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

[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.