Predictions for job(s) in the next expansion?

[VentVanitas]

I have absolutely no clue on what the new job would even be, especially considering that SE is willing to make up new weapons like Sage's Nouliths. I just have one request: for the love of all that is holy, please don't make the new melee use Striking gear.

- Sincerely, a concerned Monk.

[Styrmwyda]

Someone on Reddit actually solved it.

The album that T Shirt is referencing is produced by a man named Temple; it will be Templar.

The Filth and the Fury; Halone is known as the Fury, hence it will be a Ishgardian based job.

It means we will be getting Aymeric's job. One Handed Sword job that everyone has been asking for forever. Before you go all, no way! The Samurai Sam Raimi theory was totally correct.

If this is true, it will likely be a Maiming DPS like DRG.

[Sairys]

Yeah... Alternatively I kept reading some theories about the new melee dps job being the Mystic Knight instead, as in:

- There is some Arabic-looking text on top of the shirt (so the skeleton would be just a fake clue) - Dunno what it says, tho;

- Traditionally, always at least one of the jobs tie in with one of the featured zones lore-wise. In ShB GNB didn't tie necessarily with a major zones, but Bozja and Gunhildr is a big feature side-plot as well. Given the Sage's aestethics most likely resembling Sharlayan things, and not having that place available... Only makes me think that Mystic Knight tying with Thavnair aesthetics;

- Looks like a good candidate for the Maiming gear with DRG;

- We got a glimpse of the "imbuing weapon with magic" in the latest WoL trial;

- Wields 1h Scimitars... Yeah, another sword, but it would warrant at least a unique sword aesthetics to it. Also nothing holds them of bringing Mystic Knights with a different weapon, even the scythe itself;

So, first up, I think Mystic Knight could be it but the logic is just different heh.

For example, it's been pointed out that the script actually just spells "nbhd" in english just with an Arabic looking font, it's just an abbreviation of the band name (neighbourhood) for the shirt. Also, we do have a Thavnair job thanks to DNC, however, Zodiark is either imprisoned in or is the Moon we're visiting so the tie in concept would be maintained without doubling up.

The reason I think Mystic Knight might be up is mostly that a Hades-style weapon could conceivably be a magitech construct/hack to use spells in melee. The crystal/staff on one side channelling aether and imbuing the other side with spells which you then hit the targets with.
Personally, given nouliths are probably what the melee weapon is going to be compared to it'd even more disappointing if it turned out that melee ended up with just another sword variant rather than trying something more out there, especially given scimitars are already available to PLD beyond just pure glam.

[Ariki]

Lyon rem Helsos is holding a green scrythe.
he is a "beastmaster"?

in ff11 beastmaster hold a axe though...

[Zohar_Lahar]

Lyon rem Helsos is holding a green scrythe.
he is a "beastmaster"?

in ff11 beastmaster hold a axe though...

Lyon's weapon looked like an axe to me.

[Rymi64]

Someone on Reddit actually solved it.

The album that T Shirt is referencing is produced by a man named Temple; it will be Templar.

The Filth and the Fury; Halone is known as the Fury, hence it will be a Ishgardian based job.

It means we will be getting Aymeric's job. One Handed Sword job that everyone has been asking for forever. Before you go all, no way! The Samurai Sam Raimi theory was totally correct.

aymeric is just a paladin without a shield though.

I honestly think it will either be a Scouting+Aiming DPS (like NIN) or a Maiming DPS (like DRG).

Also, made a thread about my idea for a Beast Master (BST) job. I don't think it will come in Endwalker though.

They seem to be hinting that its gonna share maiming gear going of recent interviews

Lyon rem Helsos is holding a green scrythe.
he is a "beastmaster"?

in ff11 beastmaster hold a axe though...

Lyon uses a mini shinryu axe

[Calysto]

Was the "we're adding a 4th tank/3rd ranged so everything is balanced" in 5.0 a lie ? now there's a distinction between melees and a subclass between healers.
Next classes they should add are a limited job since blu is alone and a new rng gatherer since fisher is alone

[SpiralMask]

If this is true, it will likely be a Maiming DPS like DRG.

from the interview here (helpfully translated by the ff14 discord!)

■6.0の新たな近接DPSジョブについて
Regarding the new Melee DPS

・竜騎士だけ特殊な立ち位置なので枠だけ言ってしまうとそこに足すことなったので、6.0新ジョブは近接DPSに決定した
"Since DRG is currently at a special position, if we're only talking about slots it was natural we add it there. Which is why we decided on having melee DPS as our second new job."

・DPSというロールをやりたがる方が基本的には多いので、拡張ごとに攻撃をするジョブが追加されないというのはないかなと考えている
There are many players who want to play the DPS role so they tend to add new job that specialises on attacking. It seems that there hasn't been an expansion where attack specific jobs isn't added for each expansion.

・近接DPSが厳しいということについて、ギミックを複雑にして高難易度を作ると移動や攻撃距離に制限があるジョブはどのMMOでも厳しくなり、これをどう回避していくのかについては常に悩んでいる
Regarding on how playing melee DPS is hard/rigid, Yoshida commented that it's never easy to play a job that has restrictions in movement or attack distance when facing complicated mechanics in high difficulty content no matter which MMO you play, so they are always worried on approaching the aspect of how to dodge those kind of mechanics.

specifically calling out DRG being in a special spot and adding a class to it's place would imply a maiming class. that'd leave scouting/ninja as the only remaining "if this shows up in a raid drop everyone cries in despair" sets

[BasicBlake]

Was the "we're adding a 4th tank/3rd ranged so everything is balanced" in 5.0 a lie ? now there's a distinction between melees and a subclass between healers.
Next classes they should add are a limited job since blu is alone and a new rng gatherer since fisher is alone

That was my issue as well. They went right back on it. All because of "dragoon gets invited too often over the other melee so we added another melee".

[BasicBlake]

from the interview here (helpfully translated by the ff14 discord!)

specifically calling out DRG being in a special spot and adding a class to it's place would imply a maiming class. that'd leave scouting/ninja as the only remaining "if this shows up in a raid drop everyone cries in despair" sets

I'm no game expert but how does adding another melee into the spot of the melee that is already invited over the other melee dps going to fix any of this. Now it's just going to be the new melee, or the new melee plus drg taking up the 1-2 melee spots in raid. Leaving the same melee as before not getting invited...