Thread: New Class/Job in 2.2?

I may be jumping the gun here, but with the 2.2 update being centered around Maelstrom as a Key word and the Lord of Whorls being unleashed, I think our Sea Fairing Grand Company is going to share with us her secrets of the Corsair and Pirate/Buccaneer. Pirates plague the area around Limsa Lominsa and pirates who have given up their ways are the farmers of various locations across La Noscea.

With that, the hints for the update so far...Am I too far off to assume the possibility of the Sea Fairing Jobs and Classes making an appearance?

Maybe I'm just looking into it too much and getting hopeful over nothing, but it feels like the devs have been dropping several hints that the next class, likely to be introduced in 2.2, will be the Musketeer. I just hope it's more than just me being overly optimistic...

Or maybe we'll see both? Musketeer -> Corsair, Scout -> Ninja / Thief. Boom added a ranged and 2 melee DPS jobs. So long as NIN isn't a tank in this game, should be good.

personally musketeer, even if i want to see it... it's maybe the class that i want the less, many other jobs can be added for increase the gameplay of the game.

indeed the musketeer guild was there since V1, indeed it was planned to be the next added... when it was tanaka leading. when yoshida have take the lead, it have fall back a lot. (soo much that arcanist was added first) but what it will bring to the game? what mechanic and role will he fill? that the true question we must ask there.

Rogue-like class can bring far more actually, what we don't have in the game it's a true debuffer. everyone can debuff a bit, but no jobs can cripples the enemy and i feel it's missing. other point add a ranged class now, will simply make the melee jobs life horrible... it's already to the point where you bring 1 melee dps only for the LB and get only bard, black mage or summoner. in the case of the monk it's worst, people tend to get a dragoon for buff the bard dps.

it's more time for them to focus on the balance between ranged and melee class. because even with the fact to bring only one of each jobs for the lb, you still have 1 melee dps for 3 ranged dps...

however, i doubt seriously that they will add new class soo soon after the release... when the balance it's still not that good. 2.3 or 2.4 seems more legit.
maybe in the 2.2 we will see a raise of level cap.

ps: as jobs i await a lot they are stuff like Dancer that will bring interesting new mechanic to the game.

Not sure where he said it, but Yoshida definitely mentioned that he wanted to add another Disciple of Magic before anything, since there are five Disciples of War, and only four/three Disciples of Magic. He's also mentioned that he kind of "has to" add in Musketeer, because of the guild.

indeed musketeer will be needed at some point, but right now, today it's that needed? i really really doubt it.
bring another ranged dps will need a lot of work for balance it and make it part of the whole game.
other point that i just did think, bring the musketeer now will create a big inbalance even in the melee one. the musketeer will probably be a piercing damage dps. even if they add magical bullet. bring a monk over a dragoon if you have a musketeer will loose all interest. even if the monk dps is good, it will not beat the fact that your dragoon will boost the musketeer and the bard dps.

all of this for say, it's maybe a bit early for a new class/jobs. i really hope we will get a raise of level cap first.

ps: indeed yoshida "has to" since it was said 3 years ago... but sadly with the game as it is... i doubt it's the better move to bring it now.