What jobs are people generally hoping for now?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Some sort of non-tank melee dps that wields a sword (rune fencer or something, idk, could be a mage too)



3 of the 4 sword wielding jobs are tanks, with Sam being the only dps. Ninja uses knives.



I'm thinking 1 handed sword, no shield. Or could dual-wield swords like the sword singer from lineage 2. That was a fun class.

[Zebraoracle]

3 of the 4 sword wielding jobs are tanks, with Sam being the only dps. Ninja uses knives.

What is RDM, chopped liver? :P

Tank job with a spear and a shield
Melee job with a whip (not Beastmaster)
Necromancer (Probably as a healer)
Spellblade (could have two swords to differentiate it from SAM)

Actually super interested in a spear/shield tank (valkyrie?) and spellblade concepts, and healer necromancer (there's such a concept in D&D actually, it's pretty neat).

[Renalt]

Actually super interested in a spear/shield tank (valkyrie?)

A Centurion? Name theories aside...yeah a spear/shield combo would be nice. I am a fan of Polearms.

[grinkdaboy]

blitzballer
real blue mage
beastmaster
necromancer

[SassyAssassin]

Time mage! I want to pause the raid to go make a coffee from time to time :3

[Mithron]

I really want a Mystic Knight spell blade tank that plays akin to SAM where you build Enfire, Enblizzard, and Enthunder charges then unleash them all together for a big attack.

[Renathras]

Part of me wants them to tap the breaks on new Jobs and fix existing issues. I'm not in the camp of "no new Jobs until...!", but I do think a balance needs to be struck. And we already know DRG and AST are goign to be getting some kind of major reworks.

That said:

Green Mage - DoT Mage to replace the old SMN for the people who liked it. (I'm not one of them, mind you, but I want other people to be happy, so I'm more than fine asking for things for other people who aren't me)

Chemist - Would be neat to see a non-"Caster" Healer. Make it similar to MCH in terms of rotation (1-2-3 and some GCD CD abilities), give it a couple basic heals and a "Mix" command to combine a set of reagents like Mudras to get a given result. Give it a Caster/Canister gun/rifle to deliver the meds and to shoot its attacks (FFTactics Chemist equipment included the game's Elemental Guns/Rifles). Mix wouldn't be hard to implement, and the results would be a free cast of your basic spells (if you Mixed Potion or Hi-Potion or the like), or some of the more powerful stuff (like Elixir)

Geomancer - Can either be a "nature themed" (Earth, Air, Water) Caster for the people who really want that and are upset WHM doesn't do it, or can be a reverse RDM that engages in melee to build resources to spend on spells, sorta like PLD, just with nature elements instead of Holy.

Those are probably the top of my list.

In the "harder to implement" (the above three would be easy) category:

Time Mage - possible DoT Mage with party buffs/enemy debuffs.

Puppetmaster/Beastmaster - Either one as Limited Jobs could work; would finally be able to tell what are "Limited Job restrictions" and what are "Blue Mage restrictions", and it would be neat to have content actually made for Limited Jobs, plural, since BLU is the only one right now. They could also work as full Jobs but...SE doesn't seem to like pet classes and their minions would have to be a single skillset like normal Jobs where the customization is just unlocking, effectively, pet glamours by building/taming the various animal skins. Which would probably be fine, but a lot of people would find that far more boring than what they have in their minds.

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Necromancer is probably never happening - both taboo and "evil" - and Hunter/Sniper/Ranger is pretty unlikely - due to too much overlap with either MCH or BRD in weapon type. It might be possible to have something like a Corsair (though not like FF11, since FF14 doesn't allow for that much randomization anymore) that does something like dual wield a saber and a pistol like some kind of pirate swashbuckler Jack Sparrow sort of thing.

Likewise, Ruinic Knight/Spellblade are both fairly unlikely since they overlap a lot with PLD (which effectively is one) and RDM.

Yoshi P mentioned something like you say with about not using old Jobs...but then they reached back to FF3 and pulled out SGE. Granted, it was a different take on the Job (and possibly just a general use term like "Master" or "Wise Man"), but still relevant to point out, and RPR is FF14's take on Type-0's Sice.

3 of the 4 sword wielding jobs are tanks, with Sam being the only dps. Ninja uses knives.

Though I know you want Melee, keep in mind RDM uses a rapier, which is a type of sword, as well. And SAM is very much a sword wielder. Of the 4 (5 if you count GNB as a sword instead of a gun) sword wielding Jobs in the game, 2(3) are tanks, 1 melee, 1 caster.

A Centurion? Name theories aside...yeah a spear/shield combo would be nice. I am a fan of Polearms.

Haven't played it but vaguely aware of it: Didn't Lord of the Rings Online (the old one that's still running) have one of those?

And yeah, always liked polearms. DRG aside, it might not overlap too much due to the mix with shield, sorta like how PLD and SAM and RDM are distinct, despite each wielding a (in theory, SAM cheats) one handed sword.