The Future of THM

[Bowen]

Just my personal guess, but I bet conjuror "unlocks White mage" but conjuror the class will be the Black mage.... and Thm will become Red Mage.

Ahem, they already said each class is getting one job. With CON and THM being the only two Magic classes atm, it seems like they will make CON BLM and THM WHM.

[Coglin]

Ahem, they already said each class is getting one job. With CON and THM being the only two Magic classes atm, it seems like they will make CON BLM and THM WHM.

Ahem....No, thats not what they said. They said "initially" they will only release one job per class. That does not by any means, mean what happens beyond that cannot be discussed.

So whats your logic behind your guess Bowen? What brought you to the conclussion that the class with advanced healing (curaga), advanced resserections, and buffs, is more likely to be blackmage over the class that focuses on debuffs, life taps, light and dark magics, stat siphons, sacrafices ones blood to add health to another or to raise mag. potency?

[Bowen]

Ahem....No, thats not what they said. They said "initially" they will only release one job per class. That does not by any means, mean what happens beyond that cannot be discussed.

So whats your logic behind your guess Bowen? What brought you to the conclussion that the class with advanced healing (curaga), advanced resserections, and buffs, is more likely to be blackmage over the class that focuses on debuffs, life taps, light and dark magics, stat siphons, sacrafices ones blood to add health to another or to raise mag. potency?

With WHM and BLM being the only two mage jobs as of now and the fact that we are getting 1 job for each class initially is my reasoning.
Also, look at the attire of CON and its abilities. CON's Attire looks very BLM-like. And they have Ancient Magic. ]

THM's Attire is similar to WHM attire too. Both wear hooded clothing. And, there are two temples in Uldah. One dedicated to death and life after death (THM guild) and the second which is dedicated to life and preserving it. It makes sense. Now, this is just my opinion. I really hope CON gets BLM since ever since jobs were announced ive dedicated myself to level CON for BLM.

[zaviermhigo]

I just don't think SE like mages very much, in my opinion they haven't made very many good decisions (not any bad one eithers, just meh mediocre ones) So whether or not THM gets blm or whm, I just hope its awesome. I wanted a whm type class (due to lore in the game), but I'll wait till we have to have the conj+thm= rdm, yoshi talked about with advanced jobs.

[faceman7381]

Something to consider:

They have confirmed White Mage, Black Mage AND Bard as job names. No one has tied Bard to any class yet.

If you view this pic: http://i53.tinypic.com/wveibs.jpg we do not see a bard character here. That is unless the Marauder is the bard. I don't think it is, but then, who really knows? We do know that the guy who keeps appearing in the Ul'Dah story quest with you is called a bard when you first meet him and he carries no weapon.

With bard, white mage and black mage all confirmed as jobs, is it possible that Thaumaturge could be bard and that the never released Arcanist could be white mage?

Some points have been made that Thaumature's spells are more buff/debuff stuff which is classic bard. I don't really know anything, but could it be? The guild hall is there for arcanist and we have seen the You-tube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h9pLB4CHpo so there is some working form of arcanist in the game code.

I will say though in my own oppion, I think that Thaumature is going White Mage and at patch 1.20 you are gonna see healing spells taken from Conjurer and given to Thaumature. However, as I have shown, I could be wrong.

Thoughts?

[Coglin]

They said they are not introducing new classes.

Conjurer is much more a buffer then thm by far.

Bayohne said in that art, that it was a picture of a bow that transforms.

[Rubicon]

Barcher.

Anyway, I am firm that THM > BLM and CON > WHM but I will give into you naysayer with this thought: If CON > BLM then CON is the healer and BLM will strengthen the elemental spells and not allow the use of Cure because it makes no sense for a BLM to Cure. THM > WHM means that more sacrifice type spells open up (can't give them Cure, CON has it) and THM will be the damage dealer.

Yea that makes a ton of sense!

[Morningstar]

The screen shot demonstrating mages casting in passive mode shows a THM casting fire. Now of course any THM can cast fire that has it equipped from CON but I feel SE would have normally done a demonstration with abilities that are native to the class they are showing. So I feel like they intentionally showed us THM casting fire to hint that they may be rearranging abilities around or at least THM will have access to them as "BLM".

[Coglin]

The screen shot demonstrating mages casting in passive mode shows a THM casting fire. Now of course any THM can cast fire that has it equipped from CON but I feel SE would have normally done a demonstration with abilities that are native to the class they are showing. So I feel like they intentionally showed us THM casting fire to hint that they may be rearranging abilities around or at least THM will have access to them as "BLM".

Which screenshot?