Quote Originally Posted by Tamaerl View Post
Wouldn't this just be separating Black Mage from everyone else? Or are they giving us another damage-focused caster in 7.0?
Well, historically we're due for a new caster. It's the DPS job that has now gone the longest without a new addition to the role. We just got healer and a melee dps so those are good for now, and tank/ranged dps prior to that in ShB, so a caster dps job makes sense. If they keep to the two-per-xpac rule then it's a bit of a crapshoot what we'll get. Only confident thing to say is that it won't be a healer or a melee dps and I personally don't think they'd introduce a fifth tank so soon after a fourth tank, so we might end up getting both a caster and a 4th ranged dps in 7.0. Which makes a kind of sense, since it would boost the ranged dps options up to 4 per general category. Then they could probably further differentiate the caster and ranged physical roles into pure dps/support dps sets, similar to what they did with healers and the pure healer/shield healer designations.

Of course this is all speculation on my part. The only thing I'm certain of nowadays is that SE will bork it all in their mad dash to oversimplify everything that isn't BLM.