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

[xieathe]

I honestly don't think we'll be getting Necromancer, because it's too on the nose for the shirt and Yoshi-P is too trollish for that, plus he's stated outright he dislikes the idea of the job for the hero. So personally I'm holding out for getting Puppetmaster, but as a foil for *Zenos* getting Necromancer. So we'll both control other things (us automatons, Zenos maybe body hopping to be an immortal for?), but they'll be opposite sides of a spectrum. That way we can still get Necro but not as a hero job, and a lot of people have been wanting PUP.

[StriderShinryu]

I honestly don't think we'll be getting Necromancer, because it's too on the nose for the shirt and Yoshi-P is too trollish for that, plus he's stated outright he dislikes the idea of the job for the hero. So personally I'm holding out for getting Puppetmaster, but as a foil for *Zenos* getting Necromancer. So we'll both control other things (us automatons, Zenos maybe body hopping to be an immortal for?), but they'll be opposite sides of a spectrum. That way we can still get Necro but not as a hero job, and a lot of people have been wanting PUP.

Yeah, that's been my thought as well. There's plenty to dig into for the Endwalker show that isn't Necro.
"But the Live Letter shirt!" some will say, but that's the Live Letter and not the Endwalker show. It would be the perfect troll to wear a shirt with a literal grim reaper on it and then be able to say "haha, sure I wore that shirt, but it wasn't during the Endwalker show, was it?"
It just feels way too on the nose to be what a lot of people seem to think it is. Of course, that could also be a little bit of reverse psychology trolling by making us speculate about something that is blatantly staring us in the face. lol

[Shinklet]

I honestly don't think we'll be getting Necromancer, because it's too on the nose for the shirt and Yoshi-P is too trollish for that, plus he's stated outright he dislikes the idea of the job for the hero. So personally I'm holding out for getting Puppetmaster, but as a foil for *Zenos* getting Necromancer. So we'll both control other things (us automatons, Zenos maybe body hopping to be an immortal for?), but they'll be opposite sides of a spectrum. That way we can still get Necro but not as a hero job, and a lot of people have been wanting PUP.

This.
Considering samurai's shirt tease was a picture of spider-man.
Because... Sam Raimi = Samurai is too on the nose.

Whatever it is, I hope it involves something with a melee pistol.
I was hoping for pirate, but it is what it is!

[myahele]

It doesn't seem a bit too obvious and they even mentioned necromancer while talking. I guess it could go either way. I do remember him wearing a Scarlet Witch shirt and that was pretty obvious reference to Red Mage.

[Rymi64]

Yeah but it seem still small, so the "demonic scythe" where the "scealed demon" becomes the blade went just perfectly with my other ideas xD
Ppl think on either necromancer, templar, beast master but it can be a mix tbh. I don't see wol necromancer happening (who knows lol) but i can see necromancers be a part of the new job storyline and be the bad guys.

I don't think they are gonna call it necromancer since name can cause problems in some places. they can use some elements of it but not the name. I personally though a job name like yaksha would be pretty cool. I also wouldnt mind if this is 14's version of beast master or something like that and if they make a limited job version they would call it tamer since they didnt mention a new limited job for 5.5. In the end i would really want Ranjit's style of fighting to be the base of it, not exactly 1-1 since the style would diviate from the 1st and source but elements of it are there. Could even call it morpher.

[MPNZ]

Yoshi-P's T-Shirt:

The English text actually makes it sound like it will be a physical-ranged class and almost totally Vincent...

[NekoHina]

I was thinking Weiss since Sage uses glyphs like Weiss does. So, it's a combination of Weiss and Penny. I'd love to have the melee job to look like Ruby's weapon and fight style.

Very true about about Weiss and I totally agree about the scythe and Ruby’s fight style. That would be amazing!

[reivaxe]

People here seem to get really hung up on "Necromancer = only controlling corpses and bone-daddies".

Necros are far more than that. Basically dark & death stuff be it life drain, ghouls, souls and w/e.

Do I think it's going to be CALLED Necro? Prob not, could be. But if it's dark, edgy, scythe using job with a focus on death/ life/ darkness it's basically the same idea regardless of if they call it a "Reaper/ Herald/ Soul Eater" Or w/e edgy thing they want to use. Given that it's hinted at with 2 grim reaper shirts and our crazy not-friend likely having a scythe in direct conflict with the Holy Knight WoL PLD then yeah, I assume it's a dark edgy boi death thing.

[LisSquid]

I second the idea that it's probably a leeching/life-drain themed job and not a corpse raising necromancer. "Reaper" sounds very plausible.

[Enkidoh]

I second the idea that it's probably a leeching/life-drain themed job and not a corpse raising necromancer. "Reaper" sounds very plausible.

We actually already once had that here in FFXIV originally back in 1.0 - it was called THM.

Original 1.0 THM was about using umbral drain spells for healing and debuffs, and astral aligned DPS spells (like Dia). However it was radically redesigned when Jobs were added and thus it was changed to be a better fit for BLM (this is why THM/BLM has the whole 'umbral/astral' shift mechanic - it's a remaining legacy of it's 1.0 origins.). Unfortunately this meant they lost their drain healing abilities and spells in the process.

It's possible that SE may bring that sort of Job back, but I doubt they will (after all, the new healer has already been announced, so if there is any new drain healing for this remaining DPS Job, it will be more for self-heals and not party wide healing as that is not it's role). Either way, we'll find out in May.