Petition for Noctis Job

[Kranel_San]

'Armiger' isn't a weapon, it's a system.

Perhaps it could work with an 'Engine Blade', and be the melee magitek job, but that would seem a little too similar to a gunblade to me.

True, but it's something to begin with.
It's something up to the devs to make up, as I'm only here to ask for it and give a basic idea
I still remember back before EW announcements there was a couple of people asking for a reaper job that utilizes scythe similar to a guy from ShB ( Who shall not be named ) and some responses were like: "No a scythe isn't a combat weapon. No a dark-themed melee is just copy/paste DPS DRK"
And If that's any indication. An NPC from EW ( Who shall also not be named ) used a similar concept to a Noctis job and might be a hint or tease towards it being added in the future.

[Bsrking5]

A ring weapon might be cool but i have no clue what his weapon is or his job. Don't we already have it kindof?

[Jybril]

Weapon Master or a more cool sounding, Specialist?
I guess your skills would change based on whatever weapon they want it to be.
One would be a sword, your next combo is an axe, next is spear and so on.
If we're going by FF terms perhaps, yeah Freelancer?

Your limit break will the Gates of Babylon LOL.

[RobynDaBank]

Isn't MCH a weapons specialist, though? Even has Flamethrower.

[Jennah]

If his job is "being able to use every weapon" ... then aren't we all Noctis, in a way?

... I know practically everybody has those big ugly cars.

[Packetdancer]

If his job is "being able to use every weapon" ... then aren't we all Noctis, in a way?

Treating this more seriously, yes. Noctis doesn't have a job, he's defined by being able to do all the other jobs (more or less); he's basically like our poster boy Midlander, switching around between jobs. If I had to classify him as an actual canon Final Fantasy job, he'd probably be an Onion Knight. (Or maybe a Freelancer.)

Though, Onion Knight would be an interesting job. Especially if you took the War of the Lions approach, where the Onion Knight job level is determined by how many other jobs you've mastered. I don't know how you'd do it right, though.

Maybe the OKN (Onion Knight) has a level that's the average level of all your full combat jobs (including those not unlocked, and excluding any limited jobs), and in proper Onion Knight fashion is able to equip any gear you could on a given job. So if you have Gunbreaker at 78, your Onion Knight would be able to equip any Gunbreaker gear up to level 78, provided the Knight themselves was level 78. If you had MNK at 43, you could mix-and-match the GNB and MNK gear, provided the MNK gear was level 43 or less (and, obviously, that the Onion Knight's own calculated level is sufficient overall to equip whatever gear).

So if you had all the full combat jobs at 80, your OKN's level would be 80, and you could equip any level 80 (or less) combat gear in the game.

It could be really fascinating to shuffle around gear cross-job, both for substat optimization purposes (and for glamour purposes, I admit). And it would be a neat incentive to have leveled all the combat jobs, beyond things like "You get a title!" or "You get an amaro!" or "You get a horrifyingly garish hat!" But I have no idea what sort of ability-set you'd give OKN. Can you just pull bits and pieces from other jobs? It doesn't feel like that would work. Maybe you have to define a set of abilities per-job you can pull from, and once you've got the origin job to the appropriate level and the OKN to the appropriate level (by leveling all the jobs), you can use that ability on the OKN?

I mean, overall, OKN would be such a weird outlier I suspect it would need to be a limited job like BLU currently is, with its own challenges and subsystems.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Honestly I'd petition for a Beastmaster job. It'll play kinda like blue mage where you have a log of all the tamable monsters in the game and it having its own set of content like Masked Carnival. It'll reintroduce a proper "pet" class for this game too.

That or Chemist job where you can mix different items in battle.

[Vahlnir]

I mean, Gunbreaker is more Seifer than Squall, but yeah. Maybe it could be something inspired by Firion? No idea how it would work or what it would be called though. Weaponsmaster is about the best I could do there.

[SieyaM]

I can see a Noctis type job working where we are able to use a number of different abilities and weapons across many different jobs, but only towards the end of this games life cycle, when they are sure it will be the last expansion. Something like that would be pretty well able to solo most content given they would have access to DPS, tank and healing abilities, so they would probably be able to get away with running most things except the latest content without a party. Would be fun though as a kind of send of to the game having our character able to simultaneously use all of the jobs and skills they have learned during this time.

[Hysorn]

I would be more excited for something like Cloud's or Clive's. They both are very battlemage-y, whereas the closest jobs that currently accomplish that are PLD and RDM(And you know... PLD is... PLD, holy magic and all that jazz while the other is a duelist that had a dream of being a battlemage but ended up being a mage that sometimes likes to stab things).