Thread: 6.0 New Job (Healer: Sage and Melee DPS: ???)

Originally Posted by Berkilak

I honestly have no idea.

The word "filth" evokes Beastmaster. "Fury" evokes Berserker. Imagery evokes Necromancer. A little digging evokes a myriad of other classes.

For what it's worth, I would enjoy a Berserker/Beastmaster hybrid. But I highly doubt we'll get anything like that.

I'm prepped for something completely random.

The only class that I'm semi-certain will not be our melee DPS is a Necromancer/Reaper. They name dropped it, which would utterly kill the hype if they technically announced it early.

Necromancers and Reapers are not the same,

Necromancers pervert the cycle of life and death by claiming dominion. Whereas "The" reaper is a Shepard of souls, the scythe he bares is more to take those that try to cheat him and upset the cycle.

Should a "Reaper" job be added they could go into detail aboit how the two differ, I.E. one refuses accept death the other understands its purpose.

Originally Posted by Xyrn86

Necromancers and Reapers are not the same,

Necromancers pervert the cycle of life and death by claiming dominion. Whereas "The" reaper is a Shepard of souls, the scythe he bares is more to take those that try to cheat him and upset the cycle.

Should a "Reaper" job be added they could go into detail aboit how the two differ, I.E. one refuses accept death the other understands its purpose.

They're dealing with the same thematics and evoking the same imagery, regardless.

Originally Posted by Berkilak

They're dealing with the same thematics and evoking the same imagery, regardless.

True, I was just theorizing lore.

Originally Posted by Xyrn86

Necromancers and Reapers are not the same,

Necromancers pervert the cycle of life and death by claiming dominion. Whereas "The" reaper is a Shepard of souls, the scythe he bares is more to take those that try to cheat him and upset the cycle.

Should a "Reaper" job be added they could go into detail aboit how the two differ, I.E. one refuses accept death the other understands its purpose.

Essentially, a necromancer would create undead creatures as slaves while a reaper could be used as an anti-undead fighter that returns them to rest (with the possible exception of certain undeads in a certain major side quest.)

It could fit thematically with Fandaniel trying to recreate a past event (thus bringing back to life what should be left to rest in the past) or maybe showing a distinction between letting death runs its course and killing everyone and everything like what Fandaniel wants to do.

I mean, the smart money is on something death-related.

But I'm still quietly skeptical because of the overt nature of the "hint" and the numerous overt name drops. That's not really their style.

Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Beastmasters can technically use scythes as far as I'm aware, so Beastmaster is still a possibility. If we take the meaning of his second shirt at face value, Children of Bodom is a heavy metal band, and "Bodom" is the name of a lake that was the site of a pretty gruesome event, initiated by an unknown attacker slashing downwards on a tent. So...I've still got nothing in regards to the job. What I would be willing to bet however is the weapon of choice for the new job, and that's the scythe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Bodom

Thought follow the reaper was a half decent pull from the page. Other themes continue with death. Given the grim reaper picture twice now it does feel follow the white rabbit like.

Reaper job would also fit for something dark theme'd without making someone question if it's okay to be. Job focused on cleansing the soul, which also happens to have to deal with Anima being in the same expansion. Anima relating to the soul (the name). And soul magic was relatively big part of the last expansion (ShB).

I'm still going with money on something relating to reaper (and potentially Ranjit). And if the name Reaper isn't apt enough for the series, like I mentioned in the other post Ranjit was based off a character from another FF game that was a ravager and Golbez. Golbez wearing heavy armor, a character who used a lot of magic (some dark theme'd), the job supposedly going to be wearing Dragoon armor if we take Yoshida's sort of aside comment on the matter.

Ravager in other FF games often focusing on what our current Black Mage focuses on. So that doesn't help too much in theme, thoughts though. However, ravager does also then fit into the filth and fury of the first shirt's concept.

So double reaper of filth and fury, a reaper (soul / dark magic) theme'd melee job that wears heavy-ish armor? Maybe..

Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Yeah, the answer is probably staring us straight in the face, and I'm just thinking way outside the box. lol That's probably the most likely scenario.

Well my bias hopes it is the reaper direction but we can't be for sure lol. It could be skeleton bones, dogs like bones, beastmaster confirmed.

Nothing to with anything else in the picture.. just something as crazy silly as that XD.