So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

[Reaperking386]

I am calling that the Spider-Man shirt will be beast master oriented or blue mage oriented. All the shirts have been blunt and obvious. The Sam rami theory is so far out there. I believe it is due to Spider-Man getting his powers from a spider like blue mage or using animal powers to fight.

(I hate the idea of it, but it is the most sound idea)

[ErikMynhier]

I am calling that the Spider-Man shirt will be beast master oriented or blue mage oriented. All the shirts have been blunt and obvious. The Sam rami theory is so far out there. I believe it is due to Spider-Man getting his powers from a spider like blue mage or using animal powers to fight.

(I hate the idea of it, but it is the most sound idea)

They may merge Beast Master and Blue Mage like they did with Ranger and Bard. I see them doing that a lot from here on out as the role system makes many classic stand alone jobs impossible.

[Vexander]

They may merge Beast Master and Blue Mage like they did with Ranger and Bard. I see them doing that a lot from here on out as the role system makes many classic stand alone jobs impossible.

I wonder if that means BLU would be a pet class?

[Reaperking386]

It is possible...Yoshi did mention he was looking into another pet job class.

[ErikMynhier]

I wonder if that means BLU would be a pet class?

Obviously I'm no DEV, but if it were me, I would make it a pet class with a few different like the other pet classes. I would make BLU a tank or dps, whip, and force the lore as to be like some real martial traditions where they take the forms of beasts in their fighting styles to account for non-pet skills (a la Ruin), saying they learn to fight like the beasts that they spend so much time with. Make his Lv-50 skill merge with his pets for 10 secs or so, each one offering different bonuses, more agro, higher crit, and so on.

That would take a popular job that would be otherwise to unfocused for FFXIV (Blue Mage), and add some bits and pieces from another lesser but still popular job that is also to nitch (Beastmanster), and an even lesser job that would have no prayer of getting in (Morpher).

3 nitch classes into a solid fun job. I see the same thing happening for things in the future like Geomancer or Sage for example. They already did it with Bard (Ranger+Bard), Ninja (Ninja+Thief+Assassin) and Astrologian (Time Mage+Trickster), and from the looks of it Red Mage (Red Mage+Rune Fencer) as well.

[Iromi]

When I saw this trailer I thought Dancer when I saw her cloth sleeve and even more so when I saw her attack with it. My FFT-sense went off and there was no going back for me. I am 100% sure she is a Dancer, that said I am not sure if WE will get to be dancers though.

Same. Everything about it said "Tactics!!!" to me. It was the cloth sleeve that fully convinced me. Very interesting how she uses it to slash then puts it in her bracers again

I always figured the girl in the trailer was Yda. She could be hiding her true job along with her face. So who knows? Alisaie was an interesting surprise.

Yup. If not Yda then it could be her sister (mentioned she has one in the lore book)

[ErikMynhier]

Yup. If not Yda then it could be her sister (mentioned she has one in the lore book)

Did you also notice the new monk gear looks like a blue version of the FFT monk outfit? I hope as a nod to 3.x and FFT all the new AF gear is based off the Tactics gear. One last hoora before we move into FFVI territory.

My money is on the sister. If you read the lore book her mention is pretty suspicious. They make it a point to say they left Ala Mhigo together then it doesn't mention her again. Hard to explain, just felt like a set up for me.

[Iromi]

Did you also notice the new monk gear looks like a blue version of the FFT monk outfit? I hope as a nod to 3.x and FFT all the new AF gear is based off the Tactics gear. One last hoora before we move into FFVI territory.

My money is on the sister. If you read the lore book her mention is pretty suspicious. They make it a point to say they left Ala Mhigo together then it doesn't mention her again. Hard to explain, just felt like a set up for me.

Yup! The fact that they mention her alone tells me that we have not seen the last of her. I remember at Vegas fan fest when Koji Fox was asked about her and why Yda's sister is mentioned in the lore book, he made a funny surprised face

Yes I noticed that also, about the MNK gear looking like FFT Seeing as how he has Matsuno on board making an Ivalice themed raid, perhaps he influenced it a bit as well!

[Vexander]

Obviously I'm no DEV, but if it were me, I would make it a pet class with a few different like the other pet classes. I would make BLU a tank or dps, whip, and force the lore as to be like some real martial traditions where they take the forms of beasts in their fighting styles to account for non-pet skills (a la Ruin), saying they learn to fight like the beasts that they spend so much time with. Make his Lv-50 skill merge with his pets for 10 secs or so, each one offering different bonuses, more agro, higher crit, and so on.

That would take a popular job that would be otherwise to unfocused for FFXIV (Blue Mage), and add some bits and pieces from another lesser but still popular job that is also to nitch (Beastmanster), and an even lesser job that would have no prayer of getting in (Morpher).

3 nitch classes into a solid fun job. I see the same thing happening for things in the future like Geomancer or Sage for example. They already did it with Bard (Ranger+Bard), Ninja (Ninja+Thief+Assassin) and Astrologian (Time Mage+Trickster), and from the looks of it Red Mage (Red Mage+Rune Fencer) as well.

Personally I'd like that. I'd just hope the morphing is a bit like a stance; active until turned off. A cooldown morph would be lame unless it was some kind of improved version.

[Alacran]

This is a theory i do not have much faith in. I only put it forth due to the amount of coincidences i feel exist between the the hint, series and crossover event.

This is Emma Guzman she is an Alchemist in a anime show called Honoo No Kokuin also known as Garo.

(fyi... the strings are not always blue...)

A scene of her using a peculiar weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxKuSn0n6tM

With the Spiderman t-shirt, spider webber comments, and Garo crossover, i feel that there is a very small (microscopic) chance that a version of Alchemist and or Exorcist (Chemist having been a combat class before in the FFT series, "Return to Ivalice") may be something to consider.

While it was stated that a focus was being placed on more traditional aspects of past FF jobs, i feel that may have been mostly in reference to Red Mage and as such not wholly encompassing their design concept for all 4.0 job implementation.

Emma fights with her Spindle Gun(?) by laying fields in which the enemy is ensnared in, once bound the target is then ripped apart by the "strings" of her weapon inflicting major damage. This process is helped along by using charms, and tools to weaken and debuff the enemy before the last snares are placed and subsequently pulled taut.

Again i don't truly think this to be wholly viable, just a few things that seemed to over lap in my head the closer we get StormBlood.