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

I still hope all these skeletons lead to pirates and Corsair, a reverse RDM melee scouting job with support abilities (Dice rolls and whatnot).

Also Sage.. I don't know. I'll gladly give up Noct stance on AST if it means having back my time-space abilities and Royal Road.

Guessing melee is going to "Necro/ Reaper/ Soul Reaper" or w/e you wanna call being edgy with death themes and a scythe.

If it is going to be a Scythe job then it will be like Sice from type-0
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Sice

It will have a unique name like sage that has not appeared before.

Hopefully sharing an armor set with either dragoon or rogue/ninja.

I mean it's a dumb thing to gloat about, but I thought this would be the route it'd go about 6 months ago.

I'm quoting it here for people to see the general logic of how the jobs have been organized thus far.

I believe that they don't necessarily organize jobs the way they are displayed (eg they might not care/differentiate internally between "Magical Ranged DPS" and "Physical Ranged DPS"; rather it's just for ease of presentation)

Originally Posted by kaynide

I've posted about this in the other thread on jobs, but my position for what it's worth is:

My Assumptions:
1) Jobs (or really any additions) are chosen based on what will sell the expansion/get fans excited. $$$
2) Job choices are not forced to fill missing "gaps" in roles. (4 magical ranged including BLU before a 3rd physical ranged)
3) The way roles are organized is fluid. (It used to just be Melee DPS and Ranged DPS)
4) New jobs can be influenced by the place we're going. but this is not a requirement. (YoshiP was originally planning to do SAM in HW)


Job History
2.0: 2 Tanks, 2 Healers, 2 Melee DPS, 3 Ranged DPS (Initial Release)
2.x:+1 Melee (Balance of 3 Melee and 3 Ranged DPS)
3.0 +1 Tank, +1 Ranged, +1 Healer. (Ranged "split" to Magical Ranged and Physical Ranged)
4.0 +1 Magical Ranged, +1 Melee
4.x +1 Magic Ranged (Can be ignored, it's BLU)
5.0 +1 Physical Ranged, +1 Tank

My Guess
A healer and melee DPS as second; Possible magical ranged instead, but I'd bet on melee.

I strongly suspect a MAIMING DPS (Runic Knight or some kind of "TECH" Knight) on Alesaie.

Originally Posted by Lufir

Since they redid Sage to be completely unique to ffxiv (it was originally a master class of whm and blm) I think the melee dps will be Magus or Warlock reimagined for XIV. It's been in previous FFs as a upgrade to blm and rdm but we could see SE mold it to a more melee focused caster that uses Enfire, Enthunder, Enblizzard, etc.

That reminds a bit of what a Runefencer would do. I'd be on board with that.

I'm also imagining them maybe finally introducing a hammer so we don't have another Gaia situation where an artists doesn't realize none of the classes actually use hammers (outside of a couple of glams!). Lol.

Originally Posted by EdwinLi

at this point things are looking like a Scythe Job for the upcoming Melee DPS.

I would LOVE that.

Originally Posted by kaynide

I mean it's a dumb thing to gloat about, but I thought this would be the route it'd go about 6 months ago.

I'm quoting it here for people to see the general logic of how the jobs have been organized thus far.

I believe that they don't necessarily organize jobs the way they are displayed (eg they might not care/differentiate internally between "Magical Ranged DPS" and "Physical Ranged DPS"; rather it's just for ease of presentation)



I strongly suspect a MAIMING DPS (Runic Knight or some kind of "TECH" Knight) on Alesaie.

I don't think alisaie is gonna change jobs i think Zenos is gonna be the rep for the new job