Will we ever see Ranger or Samurai?

[Rekujin]

I know I won't get a direct answer from Yoshi, but I was hoping for a little tease at least? what does the community think about this?

I absolutely loved those classes in FFXI and I would ditch my BRD for RNG almost instantly....

Also... we could really use another two-handed melee DPS class in my honest opinion, especially for those of us that don't like Dragoon or were dissapointed with DRK being a tank. (I like DRK as tank now, it grew on me)

Thoughts?

[AlphaFox]

I'll be honest, I do have hopes for Samurai but I base that off of the first level 60 dungeon. The first boss, his movements, his stance remind me of a Samurai, but I could also just be overly hopeful. I do agree I would love an actual sword class that didn't involve tanking. Redmage is probably my last hope if they include rapiers.

[Obysuca]

I do agree I would love an actual sword class that didn't involve tanking.

Same. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm kind of tired of SE's thinking in XIV "Does it have a sword or heavy armor? Then it's a tank!" -.- I'd love to have a sword using or heavy armor wearing melee

[Khalithar]

The first boss, his movements, his stance remind me of a Samurai, but I could also just be overly hopeful.

I think that stance was meant as an alternate stance for two handed sword for drk. I wish we'd gotten that battle stance instead of drk's current one, I really don't like it.

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Well the game right now has what? 3 tanks, 3 healers, 4 ranged dps (2 magical, 2 physical), and 3 melee dps (all physical). If they wanted to even it out they'd have to add another tank, another healer, and another melee dps class. Only things I can think of offhand that would differentiate, make a "ranged" tank like swtor has, a healer that specializes in hots, and a melee dps with a two handed weapon or one that uses melee and magic together.

[Zodiar]

Probably not until 4.0

[PArcher]

Ranger? Probably no. A mobile ranged DPS just won't work in the game. Which is why BRD and MCH both now have cast bars even with lower overall DPS.

Samurai? Maybe it'll be the next tank job (they said the 3.0 tank was either going to be DRK or SAM, and they chose DRK, so please look forward to it)

[thunderbreak]

Ranger? Probably no. A mobile ranged DPS just won't work in the game. Which is why BRD and MCH both now have cast bars even with lower overall DPS.

Samurai? Maybe it'll be the next tank job (they said the 3.0 tank was either going to be DRK or SAM, and they chose DRK, so please look forward to it)

Yoshi P said if Samurai makes it to FF14 it'll probably be a DPS class. Apparently the one wearing heavy armors is "Shogun"...

[HighMarshal]

Yoshi P said if Samurai makes it to FF14 it'll probably be a DPS class. Apparently the one wearing heavy armors is "Shogun"...

That kind of makes it sound like a base class with Shogun being a job it can get with a DPS option job in addition.

[silentwindfr]

That kind of makes it sound like a base class with Shogun being a job it can get with a DPS option job in addition.

you did miss the part where they have said no more class added, i think you must accept the fact that samurai will and must'nt be a tank. mostly because it will be redundant with warrior and dark knight.

ranger will probably never come, sorry.

As others have said, we won't get Ranger. BRD essentially took the Ranger role (their base class is "Archer", which is essentially the same thing).

Samurai is very likely. It was hugely popular in FFXI, just like NIN, and they gave us NIN because of that popularity. So I wouldn't be surprised to see Samurai in 4.0

ninja was release because of the lack of "scout" jobs. since in FF series the scout are ninja or thief it was fast decided.
the next one coming will probably be red mage and dancer sadly. i don't see them add a new tank before a bit. add a new tank will not make the tank more present.

and yoshida want to add a melee mage, dancer fit perfectly with ala migho lore then it's likely to come. other point about the red mage, ilbert use a fire sword strike hinting in this direction. since he is from ala migho.

dancer will probably be a melee healer and red mage a melee mage.

[Daralii]

ninja was release because of the lack of "scout" jobs. since in FF series the scout are ninja or thief it was fast decided.
the next one coming will probably be red mage and dancer sadly. i don't see them add a new tank before a bit. add a new tank will not make the tank more present.

and yoshida want to add a melee mage, dancer fit perfectly with ala migho lore then it's likely to come. other point about the red mage, ilbert use a fire sword strike hinting in this direction. since he is from ala migho.

dancer will probably be a melee healer and red mage a melee mage.

Dancer could also be a melee support, though I can't imagine what kind of offensive stuff you could give them without creating a lot of overlap with monks.