Which class do you want added into the game the most?

[Hurlstone]

Has to be Red Mage. I just love their 'Jack of all trades' style and I adore their sense of clothing. If they added the job, it would be my instant main. Honorable mentions go to the Blue Mage and the Puppetmaster job from FFXI.

[NintenPyjak64]

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I read what you quoted a few times over and what it's saying is that there won't be a Thief CLASS. Yoshida keeps going back to the point of guilds which is where classes originate, it's all pointing to a CLASS. Do Bards have a guild? The NPC is a guy in South Shroud sitting on a stump. Do Monks have a guild? You're learning from the Ala Mhigan about Monk and their internal energy. Warriors? It's a Roegadyn in hidden falls that's shunned for being a monster

They said Thieves can't be classes, but that won't mean Thief won't eventually be a JOB. Yes he says "We intended Rogue to be the Thieves of today," But like I said, WHAT IF there was a Rogue that rejected Limsa and went on his own. He developed new skills on his own or learned from others (who've also rejected Limsa) Thief based skills. He's getting old and wants to pass on the skills he learned and that's where we come in. After the final Rogue quest we could get a rumor of an elderly thief and we'd have to investigate being a highly recognized Rogue from the guild

If I'm wrong in the future, please call me wrong and I'll admit I was wrong. I won't deny what I said. Until then I'll keep my hopes'

I'm getting way too off topic and in a prior post I posted what I'd like to see added so I'll leave it here

[Kerowyn]

The most OP class is a Master Sabers/Enhancement with a touch of Healer Jedi from SWG Pre-NGE :P I could kill 5-6 Bounty Hunters without breaking a sweat. Any more than that and Id have to kite them around the planet and kill them off one or two at a time :^D /nostalgia

Edit:

Haha wrong thread but I'm still leaving it here cause yeah I want my old Jedi back :P

[Exstal]

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I wanted to call it Thief.

That's all you need to know about the thought process and the extend of Naoki's vision of thief in FFXIV.

名称については……開発チームでも本音を言えば“シーフ”と呼びたいのです（苦笑）。

About the name, Even though the development team didn't want it said, I wanted to call it Thief. (how I would read it)

Truthfully, I wanted the job to be called “Thief,” but the development team wouldn’t have it (laughs).

EDIT: However, since SE can do whatever they please with their game as long as they can make it somewhat reasonable, to say Thief (job) is completely off the table would be foolish. I personally doubt that it'll happen since Ninja is in the game unless they do a throwback to XI.

EDIT2: Realized my first link was actually broken
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/122...dia-Interviewf

[Alistaire]

Oh, and we need a caster tank of some kind. Not Red Mage, a pure caster. No I don't know how that would work.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Mystic_Knight

[Pyreflye]

In no particular order

Dark Knight
Red Mage
Blue mage

[Garlyle]

A job I want the most is Blue Mage

However, I'm pretty sure that with XIV's extremely deliberately designed nature and aversion to situations where a player might fail to 'fully develop' their class capabilities, I'm not sure a Blue Mage in XIV would actually feel particularly Blue Mage-y, if that makes any sense.

So I'll back calls for Dancer and Samurai.

[Xairos]

Ill add that making two jobs off of one class is risky at the least. 1) for the sake of skill point allocation (like SMN and SCH) and 2) because so many players would have auto level 50s on a brand new job.

So making Thief branch from Rogue (which will be level 50 if and when Thief comes out) means a slew of fresh level 50s.

They did it with SCH, ill admit, but I don't know of that was super intentional. But this is just a theory thread so,...

[Dijana]

Dancer, a thousand times dancer.

Have it be a melee healer like it was supposed to be in XI (but never was) or at the very least, a support dps

[Kaethra]

Red Mage and Dark Knight for me. Though they are my second choice. Rogue and Ninja was my first choice so I'm excited to see them come in the next major update.

As for the topic of thieves. I don't get why everyone is in a tizzle about them not being called thieves. In D&D they used to be called Thieves until 3.0ed. But I can see why it was changed in D&D and the same reason is being used here:

All Thieves are Rogues. Not all Rogues are Thieves. So you'll be able to do your thiefy thing and dress like a thief with thief weapons as a Rogue and you could even RP as a thief if you wished. But the good news is, anyone wishing to Rp their Rogue as Not a thief could reasonably do so. Thieves are thieves because they commit thievery. But what if you have all the combat capabilities of a thief yet never steal? You are a Rogue in that case. Perhaps you spy, kill, or troubleshoot instead.

Basically the only difference is in the UI will say ROG instead of THF or THI or whatever Thief would have been. Not to mention people coming from previous MMORPGs will instantly recognize the Rogue and what its capabilities will be.