A Must Have Future Class - IMO

[Melsan]

Rougue/Ninja class will be available soon in the game and everyone is looking forward to it. I do hope SE would add such class as:

DoW:
Name: Templar
Job Class: Zealot
Required Class: DRG Lv50
Weapon: Scythe
Role: DPS Melee

"Job: Zealot"
1st Skill: Scythe Storm
Description: Throws scythe towards your enemy and damage enemies within the blast.
Damage: Potency of 200
Blast Radius: 7 Yalms
Skill: Instant
Cool Down: 3 seconds
Distance: 15 Yalms

2nd Skill: Scythe Dance
Description: Increase damage by 20% and defence. But, decreases M.resistance and parry by 10%
Skill: Instant
Duration: 20 Seconds
Cool down: 80 seconds

3rd skill: Soul Crush
Description: Sacrifice 99% of your remainiing hp to inflict damage towards target. Skill can be activated when HP is down to 30% or less. Skill damage potency of 350
Skill: 2.30 Seconds casting time
Cool Down: 180 Seconds

4th Skill: Oversoul
Description: Teleport towards target and perform 3 hit combo to the target and blast at the end. Damage enemies within the range. Damage potency of 240 combo damage of 320
Combo skill activation: Scythe Dance
Skill: Instant
Cool Down: 3 Seconds
Distance: 15 Yalms
Damage blast radius: 5 Yalms

5th Skill: Bleed to death
Description: Attack enemy with two hit combo and and stun. Damage potency of 180
Skill: Instant
Duration: 3 seconds
Cool Down: 30 Seconds
Duration: 18 Seconds


Name: Hunter
Job Class: Sniper
Required Class: Bard Lvl50
Weapon: Guns
Role: DPS Range

1st Skill: Wind Chime
Description: Increase damage and accuracy by 15%
Skill: 3 seconds casting time
Cool Down: 60 Seconds
Duration: 25 Seconds

2nd Skill: Arrow Explosion
Description: Attack targeted enemy using arrows with remote explosives attached. Damage potency of 150, skill activation while Wind chime is active
Skill: Instant
Cool down: 30 seconds
Blast Activation: While wind chime is active

3rd Skill: Arrow enhancement
Description: Increase critical hit rate of 15%
Skill: Instant
Cool Down: 30 seconds
Duration 25 seconds

4th Skill: Head Shot
Description: Attack targeted enemy to the head and to inflict great damage. Damage potency of 240
Skill: 3 seconds
Cool down: 30 Seconds

5th Skill: Hiatus
Description: Attack targeted enemy and inflict heavy. Damage potency of 120
Skill: Instant
Cool Down: 30 Seconds
Duration: 12 Seconds

Name: Knight
Job Class: Heavy Knight
Required Class: PLD Lv50
Weapon: Two Handed Sword
Role: DPS Melee/Tank

1st skill: Birthright
Description: Increase enmity while the skill is active and increase HP, defence by 20% and 5% STR then buff party members with en-earth
Skill : Instant
Duration: 15 Seconds

2nd Skill: King's blessing
Description: Grants Holy blessing to weapon to increase damage against enemies that are weak to the said property,
Skill: 1.30 casting time
Target: Self or other player
Duration 25 seconds
Cool down: 3 seconds

3rd Skill: Sword Heave
Description: Struck the sword to the ground and lift a bounder to throw it away to the target and inflict stun for 2 seconds .Damage potency of 180
Skill: 1.30 Casting time
Range: 12 Yalms
Cool Down: 3 seconds

4th Skill: Sword swing
Description: Swing sword and hit everything within the range. Damage potency of 190
Skill: Instant
Cool down: 3 Seconds

5th Skill: Alexander's Will
Description: Sacrifice 90% of health while its full to enhance defence by 80%. Cannot regain HP and healed for 30 seconds after skill effects ends. Bless party with fire element
Skill: 4 seconds casting time
Duration: 15 Seconds
Cool down: 180 seconds


DoM:
Name: Gypsy
Job Class: Dark Priest
Required Class: WHM and SCH Lvl50
Weapon: Gloves
Role: DPS Melee/Buffer

1st skills: Blessings
Description: Blesses target with elemental magic to incrase damage by 15% to certain enemies that are weak against to that element. Following elements are:
Wind Blessings
Water Blessings
Lightning Blessings
Darkness Blessings
Skill: 1.30 Casting time
Duration: 30 seconds
Cool down: 3 seconds
Note: Blessing can be stack up to 5 but effectiveness and duration remains the same
2nd skill: Wings of Diabolos
Description: Summon swords imbued with darkness to hit the target and gain darkness blessing. Damage potency of 190
Skill: Instant
Cool down: 3 seconds
Buff duration: 30 seconds

3rd Skill: Hymm of fayth
Description: Convert 20% of mind to increase damage and receive lightning blessing.
Skill: 3 seconds casting time
Cool down: 120 Seconds
Duration: 30 Seconds

4th skill: End of saints
Description: Sacrifice 50% of remaining HP to MP and recieve darkness blessing.
Skill: Instant
Cooldown: 120 Seconds

5th Skill: Death Wish
Description: Sacrifice 99% of HP and MP to summon an unknown being from the depths of hell to takeover the caster's body. Once entered Death Wish state, HP will be based from Mind stat, 1 mind = 19HP Job skills and base skills will be unavailable which caster will have two new skills, such as:
Meltdown: Damage enemies in straight (7 Yalms) line to reduce enemies defence by 12% with a damage potency of 240
Clock work: Cancel's death wish and regain 50% HP
Death wish duration: 35 Seconds
Requirement: 5stacks of Darkness blessings and HP and MP must be full
Skills: 3 seconds casting time
Cool down: 240 Seconds


Name: Sage
Job Class: Magus
Weapon: Orb
Required Class: BLM Lvl50
Role: DPS Range

[Jandor]

Your post is a bit lacking in information. What abilities will they have? How would they play? What niche would they fill?

[Titor]

I think it would be cool to have "elite jobs" that require level 50 classes/jobs to unlocked

[Melsan]

I think it would be cool to have "elite jobs" that require level 50 classes/jobs to unlocked

Yeah, I am actually looking forward to that. These classes that I posted meant for new class and not for 3rd job but of course the game would eventually go to that direction. ^_^

[Moqi]

I am so confused about what name and job class are supposed to be.

But Templar a DPS? I am sad

[AniCelestine]

Yeah, I am actually looking forward to that. These classes that I posted meant for new class and not for 3rd job but of course the game would eventually go to that direction. ^_^

Well if they are meant to be new classes, in my opinion, they shouldn't need other class leveled to 50 already. That's just ridiculous in my opinion.

[Jican]

These jobs lack any sense of balance, lore to explain why they exist and where they came from, and how they would mesh with the already existing jobs. Honestly, I love these threads, they're a dime a dozen and almost no one gets them right. Throwing out abilities and jobs because you can is a good way to not only get mocked, but show that you have no idea how to actually create a working part of the game.

[Zej]

The problem with the classes requiring a level 50 to "unlock" them is that people will then assume that they are innately more powerful than the other classes, which can be unlocked at level 10 on your first class. It's the same problem that Blizzard had when they called Death Knight a "Hero" class and required a higher level to unlock it instead of being from the get-go.


That being said, here's my comments on the classes themselves:

-Templar -> Zealot: This just sounds thematically wrong to me. In most fantasy/RPGs Templars are generally considered to be higher in rank than most soldiers and also tend to have a militaristic or martial background as a part of a larger religious organization. Zealots tend to be anybody who feverishly or devoutly believe in a faith to a point of extremism. While the two can be linked due to religious fervor, I doubt that we, as adventurers, would pursue this route or of Ishgarde would allow a Templar to wander about like that.

You could break these up into two different class/jobs and the theme would probably work better.
Initiate-> Templar: Melee DPS with a 2h Mace.
Acolyte-> Zealot: Darkness-based caster with scrolls/dolls.

Hunter-> Sniper: There's already going to be a "gun" class coming and it's term is probably going to be Marksman/Musketeer if it's a true dps class. Otherwise I'm fine with this. Though I think this opportunity is better spent as a second Job offer branching from Archer, rather than it's own Class/Job. That way you can move better support skills onto Bard and better dps skills onto this branch and keep the two different.

Knight-> Heavy Knight: The problem with the name is that Paladins in the Japanese client are actually called "Knight" and not "Paladin" like it is in the English Client. Aside from that, the problem is that I would go a different route if you were going to keep this line of thought. Here are my examples:
Squire-> Grand Knight
Mercenary-> Soldier
Rune Fencer-> Mystic Swords(wo)man

Any of those would be fine. There's also a thematic problem: There's no Kings in Eorzea at this time. The closest thing that we, as players have access to at this time is the Sultana of Ul'Dah. The Sultansworn grant us access to Paladins, so that wouldn't be the best fit. Alexander is probably a primal (my bet is in Garlean Empire too :P) so we wouldn't want to use his will

Sage-> Magus: Typical FF Mythos has Sage over Magus in terms of prestige and overall skill. Sages tend to be masters of both White and Black magics. Whereas Magi tend to be the face of the supreme destructive force of black magic. That may not hold true in FFXIV, but most classes are built from some part of FF mythos at this point. This would be my suggestion:

Apprentice-> Magus.

I like the fact that you had ideas and shared them on the forums, but you should take a look at some of the other class/job posts from Mimilu and see how to build a better class structure