Scout, Caster, Pet. Which class would you want next?

[Amsai]

Right because adding a 3rd mage class is balancing the game more then adding the 1st pet class? you lost me...

Yes, actually. In fact it would still be more ballanced if they added a thief class instead. Because while the need for a debuffing mage is great, at least a thief wouldnt take us anymore into a negative and crazy ballancing nightmate like a pet class. Pet classes will always end up being one of 2 things: 1. OverPowered or 2. Completely Useless. I definately dont want and overpowered class, but what even worse is creating a completely useless class. I have seen this in a few games, and its disheartening to let people raise a class with the false assumption that they will be able to contribute to Endgame and be needed. Im sure people remember Beastmaster from FFXI? The one class that was always shunned by endgame content. The only time it wasnt was when Beastmasters got together and made an all beastmaster EGLS. And before anyone says it, yes its all about ENdgame and no the journey doesnt matter at all.

[grandm]

if is a mage type pet class then there no saying it cant also be a thf is there


i mage with daggers and a pet who steals and does magic, anything is possible but lets stick to the stereo typical roles for arguments sake

no there is not. it could be a magic casting thief, that has a pet.

BAM every1 is happy :P

[syntaxlies]

We now have a buffing class called brd. So we will get better buffs to counter act the debuffs. Also we have combos that inflict some of these debuffs. so its not lost just different.

oh, do we now have that, i thought that cam out in 3 months, anyway, im begining to think you haven't looked at class reforms. bards will not fill the whole that mage reforms will have.

We are not gonna get another Melee thats completely NOT balancing the game. You had a point with another mage over thf but now your lost if you think a thf over Mage or pet class.

i was referring to combining all three into 1 class as a joke, gandm got it, good job grandm

[Julie]

I'd love to see another mage class I've always had the most fun casting magic!

It doesn't matter if its nuking, healing, debuff or buffing magic, as long as it does some lightshow which looks cool, then I'll be happy (Really am hoping for improvments on that ) . Of course it's even more awesome when the spells are powerful as well!

Another caster/mage class all the way please!!! /votes

[Ferth]

Well first off... 1.20 is class adjustments only. Jobs will be 1.21 so no, cnj/whm is not really enough because for the duration of 1.20 it will only be cnj. Second, I can only assume that at some point the ease in which people can be power leveled is going to be nerfed again (maybe not... but we'll see.) not to mention that the need to get cnj to 50 in order to effectively cross class abilities from it is going to change as well, so people who are not inclined to play healers may be less inclined to level cnj past where they need it for certain abilities.

Right now thm can heal in a pinch... how effective will they be when they no longer have sacrifice and only have the same cure spell everyone else can learn from cnj?

Another class that can heal (if not as effectively as cnj/whm) will be needed.

But who knows... maybe paladin will fill that role.

I'm just not used to seeing an MMO with only one class that can heal.

[Nuru]

So, in order of importance to me, I'd vote: Thief first, Caster next, Pet third.

Agreed. Same order i'm in favor of.

[DNO]

Yes, actually. In fact it would still be more ballanced if they added a thief class instead. Because while the need for a debuffing mage is great, at least a thief wouldnt take us anymore into a negative and crazy ballancing nightmate like a pet class. Pet classes will always end up being one of 2 things: 1. OverPowered or 2. Completely Useless. I definately dont want and overpowered class, but what even worse is creating a completely useless class. I have seen this in a few games, and its disheartening to let people raise a class with the false assumption that they will be able to contribute to Endgame and be needed. Im sure people remember Beastmaster from FFXI? The one class that was always shunned by endgame content. The only time it wasnt was when Beastmasters got together and made an all beastmaster EGLS. And before anyone says it, yes its all about ENdgame and no the journey doesnt matter at all.

Wow... man so SMN , PUP and BST was useless? right i see what you did there............dot......

[DeadRiser]

It's already been said that a magic class will come first, numerous times in numerous interviews. So that casting class could either be a pet class or a regular caster class. Theif has lowest priority.

Goodbye

[DNO]

oh, do we now have that, i thought that cam out in 3 months, anyway, im begining to think you haven't looked at class reforms. bards will not fill the whole that mage reforms will have.


i was referring to combining all three into 1 class as a joke, gandm got it, good job grandm

And also did THM lose debuffs now? nope not yet. It will lose it but its not gone now. Im starting to think you are playing a future version of this game that i have not played yet.

and joke was not really funny.

[DNO]

It's already been said that a magic class will come first, numerous times in numerous interviews. So that casting class could either be a pet class or a regular caster class. Theif has lowest priority.

Goodbye

and this is the smartest way to do it.