Quote Originally Posted by Vydos View Post
My issue with the entire Blue mage discussion probability, is that I can only see it become a dps. And I doubt they want to further increase the dps classes pool, considering RDM is the dps class for the expansion. Blue mage as healer/support seems very odd. I can maybe see it as tank. Unless they start walking away from the holy trinity system. And create a hybrid class.

Dancer as healer/buffer is more likely. Especially if it's a class related to ala mhigo. But again, so can be blue mage. There are so many mixed signals that it's hard for me to 100% say "oh it's going to be this!".

I personally think Yoshi-p is at least doing a good job at making us guess and second guess ourselves. Props to that, it will only make the eventual unveiling all the sweeter.
Having either 4 tanks, or 4 healers isn't going to change up those roles as much as another option for dps.

Think about RDM and the introduction of all the other jobs, with RDM we currently have 3 on everything but BRD/MCH

Tanks, WAR/PLD/DRK

Healer, WHM/SCH/AST

Melee DPS, NIN/DRG/MNK

Range DPS, BRD/MCH

Magic DPS RDM/BLM/SMN

What's actually missing is a new range DPS which would actually create an equal ratio with each job type in the game currently. When they commented that RDM would be closer to BLM/SMN I felt like this was a hint as to what the next job was going to be, another range.

With that said, there are two ways they can do this, they either add a gunslinger like job, two gun, bang bang or they introduce Beast Master whom uses Whips for their range attack and make the whip length the same as a range attack lol.

At this point it would be surprising if the other job was tank or healer, if there are two it's possible they could over-saturate those roles making it harder to balance them compared to DPS which is easier because each can have it's own playstyle without stepping on the toes of other job. But the current issue is if you look at 3.4, Astrologist is pretty much leaving the other 2 healers in the dust with their buff and the difference in skill opportunity is pretty skewed at this point in time that if they were to introduce another healer, all it would do is make WHM harder to keep relevant. It would be easier to keep a healer role relevant by keeping it at 3 since the content in question would only leave 1 of that role type out, but when you add another now you leave 2 of the role out on top of potentially making 1 irrelevant because of how well the other two perform.

In a way the 3/3/3 ratio helps to keep each job type balanced since they can play off one another, you wouldn't want to use the same jobs with certain content and can be more flexible with it, 2 tanks, 2 healers, 4 dps. for 24 man raids that's currently 3 tanks, 6 healers and 15 DPS. So DPS honestly have nothing to worry about by just having that type added to the game compared to another tank/healer.

However yes, there is a semi imbalance atm since to an extent range/magic are consider the same compared to DPS, so it is possible the job could be a melee DPS like Blue Mage, since they could be a mage that plays close range. In total the pool of jobs normally pulled in most content tends to be either tank/healer/melee/range, 2 tanks/ 2 healers / 2 melee / 2 range and 1 tank /2 healers / 5 DPS of random assortment usually 2/2 with 1 being added to either range or melee.

We'll find out in a little over a month though but when thinking about what the job could be, a thought to keep in mind is that it will possibly be something that won't ruin the current Duty Finder balance and saying that I am now leaning more towards a melee job unless they go ahead and introduce a range DPS that doesn't have support mechanics like BRD/MCH but rather DPS potential relative to the current melee DPS in which they could then fill the role of a melee DPS rather than be considered range in DF.