Choose The Next Three Jobs for 4.0

[Cidel]

We won't get two tanks.
This is not the lack of tanks problem, that queues are long or something

It is a role problem. Playing tank is too much for more casual players, especially when it comes to raids or Extreme trials.
Besides, we have composition 1 tank, 1 healer, 2 dps - having equal amount of tanks, healers and dps will only give us (us -> tanks by heart) more choice, what to spam expert roulette with.

Eventually more bad tanks, that wanted to have Red Mage as tank, spaming forums with "RDM tank pl0x" and then suddenly realized, that tanking is not what they wanted, spaming forums with "fix RDM to dps pl0x".

I agree with this sentiment. The devs trying to entice people into the least-played role by placing a frequently-requested job in it is a poor way of incentivizing more people to play that role- you instead end up with people playing that role poorly (see DPS DRKs whining, early HW) and just stoked to be playing their favorite job. This makes me very uneasy about what XIV's devs might do with popular jobs like Red Mage and Blue Mage that are known for being flexible in past iterations.

On a somewhat related note I'm also not sure if the devs can feasibly make healer Dancers work. There's so much fundamental changes and balancing they'd probably have to make for a job that can main-heal and stay in melee range, and then the inevitable healer DPS arguments will pop up, among other things. It really just sounds like more work than what the devs have been known to bother with.

[Ceasaria]

In FF XIII, there are some birds monsters dancers DPS who use "Last Dance" as attack and one type of this bird is a dancer support who inflict debuff to our team with "Disastrous Dance" and can buff his team.
i think it could fit well with Doma and maybe we will see these monsters in one of the next expansion.

[Yuni_Queen]

maybe we will see these monsters in one of the next expansion.

Please no. i hated those douchebags.

[Yasuhiro]

Please no. i hated those douchebags.

You might see them in game you know one day since XIV loves to borrow models from last 3 FF's
They might be easier to kill in this game though, remember how Dreadnought was a boss in XIII? just a regular enemy now.

[Khalithar]

I agree with this sentiment. The devs trying to entice people into the least-played role by placing a frequently-requested job in it is a poor way of incentivizing more people to play that role- you instead end up with people playing that role poorly (see DPS DRKs whining, early HW) and just stoked to be playing their favorite job.

That's true, but there is also the other end of the spectrum, there might be able who will be willing to get good at tanking because they really like a new tanking job. This is purely anecdotal evidence and obviously won't apply to everyone, but to use an example from my own personal experience, I had a friend who was never in to tanking at all, didn't like the role or wanted the responsibility.

But while we were playing WoW together, once the Death Knight came out he suddenly got really in to tanking and actually got really good at it. Now again, this won't apply to everyone, but I'm sure there are some individuals just waiting for the right class to come out before they try tanking.

On a somewhat related note I'm also not sure if the devs can feasibly make healer Dancers work. There's so much fundamental changes and balancing they'd probably have to make for a job that can main-heal and stay in melee range, and then the inevitable healer DPS arguments will pop up, among other things. It really just sounds like more work than what the devs have been known to bother with.

I don't know about it needing to be in melee range, the only experience I have with Dancer though is in the first Final Fantasy Tactics, in that game she could stand anywhere on the field and just dance to debuff her enemies without being anywhere near harm's range since the dances had unlimited range and automatically hit all enemies, it was awesome.

[Laerune]

I hope the future classes will be fresh and different from the current ones.

[Bulwyf]

I want Samurai as the first class to be either DPS or Tank. And if it has to be one role then DPS.

[Asuras]

I wouldn't mind another gathering profession called a Collector. Instead of simply being a mat bot for crafting professions, Collectors can venture out to collect relics that combine into sets to create unique glamours and heirlooms (for housing). The system would be similar to collectibles in other games such as Rift and Everquest; I think it would work pretty well in FFXIV (with cards and people crazy-farming for bird whistles and all that).

[Reiryuu]

I'm going to go with

Samurai (DPS)

At this point I really think SAM has to be in there. The leaked/spoiler/mistake/tease in that one live letter and the talks about it have kind of really hinted that it's in development and it seems to make sense for the next location so... In fact, I would not be surprised if it is the first job announced or the job the derplander or whatever his name is in the trailers changes into on said trailer.

Mystic Knight / Rune Knight/Fencer (Tank)

I'm thinking more like Ceres and General Leo (FF6), but the Mystic Swordsman (FF5) also has a turban and an Eastern theme to it. Though the Mystic Swordsman was much more a dps than a tank if I recall correctly, though I think it could work as a tank.

Seer (Healer)
I mean they did kind of tease Ninja in the main story quests... so why not?




I would die to see RDM/Spellblade in the next expansion, but I'm really not going to hold my breath for it.

[Reiryuu]

On a somewhat related note I'm also not sure if the devs can feasibly make healer Dancers work. There's so much fundamental changes and balancing they'd probably have to make for a job that can main-heal and stay in melee range, and then the inevitable healer DPS arguments will pop up, among other things. It really just sounds like more work than what the devs have been known to bother with.

I imagined a possibility of DNC being a mid-range job with their main weapon being a ribbon (weavers get a weapon to craft now! =p). So they wouldn't have the range of a bard, say, but they'd be out of melee range.