Thread: What Tank & Healer Class would you like to see added in Expansion 3.0?

I think a good idea would be a shapeshifting class~
I used that type of class in in mmo once before and its so much fun to use and gives you many different options in ways of play.

To adapt it into a final fantasy format, I'll put it this way.

Say when you reach level 30 - instead of getting a 'job' as it were, you learn a new way to shapeshift.

Like you could pick to shapeshift into a certain animal which gives you tanking benefits, dps benefits or healing benefits.

Kinda like being a summoner except you ARE the pet.

I doubt something like this would ever be put into final fantasy, it seems like it would be a total nightmare when it came to dungeons (like... you'd have to lock in on an animal or something), and might make it too unfair on other characters - but hey, I can dream, right?

Originally Posted by Brightshadow

The idea of a tank range class sounds great, but there are many factors that go into tanking and it seems to me that if a ranged tanking class is added they would be able to outperform the other tanks.

Well the whole Range Tank in SWTOR wasn't really a Range tank. It was more of a Melee Tank that can hit enemies faster when they're far away since the entire time as a Vanguard/Power Tech you are mostly at Melee range to tank them and to use your skills while any range attack was for grabing aggro from mobs that start running away from you or were too far to get back into melee range. Not to mention a good amount of Vanguard/Power Tech skills were melee range attacks.

If FF14 obtains a Range tank that follow like the Vanguard/PowerTech then it most likely may be the Gunblade class since FF14 lore for gunblade is set towards it being a Melee/Range combat weapon similar to how Vanguards and Powertechs of SWTOR handle their weapons. With the tank skills designed around the Gunblade melee combat style to build and keep aggro while using hit range combat skills to grab aggro for its Tank Job Path and having a DPS Job path for Gunblade class follow that it focus on using the Gunblade range combat style for DPS combat while having some melee skills that helps the Gunblade DPS Job fight off or keep its distance from enemies that would try to get in melee range.

That just how I think a Gunblade class/Job could be handled in FF14 due to current combat styles shown through cutscenes in FF14 involving the Gunblade so far.

Originally Posted by Brightshadow

Gunblades for sure can be used for tanking but a true gunner would feel weird especially since we have classes that would be better suited for the role like puglist and lancer. However, what job would a gunblader unlock it would have to be something completely unique

Well they're aiming for Unique gameplay styles now anyways with the new classes/jobs and a gunblade class/job does provide a unique opportunity for a unique gameplay style due to the weapon's nature for being a melee/range combat weapon in FF14.

I'm more curious what will the Gunblade class/job names will be if added into FF14 since there hasn't been a solid name given to classes that use Gunblades in FF series unlike the other weapons.