What Classes Do You Want to See Next?

[Mansion]

I havn't found any issues with smn or scholar, actually smn is more powerful than BLM right now. But you are right too, pets need more control, like in WoW. They dumbed down pets so much and for what reason other than making it more accesible for dumb players to run them. Im not sure why square keep dumbing down jobs, if people are bad at playing them, why picking them up in the first place...

5.1 helped SMN (a lot), but I understand SCH still has ghosting issues. And you can still confuse the pet if you try things like weaving Enkindle / Devotion between two Egi Assaults. Then there's Bahamut and its slow reaction on some Akh morns and movement. Yes SMN is powerful, but the pet problem is still there, and optimal gameplay is more about including those strict pet rules in the SMN flow to avoid any problem there.
The great experts can correct me, but from my understanding the issue is how actions queue for the pet, and sometimes conflicts with auto-attack. Most improvements on that have just put more things on the SMN rather than the pet, so it's just going around the problematic pet behaviour. You end up with a pet job that is arguably not managing its pet 90% of the time.

Back on topic, I'd enjoy a pet job if I felt a real interaction with the pet itself and not just "ordering it to do this and that". It might be difficult to implement in FFXIV's gameplay, but I'd loe to see it too

[Brightshadow]

What about Corsair, they would be the opposite of RDM in that they would mostly be in the Frontlines but they would have a powerful backline finisher. And they would also have some gambling aspects like FFXI

[SlackMage]

Beastmaster or a Necromancer

[Ryoutoshi]

I just want a cool healer so I can enjoy the role again.

Call it whatever you want.

[Khalithar]

Garlean Magitek class. Tank, healer, dps. I don't care.

[Enla]

Chemist, that's all I want. Or hell any healer class. I don't care about balance anymore, I just want something new to play.

[Lonkkis]

Healer, Physical ranged and Caster. Then we'd have four of each.

[Jandor]

Healer, Physical ranged and Caster. Then we'd have four of each.

Technically, we have four casters. Just the 4th one was kneecapped straight out the gate.

[GrimGale]

Chemist as a Flintlock, potion shooting, Essence mixing garlean healer.

Arithmetitian as a condition-based, distance-dependant, abacus wielding, garlean artificial magic caster.

Beastmaster/Hunter as a Crossbow wielding, pet dependant ranged Dps.

[Allegor]

Now that WHM dropped the nature theme entirely in favor of holy/light, Geomancer could pick it up and be the official "druid"* healer.

(*I have no knowledge of other FF games, just going off name and themes here lol)