7.0 Poster Class

[Renalt]

It would be funny if it was a profession class. Saving the world...one craft at a time.

Do you remember where you were when the WoL saved the shard with his mighty skillet during the potato famine of the 15th Umbra Calamity?

[Shurrikhan]

Whatever it is, I'm hoping for a scouting job that is a reverse red mage. It does melee attacks to build up a gauge so it can do powerful casting abilities as its burst.

I could dig that. Maybe Adept or whatnot, as an agile, swift, fluid attacker wielding a staff as an actual weapon?

[Raikai]

I wonder if we'll actually get an expansion teaser at the Fanfest, and from that we'll probably be able to picture the actual poster class.

I highly bet that if it's Meracydia, I think Summoner will be a big thing. It would be a nice breath of fresh air to see the WoL actually being a caster, and Summoner even have physical elements (Ifrit's dash combo) to add some action to a trailer.

[keeper_of_moon]

The Scions filled the caster/healer niche for a long time so there wasn't any need for the WoL to be a DoM. It's honestly hard to tell if we will finally separate ourselves from them this next expac but if we do, I would expect the WoL to be some sort of Caster.

Otherwise going down the list:
Pld: Done in EW
War: Done in ARR
Drk: Done in ShB
Gnb: Thancred's poster job
Whm: Cnj Y'shtola's poster job ARR-SB
Sch: Alphinaud's poster job ARR-ShB
Ast: Urianger's poster job
Sge: Alphinaud's poster job
Mnk: Done in SB
Drg: Done in HW
Nin: Possible although sort of covered by Yugiri
Sam: Done in SB
Rpr: Depends if Zero sticks around.
Brd: Ach in 1.0
Mch: Possible
Dnc: Possible
Blm: Y'shtola's poster job
Smn: Possible
Rdm: Alisaie's poster job
Blu: lol get out

If we get 2 new jobs next expac, I expect Krile will job change to one of them (probably new caster job) so then it'll be whatever the other job is which is very hard to guess.

Look at this list again, Mch or Smn would not be a bad choice.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Assuming they are going to go with something that portrays as masculine/physical as they have the entire time. Of the jobs left, Gunbreaker or Reaper seem likely unless they go for something new.

[Zebraoracle]

Nb4 they reuse a previous job and don't use a new job at all.

[CaptainLagbeard]

healers need more representation something something buzzword buzzword reeee.

But seriously, The Derplander hasn't even been a healer in any of the trailers. They deserve to be in the spotlight once in a while, and maybe that would motivate the dev team to do something about the fact that most of the fight they¨re just mashing one button.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

You means healers aren't supposed to be sleeping waving from the back of formation playing the 'weak, UwUfied anime healer princess'-role while their biggah stronger tanks/melees/physicals take the front row?

/s

[Zebraoracle]

You means healers aren't supposed to be sleeping waving from the back of formation playing the 'weak, UwUfied anime healer princess'-role while their biggah stronger tanks/melees/physicals take the front row?

/s

Laughs in discipline priest and old fistweaver monk in WoW
Laughs in bard and chloromancer in RIFT

[Renathras]

They tend to like Tanks/Melee because they can do fight scenes with them more. Not including 1.0 Archer, we've had 2.0 WAR, 3.0 DRG, 4.0 dual MNK/SAM, 5.0 DRK, 6.0 PLD.

In addition to that, we have the Scions taking up several slots:

GNB (Thancred), AST (Urianger), SGE (Alphie), BLM (Y'shtola), RDM (Alise), DRG (Estinian), PLD/WHM/BLM? (G'raha)

The Jobs that haven't been done yet, and aren't headlined by Scions already, would be WHM, SCH, NIN, RPR (debatably featured in EW via Zenos), BRD (arguably, if we don't count 1.0's ARC), MCH, DNC (though it did feature briefly in the ShB trailer), BLM, SMN. And whatever new Job(s) are added in 7.0.

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The real thing is it depends on where we go and the theme of the expansion. If it has an Alleg/Meracydia theme, they could do SMN. SMN could actually make for some fantastic cutscene work as well if they wanted, especially considering FF16's got a similar theme going, albeit more punchy.

They've also used a brand new Job before (in the case of SAM) to headline an expansion, so that's possible, too, but RPR is less likely since it just came out and is very specific lorewise to Garlemald's secret society stuff, the story of which is PROBABLY done unless they double-down on Void/Thirteenth in 7.0. NIN is unlikely since that would most fit SB or an expansion centered on Hingashi, which while possible doesn't seem especially likely. And so unless they decide WoL needs to stand shoulder to shoulder with Thancred as a second GNB, that covers all current Tanks and Melee in the game.

WHM isn't overly likely unless they do a War of the Magi theme (in which case BLM could also feature, possibly as an antagonist like Zenos RPR or possibly as the WoL with the WHM being the antagonist), SCH is unlikely unless an expansion is themed around either Nym or around knowledge in some way, or travel to a Faerie Kingdom Shard (which is pretty unlikely since Il Mehg exists and already kind of covers that). MCH is possible if they're going for a more mature theme or a steampunk "Let's go to the FF6/7/8 world's Shard", which is possible I suppose.

Krile will probably feature as "New Caster/Healer Job X" if there is one, meaning the WoL probably won't be whatever that is, instead being "New Job Y" in the case there are two added and they want to go that route.

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EDIT: I suppose if one wants to get REALLY technical, they could point out PLD, WHM, BLM, BRD were in the 2.0 trailer, but...considering we also got PLD in 6.0 and they were Ardbert's party rather than Derplander himself...