Next Job/Jobs Speculation

[Telvorei]

How many of you believe as I do, that Lyse is actually a DNC not a MNK? Her fighting style is more dance-like with the likes of jigs and a one-handed dagger gauntlet thing. If you say but she used to used MNK weapons and fight like a MNK in the past, then I say to you...

She was impersonating her sister until recently.

Well Tancred was a Rogue, but had the gladiator arms and fighting style until Rogue was about to be implemented. In the same sense that 1.0 had weird Arcanist arms, and Ryukuho in the AST questline is a Geomancer and has conjurer fighting styles.
I don't think it's out of the box to think how people might seem a specific class based on current game mechanics, but are only assigned such as similar placeholders until the correct class/job is actually implemented in game

[Kazrah]

Well Tancred was a Rogue, but had the gladiator arms and fighting style until Rogue was about to be implemented. In the same sense that 1.0 had weird Arcanist arms, and Ryukuho in the AST questline is a Geomancer and has conjurer fighting styles.
I don't think it's out of the box to think how people might seem a specific class based on current game mechanics, but are only assigned such as similar placeholders until the correct class/job is actually implemented in game

I think it's more a case-by-case basis. Thancred didn't really have a defined class/job, but rather a vague image that slowly transitioned over the course of ARR and cemented into what it is now with Heavensward. With the "Geomancer", it's not just the placeholder stuff, but the whole theme and everything brought up in that Astrologian questline is almost entirely Conjurer.

As for Arcanist, I would argue that 1.0 is probably almost as distinct from 2.x onward as any other FF game is from FFXIV, so that one to me doesn't really count.

[Fantasy9]

I think it's more a case-by-case basis. Thancred didn't really have a defined class/job, but rather a vague image that slowly transitioned over the course of ARR and cemented into what it is now with Heavensward. With the "Geomancer", it's not just the placeholder stuff, but the whole theme and everything brought up in that Astrologian questline is almost entirely Conjurer.

As for Arcanist, I would argue that 1.0 is probably almost as distinct from 2.x onward as any other FF game is from FFXIV, so that one to me doesn't really count.

I just hope they don't do to DNC and GEO as they did with Merylwyp(I know I misspelled her name), the admiral was shown as musketeer for the longest time and still is but what we got was MCH...

[Telvorei]

I just hope they don't do to DNC and GEO as they did with Merylwyp(I know I misspelled her name), the admiral was shown as musketeer for the longest time and still is but what we got was MCH...

I agree. I would hate for them to simply mention Geomancer in HW and again in Stormblood, and for them to basically say "You already have conjurer and astrologian!" :/ I would be heartbroken. Maybe I'm being too hopeful and unrealistic. Who knows.

[armandojc3]

has there been any official word on "advanced classes"? like specializatinos?.

say you have a paladin and can specialize in shield skills or magic skills get 1 or 2 different abilities depending on your choice.

[Kazrah]

has there been any official word on "advanced classes"? like specializatinos?.

say you have a paladin and can specialize in shield skills or magic skills get 1 or 2 different abilities depending on your choice.

Yoshi pretty much said no to it, preferring that jobs not only be simple, but has repeatedly stated plans to remove the base class system to accommodate for this vision.

[Telvorei]

Yoshi pretty much said no to it, preferring that jobs not only be simple, but has repeatedly stated plans to remove the base class system to accommodate for this vision.

With that being said, they could find room to implement some of the base classes as fully fledged separate jobs with possible renames and weapons. Archer is renamed tl Ranger and reclassified with weapon crossbow. Conjurer renamed to Geomancer with weapon changed to Bell, etc.

[Brightshadow]

With that being said, they could find room to implement some of the base classes as fully fledged separate jobs with possible renames and weapons. Archer is renamed tl Ranger and reclassified with weapon crossbow. Conjurer renamed to Geomancer with weapon changed to Bell, etc.

I would actually love this so thief can become a proper job. I feel it can be different enough from nin.

[KisaiTenshi]

With the recent mog mail message tied to SB pre order items making mention of Blue Mage and just mention of Geomancer in Ast quest, would it be a hint that the next job/jobs being introduced might be Geomancer and/or Blue Mage? Geomancer being unlocked in the far east (avoiding spoilers but for those that have done the AST quest you know).

Thoughts?

You know, Limsa Lominsa still has the Musketeer guild signage everywhere. Even though the Machinist guild "is" the gun job. There obviously are NPC's that are gun-only.

Just because there are clues in the game, it doesn't mean they get in the game.