I wish this game had a spellblade job

[TeraRamis]

While yes, the paladin does to a degree fill this niche, it is a) not a DPS (which I traditionally regard spellblades as being), and b) really only has one ability - Confiteor - which truly fits the mold. Although spellblades aren't specifically a "thing" in Final Fantasy, equivalent jobs that were spellblades in all but name were pretty much littered throughout Final Fantasy Tactics - from Gaffgarion's Fell Knight, to Agrias' Holy Knight, to Dycedarg's Rune Knight. All of them were equipped with various spell-sword attacks which were amongst the more visually interesting and memorable abilities (at least IMO) in FFT:





I'm in no way crapping on the upcoming jobs - I personally plan to at least try to main a Sage (no promises; in 2+ decades of playing MMORPGs, I've never main'd a healer for more than about 3 weeks) - but if the game continues to putter along, and if we really are not going to see more races added, I do expect there to be additional jobs. And, frankly, something spellblade-ish should probably be in the mix, considering how prominent those jobs were in FFT, and how we do live on that same planet.

Also, my second-place vote is for Geomancer. Because volcanoes.

[Jeeqbit]

Paladin fills this for tanks, but for DPS you have Red Mage.

[Endariel]

Paladin fills this for tanks, but for DPS you have Red Mage.

RDM is definitely NOT an allusion to a spell blade. Not in the slightest. They use magic via a catalyst, just like other magic classic jobs. It just happens that they have 4 melee skills.

[TeraRamis]

RDM is definitely NOT an allusion to a spell blade. Not in the slightest. They use magic via a catalyst, just like other magic classic jobs. It just happens that they have 4 melee skills.

All of which still do magic damage, if I recall.

@Endariel: Spellblades are more like knights with magical abilities attuned through their weapons. They'd be a melee class with a bunch of DOT/status ailment/debuff/burst abilities that were (hopefully) visualized as giant swords erupting from the ground, or falling from the sky, etc.

Red mage is... more like a caster who likes to dabble in a bit of fencing. Their rapier is just a staff with the headpiece floating in a disembodied fashion next to them except when casting. It's not the same thing at all.

[Sheriyana]

I assume you haven't played FFV as this is mystic knight you're describing. And yes, I've wanted that job for XIV for years, could be awesome in this game. Not really necessarily as giant swords all around the place but imbuing magic spells to their swords, adding cool black magic effects to basic melee sword attacks.

[Tsiron]

Realistically speaking RDM is probably close enough by their reckoning... but assuming that isn't the case, as swords go there's still longswords (somewhere between one-handed swords and greatswords). They could make that their weapon, and I'd be all for it!
EDIT: for examples of what I'm talking about think The Witcher's Geralt or the protagonist of Tales of Arise. They're two-handed swords, but not the kind people usually think of

[Elissar]

Kingdom Under Fire 2 has one of the best example of a Spellblade...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydmn7Yqygdc

[Andy_T93]

Yeah also disappointed with this, its actually odd that we don't have a single proper sword wielding DPS, Paladin and Gunbreaker are obvs Tanks, Red Mage sword may as well be a staff closest is Samurai

Yeah would love a spell blade class, casts spells to enchant the sword and slice things up

[Ultaniku]

The mystic knight fits that bill and I would love it to be in xiv as a job. Or if they wanted a different name for it the spell fencer from the 4 heroes of light comes to mind.

[Bacent]

I'm still holding out for Rune Fencer or anything like that. If they added a class who was focused around runes to cast imbued physical magics I'd swap my main from Paladin in a heartbeat.