Geomancer: Maybe someday?

[Jonah_Greymont]

Could be plausible as the third class for Stormblood. You see among the Ala Mhigan refugees NPCs called, 'Shamans,' which could be Geomancer. Granted there's a lot for hype for BLU/SAM/DNC as is, so I'm not sure if GEO could make it.

I'm not hanging much hope on having Geomancer with Stormblood, at least not in any initial phase of the expansion. I fully expect the second class to be Samurai personally, but it would not surprise me to see Blue Mage or even Beast Master as the second announcement. I just hope to see it in the near future, some iteration of it at least. I would also like to see a class that uses a bo staff as a weapon, though Oracle has pretty much all of its potential attributed to other classes other than the weapon itself.

[Jonah_Greymont]

Yes and no. -snip-

Thank you for expanding on that. I have some working knowledge of the magical nature of Eorzea, but not enough to explain it properly. As far as Geomancer goes, it could be anything from heretical conjurers to what Cidel mentions, a take from previous iterations of the class that could utilize Aether via other means. That's not far from what they did with Astrologian, which seems very similar to Oracle/Time Mage in the Tactics universe.

In addition to the magical abilities Cidel also mentioned, I would also like to see it wield a single handed axe or some other melee weapon (bo staff, perhaps?). Geomancer usually (but not always) falls into the hybrid melee/mage also occupied by Red Mage, and that's a niche I'd like to see them build up some. Just my opinion.

[Cidel]

I would also like to see it wield a single handed axe or some other melee weapon (bo staff, perhaps?). Geomancer usually (but not always) falls into the hybrid melee/mage also occupied by Red Mage, and that's a niche I'd like to see them build up some. Just my opinion.

I guess a Geomancer's weapon here is something that could be open to artistic liberties and interpretation, but I would like to think they would give them their signature "Bell" weapon that they are associated with and have used as makeshift maces. It would make the most sense to me.

[Jonah_Greymont]

I guess a Geomancer's weapon here is something that could be open to artistic liberties and interpretation, but I would like to think they would give them their signature "Bell" weapon that they are associated with and have used as makeshift maces. It would make the most sense to me.

If geomancer ever does make it to FFXIV, I expect your hope would be the route they'd take; I just always remember geomancer from FFT wielding axes or swords, and I thoroughly enjoyed the class there. Assuming they played a similar style, though, I imagine I could grow accustomed to the bell.

[Kazrah]

The lore component could be tweaked or altered as needed. My guess would be something along the lines of aether can be channeled from the same source, but manipulated through different means.

What I think the major snag here is actually on the mechanical end. Whenever anyone thinks "geomancer", they think of a caster who either works off the environment or manipulates it to their own end, and neither of those options really work in a game where spells ought to be balanced no matter what the circumstances of the fight are and where the concept of "elemental" damages and resistances are incredibly outdated and genuinely pointless.

In order to make geomancer within FFXIV, one simple truth must be understood: it would be nothing like how it was once known.

[cheolsu]

"Geomancers harness the power of nature itself, manifested in their different terrain attacks. Their damage potential rises exponentially by job level."

I've been playing Geomancer in FF3 lately and they're stupid op. ^^

[CaptainLagbeard]

I think the Conjurer class is technically a Geomancer... But since Square really doesn't seem to like the idea of the base classes and jobs, maybe Conjurer can get freed up.

[Brightshadow]

I've always felt geomancers would work perfectly in this game due to them fitting perfectly with the armory system (handbells) and the great lack of spellcasters in this game. Personally I like the "Wizard/Taoist" type geomancer than the physical one. And there are many niches they could fill. Perhaps a they can be a "channeled caster" with some unique weather spells.

[AmalonStar]

Geo for 14 would be interesting, could give them a combination of elemental aoe dots and weather spells for both dps as well as healing.

Tho on the stormblood page they list red Mage as one of the new jobs. As for the other new jobs personally from watching the teaser trailer I think they could be dancer and berserker. The way the girl was dressed and fought reminded me of the dancer job and the guy reminded me of a berserker with the way he was dressed and seemed to fight with more of a pure power and rage.

[Kazrah]

As for the other new jobs personally from watching the teaser trailer I think they could be dancer and berserker. The way the girl was dressed and fought reminded me of the dancer job and the guy reminded me of a berserker with the way he was dressed and seemed to fight with more of a pure power and rage.

Yoshi already confirmed them to be two monks fighting, which was more intended to reinforce that the expansion takes place in Ala Mhigo, where monks come from.

When I made my concept for Geomancer, I built it as a dps around the Wu Xing, which fit perfectly with the Taoist theme that is often seen with the job. The rotation would be much like the Monk rotation, but instead set up where using one spell would increase the damage of the next spell of the next element in the cycle with the objective of maintaining dots and ground effects while dishing out some level of burst.

As all that would direct the job toward a more Eastern theme, the origin could be placed to Othard, which would also explain the background lore to it as a possibility of Othardians finding an alternative route to the channeling and manipulation of elemental energies compared to how they are through Eorzean Conjurers and White Mages.