Hints at Blue Mage in the level 60 ALC quest?

[Cilia]

As long as we're talking classes we'd like added, I never played ff11 at all but I read about it's Rune Knight and thought it sounded awesom. Also, the day the add Samurai will benthe day I retier my lance once and for all.

Rune Knight is just a variant of Mystic Knight, a.k.a. Sword Mage. If they do add it it'll probably be a tank class.

... but good news, chances of Samurai being the next tank class are pretty high! It was a tossup between Dark Knight and Samurai for being in 3.0, and they decided on Dark Knight because they didn't want to put in an Eastern-culture heavy class so soon after NIN. We already have Doma (Eorzea!Japan), so it's just a matter of waiting for Samurai refugees to arrive or going there ourselves...

If we're going to talk classes we'd like, again, I don't particularly care, but...

Red Mage would be cool, being the only class from the original Final Fantasy not yet represented. That said, I can't see how it would work in XIV since it's intended to be a mix of White and Black Mage, both of which are already in-game and eclipse Red Mage in terms of sheer power on either axis. It's a valuable class in old-school RPGs, but I can't see how they would implement it with XIV's strict combat roles.

Geomancer would also be neat as a caster DPS. Be interesting to see how they implement it.

If not Samurai, then I'd like Viking to be the next tank job. It's not the most iconic, but it's still pretty cool and not hard to design IMO. Very similar to WAR though.

Blue Mage, obviously, is one of my most desired options. Being iconic to Final Fantasy fans as well as one of the few classes the franchise can truly call its own, it's something they almost have to implement in the future.

For healing jobs, something like Druid or Shaman would be neat, but given CNJ / WHM already have elements of those classes I don't see how that would happen. Not particularly attached to those classes, either.

Beyond that, I'd like to see what the XIV team can cook up.

[Neophyte]

For healing jobs, something like Druid or Shaman would be neat, but given CNJ / WHM already have elements of those classes I don't see how that would happen. Not particularly attached to those classes, either.

Just tyi, in german translation the CNJ is already called 'Druide', which means 'druid' (yeah, that was hard to guess).
Which isn't to inappropiate, considering "Conjurer" indicates something like 'general magic' and in- or evocations (or even 'summoning' ;D) and 'druid' fits into the water/wind/nature-theme of CNJ.

But a more tribal class would be nice indeed. Whereby this might be a good idea for implementing blue mage, too, as a caster studying the way of beast tribes and monsters.
Perhabs by introducing a new beast tribe as well, based on the Ronsos' Lancet-ability, teaching the WoL as a first 'human' in several 1000 years their ways of copyright infringement.