Which Job you want next?

[NorthernLadMSP]

I want a new healer, but seeing as how they are on a constant struggle with healers, I'm no longer getting my hopes up. However, if they do, I'd take Chemist over Geomancer any day. Chemist could be a fresh take, while Geomancer to me seems too similar to WHM (at least how it used to be).

[dustdjinn]

I'm so excited for GEOMANCER!!!!

[Raikai]

Geomancer for healer, using water spells to heal, earth spells to shield, fire and wind spells to dps

[HumanNinjaToo]

I like the idea of a new healer class, but I am thinking that it would interesting to make a Necromancer as a healer. The necro would be using his own life force to heal the other players, while the offensive set of skills would involve sapping energy/mana/health from the enemies to sustain the heals provided to PCs. It may even be interesting to have Life spell that brings players back quickly/cheaper than usual but adds some type of zombie effect for a limited time. Or even have a pet zombie... O.o


Also, I like the chemist job idea, but I was thinking it could be more of a DPS role that focuses on debuffs, kind of like the FF13 saboteur role. I think it would be interesting if the job gets more use out of all those damn POTs in some way, perhaps mixing certain potions will produce random effects to mobs or PCs??

Geomancer of course sounds like an interesting class. I liked the idea someone posted to make it a healer.

[Cyreil]

Time Mage. Especially now that there isn't any argument left on whether Astrologian fits that role now.

[VillainQueen]

Beastmaster; uses an animal pet and a whip as weapon. A (melee) DPS class.
Trickster a mage class that uses illusions a bit like the Mesmer in GW2, weapon could be a mirror or something. Magical DPS class.
Onmyoji, a healer that uses talismans and can heal/ buff and put debuff on the enemy, like blessings and curses. Healer class.

Others could be Rune Knight, Puppetmaster and finally a class that is using the teased hammer as a weapon.

[Tharnor]

To be honest I would prefer no new jobs. They cant seem to balance the jobs we currently have very good. Adding more just makes it worse.

[Maverick_Haas]

How about a melee healer? Heal spells are obviously ranged, but attacks are melee and taking/dealing damage increases healing potency. Something interesting like that.

[Senn]

Geomancer.

[HWalsh]

I like the idea of a new healer class, but I am thinking that it would interesting to make a Necromancer as a healer. The necro would be using his own life force to heal the other players, while the offensive set of skills would involve sapping energy/mana/health from the enemies to sustain the heals provided to PCs. It may even be interesting to have Life spell that brings players back quickly/cheaper than usual but adds some type of zombie effect for a limited time. Or even have a pet zombie... O.o


Also, I like the chemist job idea, but I was thinking it could be more of a DPS role that focuses on debuffs, kind of like the FF13 saboteur role. I think it would be interesting if the job gets more use out of all those damn POTs in some way, perhaps mixing certain potions will produce random effects to mobs or PCs??

Geomancer of course sounds like an interesting class. I liked the idea someone posted to make it a healer.

That's not a terrible idea, but it uses D&D/Pathfinder logic over Final Fantasy logic.

In other games Necromancy is used for healing and raising the dead. In Final Fantasy the "Necromancy" spells are all treated as evil and anti-life. The undead take damage from healing magic and are outright killed from raise dead spells.

Necromancy in Final Fantasy would wholly be DPS or possibly Tank. As in draining enemy health to heal themselves.

FYI - The Final Fantasy Necromancy spells are:

Demi - Reduces enemy HP by a percentage (probably too powerful for an MMO)

Drain - Deals damage and self-help for the same amount.

Doom - Percentage chance to kills target instantly - Too powerful for an mmorpg.

Sever - Appeared as various incarnations, this turns a target into a zombie that attacks mindlessly and inflicts the zombie condition that grants the same weaknesses and advantages as undead.

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I'm a lorephile - So I want to see new things added that are derived from the existant Final Fantasy lore whenever possible.

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Some people mentioned "Advanced Classes/Jobs" and I'm down with that as an idea. There was precedent for this in the original Final Fantasy. After finding the Rat's Tail artifact for the dragon Bahamut the party was empowered to new classes.

Warrior -> Knight (Paladin)
Monk -> Master
Thief -> Ninja
White/Black/Red Mage -> White/Black/Red Wizard

As these are all upgrades to base classes, I'd like to see something similar for the next expansion, but focused on the base jobs.

Warrior, Paladin, Dragoon, Monk, Ninja, Bard, Black Mage, White Mage, Summoner, Scholar

So, how I would do it, would be something like:

(All require level 80 base class and start at level 50)

Warrior -> Weapon Master
Paladin -> Holy Knight
Monk -> Master
Ninja -> Shinobi
Bard -> Spellsinger
Black/White Mage -> Black/White Wizard
Summoner -> Incarnate (basically channels summons through themselves)
Scholar -> Philosopher

(I had to invent names for some of these since they had no FF comparison.)

Each would make the base job into a hybrid. Basically base class, so the abilities of the base job to 50, then new role powers from 50-level cap

Weapon Master: Tank/Melee DPS
Holy Knight: Tank/Defensive Buffer
Master: Meele DPS/Tank
Shinobi: Ranged DPS/Debuffer
Spellsinger: Ranged DPS/Healer
White Wizard: Healer/Ranged DPS
Black Wizard: Ranged DPS/Offensive Buffer
Incarnate: Ranged DPS/Defensive Buffer
Philosopher: Healer/Offensive Buffer

Basically the "secondary role" works in a passive manner - Similar to how jobs like Dancer are Ranged DPS/Offensive Buffer.

So Weaponmaster would be not quite as tanky as a tank (but still tanky) but with more damage.

Holy Knight would be not quite as Tanky, but have spells that up their, and their party's defenses.

The Master would gain some tanky abilities. Etc etc