Artifact Armors!

[Amineri]

I'd hazard that the "dark armor" is related to the Eorzean deity Rhalgr, the Destroyer:

Rhalgr, the Destroyer
Rhalgr, breaker of worlds, is the god of destruction and guardian deity of the now fallen nation of Ala Mhigo.
He commands the element of lightning and is associated with the eigth moon of the Eorzean calendar. Rhalgr is the father of both Byregot and Halone, and serves as attendant to Nymeia.
He is most often depicted as a magi carrying a staff of bronze. His symbol is the streaking meteor.

Also, the original lancers guild was in Ala Mhigo, so I think we might be seeing some of the Ala Mhigan style seeping back to create the job associated with Lancer.

[viion]

The shield is just sideways, you can tell from the pattern.

The dark knight is Lancer, you can see the entire lance from holding it left and then the bace of the lancer down near the archer. The top end that is included in the armors back spikes is also a handle, its the only one that is pole and silver.

Really like Pugs knuckles though being lions with wings on them, reminds me of FF8.

[Zahak]

Dragoon how I long for thee....I'm hoping bards can just pull out their harps and play them in the streets :P

[Holland]

The art looks amazing!

I hope how the Dragoon is set up in the art is a hint to Jump!.

The White Mage and Black Mage Artifacts look very good! Cant wait for jobs!~

[Zahak]

Yea the dragoons pose looks very cool. I want /dragoon pose!

[Luluna]

They look sweet, i feel the Roe looks more like a Beastmaster looking at his outfit, the fur and Horned hat but im probably wrong >.> lol

[Colino]

The Dragoon just made me jizz my pants

[Zantetsuken]

Interesting!

What I thought was DRK back in the concept art looks like it's actually DRG!

My take:

ARC > Bard(really cool idea)
LNC > Dragoon
GLD > Paladin
CON > Black Mage
THM > White Mage
PGL > Monk (awesome wolf-head weapons!)
MRD > likely Berserker, but could be Beastmaster

color me excited.

[Betelgeuzah]

Dragoon looks so similar to Kain that it hurts.

He was kinda lawful chaos-type so it's not surprising that they are making the Job a bit more on the evil side this time too, if that's where they drew their inspiration from.

ARC > BRD

Unless "Bard" in this game is a DD, the problem of ranged-centric encounters has been solved.

CON > WHM
THM > BLM

Let's not kid ourselves.

[Zantetsuken]

CON > WHM
THM > BLM

Let's not kid ourselves.

I'm guessing it's the other way around:

THM > WHM
CON > BLM

As all class skills will be re-evaluated, our best bet is to go by the names and general concepts of the classes:

Conjurer: One who summons. This is a class heavily focused on elemental power, so BLM seems to be the natural outgrowth.

Thaumaturge: A performer of miracles or magic feats - often associated with healing. FFXIV put a life-death/astral-umbral twist on Thaumaturgery, but people tend to only focus on the death side of it.