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

[MikkoAkure]

I think it'll be Beastmaster.

I don't think the t-shirt was hinting towards the job, but rather just hinting towards the WEAPON that the job uses.

That being said, the t-shirt had a grim reaper. The grim reaper is depicted with a scythe.

This would mean the new job is a scythe-wielding job. Who used a scythe? Ranjiit. What FF job is most similar to Ranjiit? Beastmaster

Be careful what you wish for. According to an interview with YoshiP in 2019, he said that it would be a limited job.

By utilizing this concept of limited jobs, I feel that it could potentially open up possibilities to explore the addition of jobs such as like Puppetmaster and Beastmaster.

[OvernightSiren]

Be careful what you wish for. According to an interview with YoshiP in 2019, he said that it would be a limited job.

He said "could open up possibilities", not "would".

[MikkoAkure]

In FFXI, beastmaster was already considered to be a solo job and YoshiP has stated before about his distaste of pet classes so I wouldn't really count on us getting a fully functional beastmaster job in this game. The pets we do have keep getting nerfed every expansion as well.

In defense of beastmaster though, we have beastmaster NPCs showing up in the Bozja storyline so there's that.

Regarding the potential of a scythe wielding job though, scythes already exist in the game as BTN equippable items so I wonder if anything would need to be renamed.

[OvernightSiren]

In FFXI, beastmaster was already considered to be a solo job and YoshiP has stated before about his distaste of pet classes so I wouldn't really count on us getting a fully functional beastmaster job in this game. The pets we do have keep getting nerfed every expansion as well.

In defense of beastmaster though, we have beastmaster NPCs showing up in the Bozja storyline so there's that.

Regarding the potential of a scythe wielding job though, scythes already exist in the game as BTN equippable items so I wonder if anything would need to be renamed.

Axes already exist in the game as well between both BTN and WAR. There's a difference between a small gardening scythe and a scythe like Ranjiit's. They could also rename either one as "sickle" and call it a day.

[MikkoAkure]

Axes already exist in the game as well between both BTN and WAR. There's a difference between a small gardening scythe and a scythe like Ranjiit's. They could also rename either one as "sickle" and call it a day.

Botanist "axes" are called hatchets in the game.

[Shougun]

I think it'll be Beastmaster.

I don't think the t-shirt was hinting towards the job, but rather just hinting towards the WEAPON that the job uses.

That being said, the t-shirt had a grim reaper. The grim reaper is depicted with a scythe.

This would mean the new job is a scythe-wielding job. Who used a scythe? Ranjiit. What FF job is most similar to Ranjiit? Beastmaster

If it's a full job reveal I think Ranjit would represent Ranjit . (Who himself is based off of Golbez and a Ravager job, Golbez being a big opportunity theme for the next expansion since next expansion seems to be hitting some older FFs and Golbez also would be the best candidate for magical melee heavy-er armor wearing job). Since I also believe SE listens to players.. I would be transparent in saying in multiple ways I've asked for a heavy(er) armor wearing bruiser mage job. So at least to me this would be "hype and SE listens". Also mentioning dark job and transforming (Vincent/Terra Brandford). So if they literally made a heavy (ish) wearing dark magical melee job that has transformations I'd be like... O_O; (Ranjit like job in maiming). I weep. Ranjit inspired job would also happen to have some beast, like, aspects which may make some people happy who wanted beastmaster (and SE not wanting to make a full beastmaster normal job, so like Dissida the job may have some aspects to use / fuse with). Some weapons that might shock me is I've hoped for Chain sycthe (with like bell or lantern), and wraps (scarfs, sashes, cloaks, etc - which would be good for a transformation inspired job as that could represent into their forms and add a visual vibe to the job when transformed). My fingers are uncertainly crossed, hopeful but not certain lol.


If it's not a full job though, then yeah totally.. might be a beastmaster (although the second shirt doesn't really read beastmaster to me, I know the first had that reference though). Beastmaster has been referenced multiple times as a potential limited job. Given the issues we've had, the issues they've said they have, I doubt the reveal would be for a full job beastmaster (however I'm not saying that out of "lame", I just have doubts it would be, a full job beastmaster could be really cool, personally still hope for those weird jobs like blue, like beast, to have both limited and full job aspects... I think 'that' would be most awesome).


We still have some other ideas, like Mystic Knight / Rune Knight (templar) - maybe FF got inspired by Death Knights in WoW? Or Judge (I, personally, don't see the reaper as a judge necessarily but maybe Japan sees reaper differently- things kind of shift when they're adopted partially by other cultures).


Like I joked before though, watch it be like Mascot job or something no one would have ever thought lol XD.

[Hank_Hotspur]

I never considered G-Warrior as a hint for Sage... and I still think it's a pretty tenuous link tbf, Sage isn't a magitek job, it uses magic and aether, the Nouliths aren't actual guns.

It's not "magitek" as we've come to expect from Garlemald or the Ironworks, but its still crystalline technology that uses aether and the "hint" doesn't need to be as overt as a character going "I'm THIS job now!". G-Warrior was as close you could get to a Gundam pastiche without actually causing a lawsuit (they even had the Newtype Flash) and the reveal of the Sage with "Nouliths" were even joked about during the reveal that they are a "wholly original idea and in no way similar to Gundam funnels".

So people latched on to the idea of job "hint" that was in fact the opposite of that and could never work and now in hindsight we have a pretty 1-to-1 of what was in 5.3 and the revealed job and you still refuse to see it as the actual hint.

[Roda]

Axes already exist in the game as well between both BTN and WAR. There's a difference between a small gardening scythe and a scythe like Ranjiit's. They could also rename either one as "sickle" and call it a day.

Warscythes are already a thing that distinguishes between gardening scythe and scythe meant to kill people

[Hank_Hotspur]

Warscythes are already a thing that distinguishes between gardening scythe and scythe meant to kill people

Looks like plenty of DRG weapons we have now, including the new relic. Seems like a waste to have both Maiming gear sets use polearms, that would be like the next Scouting job using dual knives but holding them right-side-up

[Rymi64]

Looks like plenty of DRG weapons we have now, including the new relic. Seems like a waste to have both Maiming gear sets use polearms, that would be like the next Scouting job using dual knives but holding them right-side-up

To be fair both of the weapons people have wanted the most recently (Scythes, and war hammer) are technically polearms. It's not like they can get clever with the weapon and make it a transforming weapon kinda like red mage does, the whole sword and focus into a staff is really interesting so they could go the same route as that in making it a "trick weapon"