Next Job/Jobs Speculation

[Telvorei]

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.

I sort of feel that this isn't the best example. Musketeer was originally supposed to be a class. Once Arcanist was added to ARR and had both SMN and SCH attached to it, it came with myriad of problems. I'm assuming that's why they scrapped Machinist coming from Musketeer completely because adding a standalone job is better than continuation of a class -> job system.

Musketeers are remnants of 1.0, just like the rest of the classes.

[KisaiTenshi]

I sort of feel that this isn't the best example. Musketeer was originally supposed to be a class. Once Arcanist was added to ARR and had both SMN and SCH attached to it, it came with myriad of problems. I'm assuming that's why they scrapped Machinist coming from Musketeer completely because adding a standalone job is better than continuation of a class -> job system.

Musketeers are remnants of 1.0, just like the rest of the classes.

They could still put it in. I mean think about WHY you see both the Axe and the Gun everywhere. You don't see this combination anywhere else. My thinking is that at the surface it likely would have been the precursor class to Machinist, but there doesn't need to be just one gun job. The Garleans have Gunblades. There are at least 3 MCH weapons that are guns with blades on them, but they're not used as such I believe. They could also just put the musketeer class in as a "starts at level 1" class that has a different level 30+ job than MCH.

Not that I'm fond of guns (I'm not), but it seems like this was such a key piece of V1.0 storyline that just vanished, yet the remnants of it are in the game:

Does this guy look familiar? (That's Rostnsthal , originally from V1.0's Limsa Lominsa storyline , thread on him over here from 2014: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...The-Barracudas )



I'll give you a hint



There's your Tank Gunner.

Also Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn has TWO guns.

[Kazrah]

They could still put it in. I mean think about WHY you see both the Axe and the Gun everywhere. You don't see this combination anywhere else. My thinking is that at the surface it likely would have been the precursor class to Machinist, but there doesn't need to be just one gun job. The Garleans have Gunblades. There are at least 3 MCH weapons that are guns with blades on them, but they're not used as such I believe. They could also just put the musketeer class in as a "starts at level 1" class that has a different level 30+ job than MCH.

Not that I'm fond of guns (I'm not), but it seems like this was such a key piece of V1.0 storyline that just vanished, yet the remnants of it are in the game:

Go play the MCH questline.

That's where you'll find Rostnsthal and all the lore you'll need explaining what happened to the Barracudas.

Also Merlwyb is a really poor example of why we need another gun job since she's never usually used them like people would think.

[Shippuu]

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.

Exactly this.

On top of that Yoshida has pretty much shot down Blue Mage multiple times with the same reasoning and given his same idea that's been consistent over the years of if he did do it, it would be some kind of solo content and not an actual battle job.

These things, combined with him stating he feels he got all the widely requested "must haves" added to the game and wants to add unique jobs means it's highly likely we will be seeing just that come 5.0. New jobs fit to the world of FFXIV. At most we may see one classic FF job and one new one, but even that is less likely.

I like to think that the Jobs roster of Final Fantasy 5 is a good source for new Jobs.

This means that we could still potentially see the following Jobs:

You say Berserker can't because of Warrior, yet that same logic disqualifies a lot of your list.

- Blue Mage (possible)
- Time Mage (Nope, We have AST)
- Mystic Knight (possible but doubftul)
- Mime (not a snowball's chance in hell)
- Beastmaster (potential but given Yoshida's own comments from the last Fanfest, won't be for a very long time)
- Geomancer (CNJ/WHM and AST prevent this given how GEO is represented in 4.0.
- Dancer (plausible but unlikely, while requested it doesn't have really widespread)
- Chemist (possible)
- Necromancer (Highly unlikely but possible if they continue to shift SMN away from dots)
- Cannoneer (Nope, MCH)
- Oracle (Possible)

[Telvorei]

Exactly this.

On top of that Yoshida has pretty much shot down Blue Mage multiple times with the same reasoning and given his same idea that's been consistent over the years of if he did do it, it would be some kind of solo content and not an actual battle job.

These things, combined with him stating he feels he got all the widely requested "must haves" added to the game and wants to add unique jobs means it's highly likely we will be seeing just that come 5.0. New jobs fit to the world of FFXIV. At most we may see one classic FF job and one new one, but even that is less likely.

We definitely see unique jobs come to XIV and I'm curious to see what else they can come up with. Yoshida did say in the same interview that classes limit jobs. So once they eventually remove classes, I can see them repurposing them as individual jobs. I'd like to stay hopeful for Geomancer

[Dameron]

I like to think that the Jobs roster of Final Fantasy 5 is a good source for new Jobs.

This means that we could still potentially see the following Jobs:
- Blue Mage
- Time Mage
- Mystic Knight
- Mime
- Beastmaster
- Geomancer
- Dancer
- Chemist
- Necromancer
- Cannoneer
- Oracle

Berserker would probably be excluded, seeing as that Job has been mostly integrated into the Warrior Job.

[RitsukoSonoda]

I like to think that the Jobs roster of Final Fantasy 5 is a good source for new Jobs.

The 24 man raid appears to be a ivalice themed one so looking at the jobs there that don't appear already in game. These are taken from FFTA2 as I cant recall what was in FFTA

Fighter
Parivir
Illusionist
Blue Mage
Templar
Cannoneer
Trickster
Beastmaster
Hunter
Time Mage
Sage
Green Mage
Elementalist
Spellblade
Assassin
Sniper
Animist
Moogle Knight - Granted moogle only in FFTA2
Fusilier
Juggler
Tinker
Chocobo Knight
Flintlock
Berserker
Viking
Raptor
Ravager
Geomancer

Then unique classes
Heritor
Sky Pirate
Dancer
Agent

I left out ones that felt to be essentially the same as another job but listed different in game due to it being oriented to a different race in the game.

[TristanBlane]

I neeeeed a new healer class. Chemist, Dancer, Oracle. I'm down for any of those. Just give me something new and fun.

[dinnertime]

Just like what others have said already, it's going to be a tank and a healer. They'll go for the ones that are popular demand but it also depends if it's relevant to the expansion.
People ask for Dancer and Blue Mage the most, then there's Chemist, Beastmaster and Geomancer.

As a tank I think Blue Mage can be one if they took the liberties. Another would be I think Mystic Knight.
For healers it's Dancer or Chemist assuming they'll use that name but whatever.
To make them more interesting, I think we need a (pure) magical-damaging tank and a physical-damaging healer that mainly debuffs.

[Telvorei]

Just like what others have said already, it's going to be a tank and a healer. They'll go for the ones that are popular demand but it also depends if it's relevant to the expansion.
People ask for Dancer and Blue Mage the most, then there's Chemist, Beastmaster and Geomancer.

As a tank I think Blue Mage can be one if they took the liberties. Another would be I think Mystic Knight.
For healers it's Dancer or Chemist assuming they'll use that name but whatever.
To make them more interesting, I think we need a (pure) magical-damaging tank and a physical-damaging healer that mainly debuffs.

Yeah. I'm starting to come to terms that Geomancer might not come as soon, due to other class demand like Blue Mage or Dancer. Geomancer gets overlooked a lot.
It really stinks I had to wait so long for it in XI. Would hate for history to repeat itself.