What new DoL classes might we see in expansions?

[ruinedmirage]

I would love to see a Chocobo Breeder class as DoH - Have it be a high barrier to entry, like needing 3mil gil to buy a stable, or you can rent stables from players or NPCs, and then be able to breed chocobos by buying or gathering from botanist/something like the arcane gatherer or something like a mechanical gatherer like scavenger, to make different "Knuts" for the chocos you buy to breed with.

Give the chocos different runspeeds and abilities, and allow people to sell them to players:

- Blue Choco = current choco runspeed + extra high jump | adds a passive MP regen to combat when summoned
- Green Choco = current choco runspeed + sprint button | adds a passive HP regen to combat when summoned
- White Choco = 1.25 current choco runspeed + immunity to draw ins/knock backs while mounted | adds a 10% buff to magic damage in combat when summoned
- Black Choco = 1.25 current choco runspeed + cloaks you to all hostile creates that are more than 1 level below you | adds a 10% buff to melee damage in combat when summoned
- Gold Choco = 1.35 current choco runspeed + all other choco abilities | 1/2 of all other choco's combat abilities

Just make then expensive as all hell to breed and to buy : D

Class imbalance right here. If you have a slow chocobo, you're late getting to FATEs. If you don't have a chocobo summoned, you're gimping your regen bonus/combat immunities/buffs provided by chocobo (though you could consider this already being in the game with choco regen and stuff). Hence why I said it would be detrimental NOT to have one out.

And assuming that only one person would be willing to be a chocobo breeder is ridiculous in itself. EVERYONE wants to try a new class. Not to mention the cheapskates, like myself, who would gather items on the other side of the world and not spend more than 5,000 gil for anything when it's basically free. I would NEVER buy a chocobo from anyone else, especially at high prices (maybe I've played Monster Rancher series too much). So while I'm saying that I'm obligated to be that dedicated breeder, there's thousands of others saying, "no, I am", "no, I am". And SE is saying, "Let everyone level everything!" In the end, there is no monopoly because it's something everyone has and is selling.

I hope that wasn't too confusing, it sounded legit in my head while typing, but is a little convoluted when rereading it. Don't get me wrong, though. I mentioned this class months ago, as did others (if you try the search button). It just needs to be completely independent or have very little influence on other classes, at least until SE makes it so that DoW/M can't level up more than one or two DoH/L, creating more trade, reliance, and interaction between the disciplines instead of promoting GW2 syndrome.

[Githiun]

Ehayte thats a cool idea. I've always hated that there's only one runspeed of the mounts.

[Shadygrove]

Choco breeding is to be a part of housing so there will not be a class for it.

Personally I wish they hadn't abandoned the Shepherd class. I kind of envisioned it as being able to gather stuff off animals, perhaps stuff unavailable any other way.

I was also amused by the thought that BST might have required something like LNC 30 + Shepherd 15.

[Ehayte]

Choco breeding is to be a part of housing so there will not be a class for it.

Ah, well - all the same principals apply either way, I guess thinking about it again my ideas would not be dependent on anything other than creating the knuts, which could be done in other DoH, or Botany.

I was also amused by the thought that BST might have required something like LNC 30 + Shepherd 15.

LMAO - awesome. I'd also love to see a Chemist that is Arcanist/Alchemist.

[Claire_Pendragon]

Sharkanist.

Use your bare hands to wrestle sharks into submission.

Pet Sharks for everyone. (Topaz, and Emerald Sharks.)

[ruinedmirage]

Chocobo Breeder may cause a lot of unbalance if it affects other classes performance. So far, they've done a pretty good job with crafting and gathering and battle classes, because not everyone wants to be everything/feels it's REQUIRED to be everything. The problem chocobo breeder has is that it may offset everyone's priorities to where it's detrimental NOT to get it leveled up first.

The logical thing to do (if you don't want everyone to be a carbon copy of everyone else) is make it casual, as much as many people don't want to hear it. Make it trivial enough to where some/most people don't consider it worth the time ........... kind of like gathering. People do it for - dare I say - "fun" or to save their gil. This goes for ANY new DoH/L classes.

The other option is to make an equivalent case for combat classes that may feel excluded for not wanting to take the time to level something like a DoL up, such as finding "instant win" chocobo eggs out in the dungeons or something.

[Ehayte]

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I'm not following a lot of those ideas - can you elaborate on how chocobos will create class imbalance?

If you make it so that chocobo breeders can sell chocobos to other players, then each server would only really require one person to do it (and then make absolute bank off having monopolistic pricing!). That way its like all the other crafting classes, its either worth your time to level up the craft, or you can trade your time in the form of gil to someone who has already mastered the craft, or, in this case, put the time in breeding chocobos.

[Xerius]

I'd also like a class sort of like an Entomologist or Zoologist which just goes around and collects critters from all over the place. Could get insect parts for alchemy, fishing bait,bug houses for crafting in housing, special minions.

[Simaril]

I'd also like a class sort of like an Entomologist or Zoologist which just goes around and collects critters from all over the place. Could get insect parts for alchemy, fishing bait,bug houses for crafting in housing, special minions.

This could gather a lot of items that already exist in the game.

Also, Radagast the Brown. That is all.

[StianGold]

NO! I dont want any new classes ;( I want a lalafell mount!