I think I have an Idea of the next Melee Class!

[MikkoAkure]

Has anyone else thought about the PR nightmare that would happen if they tried to push out a Scythe wielding reaper anything during a global pandemic with millions dead?

What. /10char

[Edax]

Has anyone else thought about the PR nightmare that would happen if they tried to push out a Scythe wielding reaper anything during a global pandemic with millions dead?

I hate to break it to you, but people died before the pandemic. 58.39 million died in 2019.

[Rymi64]

From what I have read so far, the names dropped are : Reaper, Necromancer, Assassin, Beastmaster, Templar, Corsair, Hunter.

Another theory I have could be related to Bozja.

For the healers, we have the Essence of the Elder which is called Essence du Sage in French.
So maybe, Duelist which is Duelliste in French could be the name of the next melee job.
But a Duelist with a Scyth seems weird, I don't know.

To be fair red mages are kinda referred to as duelists already

[BasicBlake]

I hate to break it to you, but people died before the pandemic. 58.39 million died in 2019.

Oh damn I thought death was invented in 2020 my bad.

This is definitely the response I'd expect around here but still. Companies even had to change commercials on tv because of it. I guess the whole expansion is behind schedule for no reason as is then, by this logic.

No need to be an ass for no reason.

[BasicBlake]

From what I have read so far, the names dropped are : Reaper, Necromancer, Assassin, Beastmaster, Templar, Corsair, Hunter.

Another theory I have could be related to Bozja.

For the healers, we have the Essence of the Elder which is called Essence du Sage in French.
So maybe, Duelist which is Duelliste in French could be the name of the next melee job.
But a Duelist with a Scyth seems weird, I don't know.

Red Mage AF is called "duelests xx"

[Edax]

Oh damn I thought death was invented in 2020 my bad.

This is definitely the response I'd expect around here but still. Companies even had to change commercials on tv because of it. I guess the whole expansion is behind schedule for no reason as is then, by this logic.

No need to be an ass for no reason.

The result was a blur of flowery and nebulous commercials that didn't have any real message and confused everyone because businesses weren't advertising anything anymore. This was not a change they had to make and it defied logic.

‘The New Normal’ of Awful COVID-Themed Commercials
"Despite all the “end of the world” jokes on your Twitter feed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has in fact continued to keep doing its thing … just in different ways. Capitalism, sadly, continues to “function,” and the various corporations that rule our lives still have products and services to push. But they can’t very well do so without at least some acknowledgment that a good deal of their customers are currently trapped in quarantine. Hence we have a wave of (rushed, aesthetically identical) new advertisements, often making heavy use of stock footage, actors and testimonials appearing via video chat, repurposed social media material, or a mix of all three.

And this **** is weird. Like, even weirder than advertising already was. (And that’s before getting to any of the regular ads that had to be pulled due to their spectacularly poor timing.)" - https://hyperallergic.com/559158/terrible-covid-ads/

[Lihtleita]

lads why are we talking about the rona this much

[Vickii]

I think the new job is whatever R’anjit was

[t0rn]

Final Fantasy
Finale
Endwalker!

Yeah, I’m just gonna take Yoshi’s ‘hints’ with a grain of salt.

[Liam_Harper]

The end boss of e12 was speculated to almost certainly be Ultimecia and many were convinced the 4th healer would be Chemist, with strong "hints" for both ingame. In Stormblood we thought we were getting dancer, but it turned out to be nothing to do with it and in Shadowbringers we thought we were literally becoming the Warrior of Darkness and going down the dark/corrupted path yet nothing of the sort happened.

Enix like to go out of their way to avoid the popular assumptions and "surprise" us with something different. For the healer they even went out of their way to create an entirely new class with a completely unique weapon.
I'm almost certain it won't be Reaper or Necromancer. It will be something no one expected. Possibly even another entirely new class unique to FF14.