Forecast: Ninja with a chance of Samurai?

[Kisshu]

I have no doubt that we might get Ninja or Thief, but how would that work if it involves 2.2 storyline? Do we have to play all the way up through the main story and have a lv 50 class/job just to be able to get the class/job we actually want to play. It would suck for people if they really wanted to play as a thief, but had to play through the entire story just to unlock it.

[Mikejconnor]

would like to see nin or drk mostly but really idc what they add as long as they add something and like soonish. ^^

[Aeora]

I'ma book a day off work just to hammer the new class when it's out. . . I've been waiting for Nin for so long . . . now it's coming (hopefully).

[charlemagne]

In some respects it's a bit daft to look forward to some jobs just because we loved them in xi. The systems in xiv are so different, many of the jobs would have to change so much they'd be almost unrecognisable.
SAM for example wouldn't have the main thing that imo made the job what it was, the ability to be an opener and closer of so many skill chains. Knowing which weapon skills you could use with different other party members and coordinating them was the heart of the job. Being the tp king just wouldn't work anywhere near the same way either. Similarly Blue Mage seems to me to be unworkable as we know it in xiv. We just don't have the mobs with enough useful skills to be worth learning. Corsair would probably be a shadow of the xi version if the way bard has been implemented is any guide. brd has an extremely small fraction of the songs it had in xi and cor would likely have a similarly small fraction of rolls.
In short I think many of the jobs will share little that made us love them in the first place, other than the name and weapons.

[Spyrit]

A pirate themed gunner class, a Corsair obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PppFGYVW4

Corsair gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP9AbHEuoz4

Roll the dice, press your luck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-P8kQKDYo

[Ryans]

I'm not saying it isn't possible for more than just a gunner and dagger class in the "shortly after 2.3" job additions, but I think it's unlikely. Musketeer has had it's ground laid for years now. It's only logical for it to be added. The dagger class is obviously going to be something that Yugiri teaches us and she will be working with an already established secret guild, meaning she most likely won't be bringing all her to people here to start teaching us. It is going to be her privately working with said guild and ourselves to show Eorzea her special talents. Lore wise, once that works out, I could see her people establishing their own guilds, leading to even more jobs, but not at the same time as the gunner and dagger classes.

[Rbstr]

In some respects it's a bit daft to look forward to some jobs just because we loved them in xi.

Good? XI isn't the only FF. There's plenty of other FFs from which to draw the template of SAM from...
Maybe the template I think would be coolest isn't technically in an FF game:
The Sword Master from Bravely Default. It's be cool to have a parry/counter tank. Easily different enough from the other two but not so different that things would really be shaken up. Not impossible to balance like dodge tanks.

[Demetirus]

Okay, but that's not a class.

Whoa whoa whoa.. Eddie Izzard is *pure* class.

(Sorry, I had to.)

[TeaTimeBear]

One of the NPC's during the Doma quests mentions that a he doesn't understand how an adventurer can serve with no master. I took this as a tease for Samurai's eventual appearance.

I have no doubt that we might get Ninja or Thief, but how would that work if it involves 2.2 storyline? Do we have to play all the way up through the main story and have a lv 50 class/job just to be able to get the class/job we actually want to play. It would suck for people if they really wanted to play as a thief, but had to play through the entire story just to unlock it.

Makes sense to me. It won't take a new person too long to breeze through the story.

[Aethergoggles]

After people mentioned the gunblade somehow I kind of picture a tank, the ranged pull being a shot from the barrel, and rather than a shield offhand could be a poniard or parrying dagger of some sort, with the parry stat on it.