New Jobs in 4.0, perhaps this pic has some hints

[Jonnycbad]

Back in the Tanaka era, SE released this table. It's a list of classes that were eventually going to be released (before they eventually decided to make it more "Final Fantasy-ish" by adding classic FF jobs.



Some things were changed, like I guess Archer(Bow) and Bard(Music) were merged into ARR's Bard class, and Sword+Shield are GLD/PLD rather than a dedicated 'Sentinel' class. We also don't have a Freelancer/Unarmed class here--it's impossible to unequip a mainhand weapon.

Though Astrologian and Dark Knight weapons are not listed here, though we could argue 'Dark Arts' probably became Ninjutsu, and Mysticism probably become Astromancy', perhaps we could glean from these a few hints towards general directionality of future jobs?

Red Mages began being associated with primarily fencing swords from FFXI (prior, they just equipped standard, low and mid level swords. Since there are no fencing weapons in FFXIV currently, there will likely be a Red Mage that uses fencing swords soon enough. Blue Mage was hinted at as well from an event recently. Likely that if they're included, they will be a club or whip wielding class. Remember, Blue Mage was not -always- a sword fighter (FF5-swords/daggers, FF6-staff, FF8-whip, FF9-fork, FF10-spear, FF11-scimitars), so really they could wield anything SE wants them to, and curved swords are in-game as GLD/PLD weapons already.

Thoughts?

[Maero]

Interesting chart there. Dark Arts, well DK uses it so not sure how it fits here.
I think the chart was more likely very early on and they have since then decided to go a different route for classes and future jobs.
We seen that when Muskateer which many figured we would have but ended up with machinist instead. So i guess they are not afraid to change things up from previous FF games.
I really think Blu Mage will be the next job added, perhaps with Samurai?
In all honesty i dunno why so many want Samurai so much, i could care less and would rather see dancer

[FunkyBunch]

I want to see a tank with a two handed shield that he just bashes people with.

[Ersahi]

Honestly I think they extracted everything of value from the ffxiv 1.0 and are working from thier own template now.

Red mage, sam, and blu mage are probably in the queue, maybe with another healer and dancer as well.

[Marxam]

I want to see a tank with a two handed shield that he just bashes people with.

[FunkyBunch]

Close, that's two one handed shields, but hilarious.
He could have moves like Shield Clap. Battering Ram. Etc.

I was thinking one ENORMOUS shield.

[Shyle]

In all honesty i dunno why so many want Samurai so much, i could care less and would rather see dancer

I want samurai because I want a 2h sword dps class (I've always liked greatsword based dps classes in other MMO's). And I always like SAM in FFXI, though I"m sure Yoshi will bastardize the class from previous versions.

[AylmerOfFamfrit]

I loved dancer in ffxi and sam but one was tp based and the other was a dps with dmg mitigating moves in the even of emergency tanking. Some of the unique sounding jobs on the list would be cool to implement.

[AylmerOfFamfrit]

I loved dancer in ffxi and sam but one was tp based and the other was a dps with dmg mitigating moves in the even of emergency tanking. Some of the unique sounding jobs on the list would be cool to implement.

[Nephisto]

I'm pretty sure Samurai will be the next tank. I hope for a DPS, but I don't think it will be that, because with a DPS Samurai and a new tank using probably sword too, at least some sort of big blade, the two jobs will not be enough different. The next DPS will probably be Red Mage, and it would be nice if it's a melee DPS, using magic sword, some kind of magic fencer. For the Healer, maybe Dancer, but I don't play healer, so I don't have any wish for that kind of job.