We need an Eastern themed caster

[Raikai]

I'm baffled when some people invalidate GEO as the "same thing as AST" - even if the power source is similar, the way they act is vastly different.

While I like the idea of a Geomancer, and defnitely wouldn't mind an Eastern Caster with it, I'd personally prefer a 'curse themed caster' in the form of Mystic/Oracle/Onmyoji.

[MikkoAkure]

Lore-wise GEO is described as an eastern equivalent to CNJ/AST in the encyclopedia. GEO is so close to AST that AST barrier magic works on established GEO barriers because the magic is the same. Later on, the stars are described as another aspect of Geomancy and the characters describe AST and GEO as being two sides of the same coin.

There’s also the fact that there are no job stones and training is done from master to apprentice the old-fashioned way. The only proper geomancer in the world is locked behind AST quests and I doubt they’d overhaul a whole questline just to justify the existence of a new job when they can just do something else.

[Naraku_Diabolos]

The entire lore of the 70 AST questline is basically “AST look up at stars, GEO look down at star but we are the same”

They won’t make GEO an offensive caster when they have gone out of their way to include it in the lore it’s just AST

GEO in FFXI was fun to play and it’s a lot different. We could setup “totems” that give buffs or enemy debuffs in bubbles like it does in FFXI. However unlike FFXI, it can still use various types of spells that are Water, Earth, and Wind. We don’t even have a bell weapon yet.

[Tsiron]

Well, we sort of did...

... as the off-hand of the Classical Smallsword :P

[TaleraRistain]

If they add a new healer at some point, they could go the Gosetsu route with it.

[KageTokage]

If only they could've made Pictomancer Hingan in origin and with a traditional inkbrush aesthetic vs. the goofy magical girl-esque nonsense we ended up with.

[WantlessYoYo]

It always amazes me how people paste NEED on almost everything, not a "Would like", not a "Would be cool", no, we NEED it

[sindriiisgaming]

There is literally a land of the far east, and not a single eastern caster. Western and European themed magic is cool, but its time for the east to get a caster next time around.

Geomancer
A mage with paper seals floating around them (love those class types in RPG)
Onmyoji
Oracle

There are so many themes that could be used to make an eastern caster a reality in FFXIV.

everybody allways wants doubles of jobs we already have meanwhile whenever i cry for 'nother gunner class I'm ignored

[Avoidy]

That's what I hoped we'd get in DT, but instead we got pictomancer.

It always amazes me how people paste NEED on almost everything, not a "Would like", not a "Would be cool", no, we NEED it

Yeah, hyperbole's wild and infectious like that. Much like people who say they're "amazed" by fairly mundane things, it's just something we have to get used to in 2024.

[Destati]

If only they could've made Pictomancer Hingan in origin and with a traditional inkbrush aesthetic vs. the goofy magical girl-esque nonsense we ended up with.

God this is what I was hoping for when people were speculating Pictomancer as the next job. While I don't mind the colors, I am not a fan of the silly cutesy moogle/spriggan motifs it looks like we're going to be painting. :/ Makes me wish they would implement an "animation glamour" feature where we can change the aesthetics of the VFX.