter T-Shirt:

[EdwinLi]

Yoshi-P's Live Letter T-Shirt:

at this point things are looking like a Scythe Job for the upcoming Melee DPS.

[Kaedan]

Yoshi also said he WILL not put in necromancer for the same reason we never got thief. He doesn't want the hero of the story being perceived as "evil".

Except that he hasn't...

[Gemina]

People always expected DRK to be a dps, so I could see them revisiting the concept with a job in maiming gear wielding a scythe. Not entirely sure what they'd call it, though.

Makes total sense. I suppose a melee job could still use MP as a resource making Necromancer viable, I just think people might assume that such a job would spend most of its time casting spells. I don't think this has to be the case at all. A scythe alone could leave the door open for all kinds of speculation, but given the reaper/Death theme, Necro's being known scythe wielders, and a recent callback to Edda with the new emote; it makes it really difficult to think of anything else.

[Fadnog]

I got it!
Post-70 BLU is going to be retooled to be a melee DPS, because that's what it usually is.

Yoshi-P's shirts depict Grim Reapers. Reapers are charged with going around and COLLECTING souls, in a similar fashion that BLUs go around COLLECTING souls of their foes to learn/use their spells.

FYI, I'm not serious and I'm only joking.

[Rymi64]

I got it!
Post-70 BLU is going to be retooled to be a melee DPS, because that's what it usually is.

Yoshi-P's shirts depict Grim Reapers. Reapers are charged with going around and COLLECTING souls, in a similar fashion that BLUs go around COLLECTING souls of their foes to learn/use their spells.

FYI, I'm not serious and I'm only joking.

Beast MASTER???!!!!?!?!?!?!?@

[Juzjuzz]

I imagine some kind of exorcist for the new mele tbh. A job that hunts everything "not natural", like necromancers and other things. I don't think it will use necromancy but they could use any other montruosity (just a demon for example) scealed inside them, their weapon or the job stone. If some of you know wakfu, it's like the guardians of the shushus. When theese guys use the power of the demon, their body transforms. I don't see a full transformation like ranjit happening, but more something close to nero's arm, summoner's Dreadwyrm Trance, or the demon will be just a pet like automaton queen/Living Shadow or a mix of all of that lol

https://imgur.com/gallery/x5FYO5Z

This looks like a scythe so maybe next melee a scythe?

We don't see the blade tho (or it's really small lol), unless the blade is the monster/demon that an exorcist could control