Obscure Classes

[JunkhogMakison]

The Final Fantasy series is filled to the brim with amazing and diverse classes. We all have our favorites but these are a couple I wouldn't mind seeing in this game and I wanna see what everyone thinks about these classes and offer ways on how they could work.


Mediator- Utilizes linguistics to aid allies and enfeebled enemies. Basically this is a class that uses speeches as spells. We currently have bards and dancers, we got the singing and the dancing, how bout the speaking? The way it could work is you use scrolls as weapons, and your rotation could be chaining speeches together to make powerful statements.

Calculator- Wields the numerics of war. Someone who uses math to fight. As lame as math can be I think Calculator could be a powerhouse of a class. It can use an abacus as a weapon and the rotation can vary depending on percentage of HP, MP, and TP of allies and enemies.

Evoker- Glorified Summoners. You may be thinking well we already have summomer what more could evoker do? Well it can open up an opportunity to utilize summons for more diverse class options. Bismark for Tank, Unicorn for Healing, Tonberry for DPS, with the evoker class you can have summons that take on roles of main classes.

Lanista- Soul Sappers. Again essentially glorified Dark Knights but I feel that Lanistas can be heavy users in Drain spells. Osmosis, STR Sap, DEX Draw, and the classic HP Drain Etc. Lanistas can operate as extremely ferocious healers. Drain enemies of needed stats for your party members

Chocobo Knight- We have chocobo companions we can fight with. Why not take it a step further? Become a full fledge chocobo militant. Tame Yellow, Black, White, Red, and rare chocobo breeds to take on mainline roles. Combination of a Warrior/Summoner but very Chocobo focused.

[kidalutz]

I'd like Holy Knight or Divine Knight myself both from FFT we've already seen how effective a combination of thier skills can be in game. *stares at T.G. Cid*

[Shiro--Tsubasa]

I always liked the idea of Morpher being in FF14 or something akin to it thematically. Morphers used monster souls to shapeshift into different monsters and fight as if they were monsters.

I think the closest thing we have seen to that is how Iceheart shapeshifted into Shiva and was able to retain herself. Perhaps we could get something like that and call it Primalist or something. lol It would be a 14 unique twist on an old class. I like the idea of shapeshifting into shiva. I wonder which role they would be, hmmmm. perhaps Odin/titan = tank, Shiva = magic dps, garuda = ranged dps, Ifrit = melee dps, pheonix = healing. just spitballin is all. xD

[JunkhogMakison]

A Morpher class would be an interesting idea. Do you mean be able to Morph into the enemies you are readily fighting against or do you mean akin to Blu, collect obtainable monster DNA to become said monster?

The former is a cool idea but I feel would render potential classes like Beastmasters a moot point because why tame monsters when you can just become the monsters instead?

If it's the latter, that would be an amazing idea. That would mean every enemy you encounter will be crucial to building your skill/spell table. You can create your own unique rotation and chain enemy skills to which youd morph into the DNA of the enemies you've obtained to pull said moves off.

[Eloah]

There is something to consider in regards to jobs we'd like to see in the future, and that's how closely their main mechanic would translate into an MMO setting, plus is that mechanic already in the game in some form. For instance Mystic/Magic Knight/Spell Blade enchants their sword with magic to do damage, but that concept is similar to what Red Mages do, albeit slightly differently. Many common Ranger skills have been given to Bard, and many Time Mage skills to Astrologian. That isn't to say those jobs cant be implimented, but they would need more unique identities than what they were/are.

[Shiro--Tsubasa]

I was thinking maybe the job quest consisting of us using a strange allagan relic to collect DNA from "unique" monsters that allows us to shapeshift into those monsters with it. Not a collector type of job as I think that would get it stuck in a limited job section which I think would be better suited for Beast Master and BLU. I'm thinking more of a multi-role job that has a role determined by form and forms are gathered from job quests. As for the forms aesthetics I'm on the fence of half-humanoid forms and full transformations as both are pretty cool in their own way.

I kinda disagree about beastmaster becoming moot due to the feel of having a monster as your companion is very different from being able to take the form of a monster yourself.

[Shougun]

I always liked the idea of Morpher being in FF14 or something akin to it thematically. Morphers used monster souls to shapeshift into different monsters and fight as if they were monsters.

I think the closest thing we have seen to that is how Iceheart shapeshifted into Shiva and was able to retain herself. Perhaps we could get something like that and call it Primalist or something. lol It would be a 14 unique twist on an old class. I like the idea of shapeshifting into shiva. I wonder which role they would be, hmmmm. perhaps Odin/titan = tank, Shiva = magic dps, garuda = ranged dps, Ifrit = melee dps, pheonix = healing. just spitballin is all. xD

I'd love a sort of morphing job.

On primal related stuff it could have some references and sort of classic FF feel with nods to Terra Branford from FFVI (who was part Esper). I'd love the focus on monster souls or stuff like that, giving it a sort of dark backstory (like FFXI Blue Mage) or Harmonixer (Shadow Hearts a PS2 game series). With inspiration from Vincent (FF7), Dante (Devil May Cry), Yuri (Shadow Hearts) I wrote a sort of "void"/dark theme'd morpher: here.

Could use maybe primal energy or something and get part monster part primal looking wild transformations but would, I think, have to be careful looking too "primal-y" because it might make summoners think "yo what the heck, I summon a booger but you get to full on Titan? No no no no" lol.

However they do it I think it would be pretty cool, I like transformation concepts for whatever reason (they don't have to be dark theme'd just a preferential direction, like becoming a werewolf or vampire how it's great strength and great cost). Maybe part of it was when I was a kid I played the ever living Thal out of Illidan from Warcraft 3 lol (who transformed into a huge dark monster).

[Corue]

We definitely need a class that attacks by throwing blitzballs at things.
Its LB3 would instantly kill every MCH and GUN in the party.

[Shiro--Tsubasa]

We definitely need a class that attacks by throwing blitzballs at things.
Its LB3 would instantly kill every MCH and GUN in the party.

Well dancer is the one who throws weapons, perhaps there will be a blitzball glamour for their weapon available at some point.

[Barraind]

As lame as math can be I think Calculator could be a powerhouse of a class

Calculator in its original game was one of the most abusable jobs imaginable, so its not much of a stretch.