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.

[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"

[Edax]

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

I've seen the Naginata translated into English as a war scythe sometimes. It's something already in the game though.