Obscure Classes

[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.

[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).