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

[Orophin]

I don't think a new class/job will come out until 2.0 regardless. I think I would lean towards seeing a pet class first since it's a playstyle we don't really have yet. I know Yoshi and a lot of others (including myself) think we could really use another caster class though. It's a tough choice.

[Dreadnought]

does CON and WHM not meet your healing needs?

CON/WHM are only one type of healer though.
you do realize that most games have several types of healers that specialize in different ways of healing such as massive HOTs but crap burst healing?
what about a healer that specializes in chain healing? or amount of heals done in succession?

not that i care that much, i hate healing.

[Ruinaru]

It pains me to do so, because thief is my favorite class/job, but I think another caster is most important right now.

However, if they want to make thief a debuffer class to fill that void, I can be perfectly fine with it. Thief seems like the perfect fit for a high-speed, low-damage, debuffer with one or two options for high burst damage. Basically just like FFXI's thief, but replace the hate management with debuffs. (Although I love managing hate too...)

[Malakhim]

While my gut says a Scout class(that can dual-wield a la Rikku in FFX-2 no less), I think they should add another discipline of magic first, being that DoM kinda needs someone to throw 'em a bone.

My vote naturally goes to something already mentioned in the game, Arcanist leading into Geomancer would be nice. Maybe some sort of Mystic leading up to Time Mage would be feasible as well.

[Cichy]

All 3 should be implemented at 2.0 no doubt about it.

[neorei]

customizable moogle retainers.

[Zezlar]

Pet class.

[Aldora]

Pet class (Pet user and Debuff) < Yes, please > (^_^ )

[Lauro]

Oh good, was looking for a nice place to put this. Yoshida is discussing the third FINAL FANTASY XIV Player's Poll.


He also responded to a player in regards to listening to poll feedback specifically.

Pet class + Debuffer

[Arcell]

I could have sworn Yoshida said he wanted to put in another mage class before considering more war classes. Let me find the quote....

Here:

If you look at the game right now, the balance is more toward physical attack classes with very few caster classes. Looking at MMOs, we realize that this is not a good balance to have, so the first thing that we're going to be doing after introducing the job system is probably introduce another caster class because that's what the game needs. We realize that currently, the game is lacking in a lot of crowd control type of spells, and we need these to make battles more strategic. To introduce these types of spells, we think one obvious way is to introduce a new caster class that's able to handle them.

Source: http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/10...naoki-yoshida/