New Gatherer Job

[Big_Panda]

On the one hand, creating a new gatherer with brand new mats is a bad idea because these mats need to be incorporated into existing recipes without screwing the crafters.

On the other hand, letting the new gatherer gather monster drops would kill a (good? decent? ok?) source of gil for combat class.

[New_Game_Plus]

That's actually a pretty cool idea. Could call it a Hunter or something along those lines.

I could dig a Bug-Catching Class for 5.0. It would be very enjoyable to see WoL running around with a net.

[Squintina]

The basic idea is nice, but instead of the node being actual monsters out in the field, they should be actual nodes. Call them bait locations or whatever you want, where you use "bait" to lure in a fake monster that you then catch. The reason for this is that every other DoL has their own personal nodes, so this one should as well, otherwise every single person would be trying to hunt the same 5 monster spawns and you'd be right back where you started with everyone getting almost nothing. You could even have a lot more timed nodes for them if you wanted, if they're worried about flooding the market with hides: have the normal nodes be for lesser parts, like feathers/meat/whatever, and then have fast spawning timed nodes (respawn every 15m-1h?) for the actual hide.

I prefer this idea to the OP's.

A Trapper class, that sets up and collects traps, would be perfect.

[SirBrighton]

It would be better to create a new DoL class that works with more than just what the game already has to offer.
Make something like an Extractor which gathers a new kind of item like Aetherial Essences from aether-rich areas used in the creation of a new DoW/DoM class' main hand weapon (Blue Mage?), as well as other, miscellaneous crafted items.

[cactusking]

First, doesn't the retainer kind of fill this spot? Gathering monster items so you don't have to?

Second, the term people are looking for is poacher, abbreviated as PCH.

[Zohar_Lahar]

There was a scrapped Shepherd class in 1.0 that would have been based in Falcon's Nest. But they made no attempt to revive it in Heavensward. Personally, I think they should add ranches to residential districts to give players new things to do, at least.

[Ceallach]

I would love to have a fourth gathering class. Back in 1.0, the shepherd was planned as a Disciple of the Land that would gather items like wool from live animals (and maybe monsters!) such as sheep. These days a ninja can just Mug things to death, though. What isn't covered by killing monsters and the Disciple of the Land classes we currently have?

[Kurando]

I have considered that a new Gathering class could be an Archaeologist. It would go around the world and identify ancient objects like Allagan relics, graves, murals etc. The loot would be things like potions, vials, tomestones, manuals etc that are not required to rework previous crafting recipes (could be stuff you get in the Aquapolis/Canals and PotD as well).

Another bonus by having an Archaeologist class is it would give a special History Log that fills up over time and players can learn about the history of Eorzea/Hydaelyn.