Future jobs speculation: Mystic/Rune Knight thread

[Kalaam]

Call it Mystic Knight, Rune Knight, Judge or Spell Fencer

Hi.
So, with the announcement of the Reaper the argument of redundancy or overlap between job concepts flew out of the window. The team can add any job they want and make it unique. One could have argued that Reaper would just be "DRK dps" and henceforth wouldn't happen since it'd step onto the Dark Knight's lawn, but nope. Reaper is here and he's here to stay in all its edgy glory.

So no more argument that a Mystic Knight, Rune Fencer, etc wouldn't be possible because it's too similar to Red Mage but melee, or that Paladin already has a physical and magical rotation. It could even be inspired by XI's Red Mage and Rune Fencer like Reaper got some inspiration from XI's Dark Knight from what I understood.

Let's just share the love for this job and its concept !

What would you like from it ? What makes you want this job ?


What weapon do you think it would use ?


Which armor set would it wear ?


What would its gameplay be like ?


Which NPC could represent it ?And why it's Alisaie



Let's speculate freely and have fun, wether this topic is read by the devs or not, wether it's for 7.0 or 14.0, we are here to have fun thinking about our favorite jobs !

[ItMe]

IDK but I hope it's a tank because oh man this glam would look FIRE on a Mystic/Rune Knight

[Kalaam]

I'm honestly a bit tired of sword jobs being tanks xD Or barely using their sword (red mage).
I'm sure that if it happened it'd be a pretty cool job, but I just feel like it'd be more at home as a dps, rotating between different "En-"spell buffs etc.
Great glam' tho'

[Katie_Kitty]

Or barely using their sword (red mage).

But we use it every time we cast spells. We just don't *stab* people with it outside melee combo. :P

[Cetek14]

For some reason they really don't want to give proper sword to DPS. And maiming set is already out of the question.
Its not entirely unlikely to get rune fencer for scouting set, but it would have to be non-heavy armor variant. So basically spellblade.

[Kalaam]

Yeah true, we use it (as a staff).

[Kalaam]

For some reason they really don't want to give proper sword to DPS. And maiming set is already out of the question.
Its not entirely unlikely to get rune fencer for scouting set, but it would have to be non-heavy armor variant. So basically spellblade.

I think it could be maiming still. The armor set doesn't really mean anything regarding the role of the job without the group, it's still a melee DPS.
I could see something close to Bravely Default's Spell fencer as a striking set for example.

[Equitable_Remedy]

This is very timely and not at all premature.

[Kalaam]

Better start early Viera male supporters did not wait for the full release to voice their desires.

[ChazNatlo]

Still keen on my thought of borrowing from Type-0 and giving the mystic knight a whip sword. Make it a reverse Red-mage and have it stick with melee and have a damage phase where they have longer range (hop back optional to prevent hopping back off a platform when you want to do a DPS up phase.)