New Magic DPS job idea!

[Zachia]

So in WoW there is a warlock spec called demonology, you would cast a simple shadow bolt 3 times to get 3 soul shards (resources) and you would cast "hand of gul'dan" its a flaming small meteor from the sky that explodes and does decent damage to the primary target and minor damage to those around the primary target. After the mini magic explosion 3 wild imps are spawned near you from said meteor. They begin shooting small fire balls for a specific time before disappearing. How ever you can use a spell called IMPlosion that orders your imps to charge at the enemy and combusting upon their foes sacrificing them for aoe damage. There are other spells to summon demons that fade within a short time. This is the inspiration i get with summoning minions to do your bidding.

Sage was highly influenced by the world of warcraft priest specialization: Discipline that would give allies a buff called atonement and any damage upon enemies would heal allies with atonement. Penance is the at one spell that shoots a big orb of heal towards an ally, bubble based cds are disciplines shields and so on.

Hunters have an ability called Stampede that just has a bunch of animals running through an enemy doing aoe damage, the animals themselves dont have any physical bodies to block you as its just a spell. And elemental disasters can be really anything.

[Vatom]

Im familiar with Sage and hunter never played warlock in WOW so Im getting you

I do wish for them to put a version of atonement in the game for a class this could be cool to have

I think this could be very strong as a limited job but with unlimited options and opportunity but I can see this working as a full job too

a combo spell that does damage and summons is pretty cool think that would be a good fit for your idea

I think combo spells would be the X factor of this class and give you that Sai outlook

Im starting to become a believer here

[whitemoonflower]

The Heroes’ Gauntlet does contain “Spectral Ink Mages”. I wondered if it was some kind of hint.

[Zachia]

oooh ?! and what is this gauntlet?

[Vatom]

LVL 80 Dungeon after you finish the main story of Shadow-bringers ill have to go look at it

[Lolli282]

So I took like a month break to catch up on WoW to see what I missed (for those who left and haven't checked in there isn't much to talk about) and I noticed something. WoW has quite the selection of magical dps classes (jobs) compared to FF14. So I started brainstorming a possible idea for a magic dps job that would be suited for FF14.

Now beware as I don't have a lot of knowledge of the final fantasy franchise outside of my experiences in FF14, FF7, FF6, and FF tactics. But I think a non far fetched idea would be...

The Painter job!

The Painter job is a Magical Ranged dps job that uses a Brush and Palette. By using aether around them they begin to form pictures in the air (or on some white rectangle thing i cant think of name). Once these pictures take form they are unleashed upon their enemies.

A few nice examples on how this would work: Painter begins painting a water fall, within the cast time of finishing it above the enemy a heavy wave of water pours onto the enemy and takes big damage.

A painter can begin painting a chocobo stampede and from the picture in front of them a bunch of chocobos rushes into the enemy in a stampede like animation and exploding back into paint upon impact.

A painter paints a picture of a Moogle caster (or any sort of pet / minion variant) that works as a timed pet combatant that fires magic at their enemis.

With the art and magic of painting anything is possible, there is no fantasy limit that they will have themselves bound too and within the FF14 universe we've faced a boss in Stormblood (i believe) that used paintings as magic against us and we used them to protect ourselves. So it isn't a far fetched idea.

If you guys have any great ideas or feedback for a new magical dps job, I would be glad to hear it! Thank you for reading!

Congrats! Pictomancer is a thing

[Yegu]

Congrats! Pictomancer is a thing

[MikkoAkure]

The Painter job is a Magical Ranged dps job that uses a Brush and Palette. By using aether around them they begin to form pictures in the air (or on some white rectangle thing i cant think of name). Once these pictures take form they are unleashed upon their enemies.

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A painter paints a picture of a Moogle caster

FFXIV just brought us Pictomancer job but apparently the forums have had an oracle this whole time.

[ryouma17]

when i saw the pictomancer video i thought i was watching a new splatoon trailer at first

[Boblawblah]

ehh...those skill effects can't be the real ones right? They look bizarre and out of place.