Predictions for job(s) in the next expansion?

[Jandor]

Given that, it seems like there's kinda a rule that you don't get a new job for a role in the expac directly after that role received one.

It hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it's a rule though. I personally wouldn't be surprised if we got another melee DPS in 7.0.

It's also not unreasonable to expect that they will keep putting out at least one dps per expac, so the only real earlier point we could have gotten a new healer (without doubling up releases) would have been in 5.0 instead of GNB but that'd just flip things and 6.0 would be the earliest for them to be 4/4 either way.

Before the 5.0 jobs were fully announced the community thought we would get a healer, to keep the amount of healers the same as the amount of tanks. Turns out that didn't bother SE though, and DNC was released as a ranged physical DPS.

For 6.0, a lot of the community has been expecting another ranged DPS, usually a caster, because for some reason the common consensus had become that SE are aiming for 4/4/4/4/4 per "role". It turns out they're not though, and it's going to be a melee DPS.

I imagine the balance between jobs per role is something they consider, but it's clearly not their highest priority & it doesn't seem like they're working to the same "roles" as we are.