Different types of Jobs, Healing Disciples of War and Tanking Disciples of Magic

[Eloah]

To be fair, I mentioned my idea of Red Mage being a different kind of DPS magic user, not a Tank, lol. The idea you have for a Geomancer Tank is good enough to me for adding a magic tank class. :P

Well I was trying to think of another tank, lol, but they could just be a DPS, just remove the enmity generation.

Also what are your ideas on my Dancer. I think how you described it is how I basically set it up. I know a friend of mine loved it, and said he could see it working in this game.

[TruebladeNuke]

Honestly, I haven't really thought of any specifics on how the moves would work. Just that as a healer, it'd have more buffs for the party over de-buffs for the enemies. As strange as a dance de-buff on enemies sounds to me, BRD's can do that by singing, so why not I guess? lol.

Personally, I'd rather see the Dancer with Chakrams though. I don't know why, but I'd rather see Chakrams.

[Eloah]

Personally, I'd rather see the Dancer with Chakrams though. I don't know why, but I'd rather see Chakrams.

Thats actually a cool idea. I was thinking along the the lines of a dancers ribbon, which is why I chose the whip, but a pair of chakrams could be just as effective, and could be a play on a pair of tamberines. This is good feedback, thanks.

As for the Dancer having the debuffs, well I went with the more "historical" aspect of the dancer being a debuffing job, whereas bards are usually buffers. And unlike the bards of this game that really only have one debuff right now, that really only works with black mages, a dancers debuffs help the entire party., and deal a little damage.

[Rynn21]

Chakrams sound like a clever idea for Dancer.
I really want SE to add Dancer and Blue Mage.

[Eloah]

Chakrams sound like a clever idea for Dancer.
I really want SE to add Dancer and Blue Mage.

Hey you, lol. Yeah, hopefully with more feedback I will have other ideas to adjust what I made. As for Blue Mage, I like the class but I'm not a die-hard fan. But I wouldn't even know where to begin to make them. I remember seeing that even the developers saw issues with this. The closes I could think of is maybe merging Mime with Blue Mage, so that Blue Mages aren't too reliant on enemy abilities. But I hope to see more feedback soon.

[Gainsborough]

I see u have Whip down for Dancer that is 1 more great weapons for a dancer i would say Square should watch video on Dynasty warriors 7 to 8 on Diao Chan and see how she fights.

Also and other great dancer Square made was back in 2000's on game Called Star Ocean Till the End of Time one the party member was little girl named Peppita Rossetti, Her main weapons are both her shoes and her bangles, giving her an unusual fighting style. u can tell she was Dancer her list of Moves like this Magical Dance, Healing Dance, Power Dance and Panic Dance where once Peppita very useful skills mostly Healing Dance if u did not have Healer on ur team.


it be Nice to see some the old Square Weapons in FFXIV but i do know not many will agree with my idea but it fine

[Eloah]

While I am not bumping this per se (totally bumping my own post, lol), I was wondering everyones thoughts on RDM, and if they had any feedback. I've been noticing a lot of RDM ideas lately, and, while i am trying to offer my advice on the subject, not many people have commented on mine. Now I don't know if that means my idea was solid from the start, which I doubt, but I'd really like to know what people think. I will say I've noticed a theme with other peoples RDM, and that is they try to give them too much; like melee, damaging spells, healing spells, buffing abilities, debuffing abilities, etc., after a while it just becomes too much. RDM is traditionally the jack-of-all-trades, and while that works for standard RPG, it might not work well in an MMO. So my personal advice is to pick a specific pair of abilities to balance and focus on only that.

Additionally, someone used my ideas, as well as other peoples, for a template to make their own RDM idea. I reviewed his ideas and tweeked them, while I personally might change a few things, this is my interpritation of his idea.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2827414