New Class Speculations

[Gabrielleblanc]

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Monk and Nin should never share gear, they have different main stat, Sam and DRG sharing an armor type makes sense due to the fact that unless Samurai is a dex based dps in which case it will share with Ninja, splitting gear like they did with Ninja and Brd/mch is the dumbest thing I have seen yet, same stat priority same design on gear with a slightly different shade. Monk though I would hate to see them in "mail" armor like DRG.

[loreleidiangelo]

I'd love Dancer if it were much more support-oriented in it's downtime and less about contributing DPS. A channeling healer, maybe? Your heals only channel as long as you're "dancing"? Or maybe even different "dances" kind of like BRD songs that alter their healing effects.

Don't let me down, SE!

[EdwinLi]

If we can't have SAM as a STR melee DPS type and SAM end up as another Tank. I would prefer the next STR DPS to be Gunblade Job as we are getting closer to the Garlean Empire now assuming 4.0 is Ala Mhigo.

With Gunblade Job as a Melee DPS we can even have Lion Heart as our LB3 or a more single target style Blasting Zone.

[Morningstar1337]

If we can't have SAM as a STR melee DPS type and SAM end up as another Tank. I would prefer the next STR Tank to be Gunblade Job as we are getting closer to the Garlean Empire now assuming 4.0 is Ala Mhigo.

With Gunblade Job as a Melee DPS we can even have Lion Heart as our LB3 or a more single target style Blasting Zone.

It seems like any Job that uses RWBY style weapons (Yes I know that the concept didn't start there but in Final Fantasy, but it seem to epitomize that idea more then Final Fantasy) would be a Melee/Ranged by default (not like Bard and Machinist, but still close tot hose two) and unless they make Bind viable or ease on positioning mechanics (though that seem to be a player thing anyway), a Ranged Tank would run into some issues.

On the other hand, Tanks are associated with stances, so it might still be possible if the Tank stance turns ranged attacks into Melee and the DPS stance turned melee attacks into ranged.

[EdwinLi]

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Sorry there was a typo in my comment being"STR Tank" is actually "STR DPS". Was a bit out of it when typing the comment since I am grinding my anima weapon mats.

On topic:
I just personally picture Gunblade Job more as a Melee DPS over a Tank since despite how the game always picture Gunblade users in Tankish armor they attack more aggressively like DPS instead of defensively.

[Morningstar1337]

On topic:
I just personally picture Gunblade Job more as a Melee DPS over a Tank since despite how the game always picture Gunblade users in Tankish armor they attack more aggressively like DPS instead of defensively.

Genrealy speaking. This is a Correlation =/= Causation thing. The only people in this game with Gunblaes were Garlean legati, an in a refernce to XII's Arcadian Judges, ALL of them have armor. Menawhile in other Games that have Gunblade (read: VII and XIII) their wielders are not wearing metal armor (well Lightning in XIII-2 was an exception), so having Gunblade users as DPS classes as you mentioned does seem a little more likely.

[Spawnie]

i want beastmaster, puppeteer and some new gathering/crafting classes XD

[Kohta]

Dancer and Haste as Party Buff.

[Mycow8me]

I just want a reaper class (great scythe) that uses dark magic... Maybe since it obviously can't be Dark knight anymore... A Void knight or something using void magic?

Dunno why they haven't put in a gunblade class yet in either ffxi or ffxiv.

[EdwinLi]

Dunno why they haven't put in a gunblade class yet in either ffxi or ffxiv either.

Well it too late for FFXI but I guess it may have been due to the theme of the lands the game had during its day with no establishment of how a Gunblade Job may work.

For FF14 sometime back during 2.0 release there was a question about releasing a Gunblade Job and Yoshi-p only response was that he was saving it for when we begin progressing into Garlean Empire or once we enter the Garlean Empire. Something to do with the Gunblade Job being tied to the Garleans by lore already so he felt it should be saved for that time. Though that was 3 years ago so things could have changed and my memory is a bit fuzzy on the details.