Roles for Samurai, Red Mage, Dancer

[Rin_Sato]

As the devs stated in a recent Q&A:
We also originally envisioned dancer to be a support-type job, but it turned out to be really good for soloing.

Does anyone have a source on this?

[Welsper59]

Does anyone have a source on this?

Summary breakdown

Actual AMA

Have fun. It's a pretty interesting read.

EDIT: Interesting in the sense that a lot of the questions pertain to matters of current players lol. There's still some old school questions though, like with crafting confirmation (assuming anyone still recalls the directional stuff) and stuff like that DNC statement. Ooh Necromancer mention... just noticed I missed that one.

[Dumbledoremd]

We need a magic ranged dps when was the last one of those

[ADVSS]

We need a magic ranged dps when was the last one of those

summoner/arcanist brand new to the game in 2.0, also brought scholar or else the 1 and only healer till 3.0 wouldve been white mage. Not in beta, thats for sure....thm could use cleric stance in beta, it was cray

[SendohJin]

We need a magic ranged dps when was the last one of those

no, we don't. we have two now which is balanced with the number of non-magic ranged DPS. and if you split the jobs into 4 groups, we have 3 tanks 3 healers 3 melee DPS 4 ranged DPS, the last thing we need are more ranged DPS.

[Dumbledoremd]

We just got drk mch ast i hope we get a ranged magic dps soon

[Allistar]

bump...continue the discussion

[LunaFaye]

He did mention in one of his interview's that the 4.0 expansion will not include 3 new jobs again. But just in case we are going by that I would suggest making them all 3 dps. We don't need another tank or healer, but we do need some new dps jobs since it's getting old and boring. With that being said, I would like to see new and creative jobs not some classes/jobs taken from the older series and revamping them.

[shao32]

We don't need another tank or healer, but we do need some new dps jobs since it's getting old and boring.

i start to belive everyone say this or something similiar just want trolling a little in the forums.

Zarcoft no, there are not any of this jobs confirmed yet, in october in the fanfest when they release some info about the 4.0 meaby thy show the new jobs, until that red mage and samura are just the most wanted jobs right now and after the devs event where yoship npc say "samurai or redmage?" well you know both for know have the most chances to become the new jobs.

[HighMarshal]

It could be that the Samurai is a melee DPS.

The Red Mage could be a DPS/Healer with a mechanic that works like the fire/ice mechanic for BLM. Cast healing spells and you get a buff that makes your healing spells better and your dps spells worse.

The Dancer could be a dual weld evade tank with high dodge and evade.

Just a thought I had.