What's next for new jobs after Endwalker.

[viola_vilgrantz]

I've been thinking quite a bit about this, and I feel that given we have only one scouting job and 3 casters (if you don't count blue mage for being a limited job), I'd say those are very good candidates. And that leads me to wonder about a few good ideas for it.

For caster, I've been thinking of Geomancer. It would not only be an interesting new job mechanically, having to use neutral magics until it attunes through its own gauge with the environment (something like endwalker's summoner attuning to the eikon elements) and then it uses its attuned elemental to replace its previously neutral attacks. Not only it's a unique job, and has had an introduction before in astrologian's job quests for stormblood, but also, while red mage and black mage are the more hard cast focused casters, summoner is already a more instant cast based caster, and geomancer could be just so along with it due to the fact it's a melee magic potency user, with a few harder hitting skills using hard cast instead, just like summoner.

As far as scouting goes, I think a job that uses whip would do very well, since it's the type of weapon you'd consider for a scouting job. I would even consider an adaptation of the Animist (temporarily borrowing powers from beasts, in line with something like reaper) or the Puppetmaster (a melee machinist) jobs.

Edit:

I really like TheWhiteRabbit's idea for a scouting job that's the opposite of red mage, doing melee with a whip and distancing themselves for ranged attacks during a second phase. I think this would fit Puppetmaster very well with sending Mammets as a resource spender and doing ranged whip attacks during second phase, while meleeing with the whip during first phase.