New Class Speculations

[RobbieH]

Maybe "casting" like Cyan's Bushido

That was essentially casting

Auron in FFX lso has Bushido, i didn't play 6 but i guess it's the same.

They're technically casting but i see them as casting buffs so i don't actually look at them as casting skills such as Fire, Ice etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9bdj0_Fn_w

By caster I think he was meaning charge time for the skills, like what Gauss Barrel and (forget bards skill) did to their skills. Least that is how I took it.

Yeah i guess that's what he meant, by bad and thank you.

[AlphaFox]

Caster melee would be Red Mage not samurai, SE would deviate from what Samurai has always been if they made is caster melee, i don't even know of any caster skill from Samurai.

I assume the new classes will be Samurai and Red Mage, could also be Blue Mage and Red Mage but i doubt it.

I'm pretty sure it'll be Samurai and Red Mage.

And could be likely they would be both DPS (Samurai as STR and Red Mage as INT DPS), no point on adding another Greatsword Tank, and two more DPS variety would bring a lot of possibilities on party composition.

By caster I think he was meaning charge time for the skills, like what Gauss Barrel and (forget bards skill) did to their skills. Least that is how I took it.

[shao32]

And could be likely they would be both DPS (Samurai as STR and Red Mage as INT DPS), no point on adding another Greatsword Tank, and two more DPS variety would bring a lot of possibilities on party composition.

that would be a suicide move from SE, ninja was really bad for duty finder queues when release, if you add 2 of the most beloved jobs in to one role in this case DPS you go to kill complety the duty finder for a very long time.

if they add SAM and RDM to dps they don't go to release it at the same time for sure.

[KitingGenbu]

i don't even know of any caster skill from Samurai.

To be fair though, not many ranged physical classes have ever had 'charged' actions either until 3.0, so I wouldn't put it beyond the dev team to get samurai a stance that allows actions to be charged to execute more damage.

If samurai is implemented, I am kind of leaning more towards it being a tank since samurai in FFXI did have a lot of tank-like passives/abilities.

[Tracewood]

If they end up making Samurai DPS, I'd like to see skillchains as part of it's weaponry. With the right combos you could do serious damage, but chances are I can see them making it a tank class so the skillchains would probably be used to gain enmity. If it's a DPS, I'd like them to model it after the MNK class, I know it's a bias on my part, but positionals + skillchains would make it a job that requires to pay attention and master otherwise your damage output will be somewhat subpar.

Red Mage would make an interesting DPS, but probably more as a rune fencer/caster class. Like, give us the option to play as a caster DPS or up close DPS. That will be it's true hybrid for this game. We could have healing rune spells like dancer's Drain Samba where all party members will regen HP for a short duration or something. Or they could make it a melee healer, similar to Dancer without the dancing. Though I think there are some fights that might make it pretty difficult (Ifrit EX) to pull that off, so they might make it another caster.

As much as I want Blue Mage and Beastmaster to be jobs... Blue Mage is going to be tough, learning spells and such... but they could get creative with the questline where you travel to certain parts of Eorzea and "absorb" via a job ability. You know those leves where you have to weaken the enemy and /soothe it? It'd be similar, but instead of /soothe, you would have an ability to "assimilate" the enemy's essence into your body. They'd be actual duties too so players don't get ahead of themselves and overgrind where they could defeat their target with an autoattack or a couple hits.

Beast Master would make a fun pet DPS, I'd probably rock that if they don't over bloat it with skills like they did with MCH.

[Cynric]

I just hope Sam is a dps kind of tired of all the sword jobs being tanks. Been waiting for sword dps forever xD

[Morningstar1337]

I just hope Sam is a dps kind of tired of all the sword jobs being tanks. Been waiting for sword dps forever xD

Ninja says hi :P

[EdwinLi]

I wait for the day when Gunblade DPS Job arrives once we begin moving towards the Garlean Empire or once we can enter the Garlean Empire.

[Rawrz]

Bluuuuuue Mage support DPS. Less about mana TP, more about survive ability. :C

[Cynric]

Ninja says hi :P

Ninja doesn't use a sword and doesn't play like a class that uses a sword would. You could base that on a technicality by saying some of the weapons look like swords however some of them also look like axes. Does that mean we have a dual wielding axe job if you use titan cleavers? No still a dagger job :x.plus ninjutsu is meh