The New Job (If Any) Added In 7.0 Will Likely Be Scouting Melee DPS

[Styrmwyda]

Currently Scouting gear is the only gear type to not have two or more associated Jobs to go with it. On that same note, it will likely be the "Selfish DPS" of the Scouting Melee DPS, similar to how Samurai is the "Selfish DPS" of Striking Melee DPS and Reaper is the "Selfish DPS" of the Maiming Melee DPS (though not to the same extent of Samurai).

[True-to-Caesar]

An upgraded rogue would be nice. But I’d bet on pirate/corsair with a pistol & curved sword

[Styrmwyda]

A upgraded rogue would be nice. But I’d bet on pirate/corsair with a pistol & curved sword

I was actually thinking of something like that, but replace sword with one handed axe, since in FF14 pirates are more associated with axes.

[Duskane]

very unlikely they would do 2 melee in a row
but it could be classed as a ranged dps but uses scouting gear

[Iscah]

but it could be classed as a ranged dps but uses scouting gear

Just like dancer should have been in the first place.

[Styrmwyda]

very unlikely they would do 2 melee in a row
but it could be classed as a ranged dps but uses scouting gear

Why would a ranged DPS use Scouting + Aiming instead of just Aiming?

[ForsakenRoe]

Personally i'd have preferred it if way back when, we deleted Striking and Scouting. At the time, SAM wasn't even out, so MNK would have moved to share with DRG (SAM too, now), meaning a lot more variety between armored/clothy style gear for MNK/SAM. At the same time, NIN and the Aiming sets are often just recolors of one another, and NIN already shares Aiming accessories. We've got 7 gear types when 5 would do the same work (and make it easier to gear alts)

I think it's caster definitely, and if they do a second job, a tank or a physranged. We've not had a new caster since SB, and a new tank/ranged since SHB. Something tells me they'd want to keep the tanks at 4 for reasons, and it'd be easier to just do another Ranged.

The real copium is that they announce a ranged (bringing it up to 4) and a full rework of BLU to make it real (bringing casters up to 4). I can see it now, they say 'there will only be one new job sorry it's very hard on the devs to keep adding two new jobs so we're gonna do just one new one this time', then at the end of the final fanfest, the CEO comes out in a BLU costume again and said 'There is a second job announcement, BLU is real'. It's not a 'new job', so it wasn't lying, just 'slight misdirection'. The hype would be insanely high, I think, if BLU was made real. It'd also be a complete acceptance on the devs' part, that 'limited jobs' did not work out, which would buy some player goodwill. OFC, some people like BLU as it currently is, which is why I think there's a way to keep the current form of it alive too, it just requires designing it in a specific way.

[SweetPete]

Personally i'd have preferred it if way back when, we deleted Striking and Scouting. At the time, SAM wasn't even out, so MNK would have moved to share with DRG (SAM too, now), meaning a lot more variety between armored/clothy style gear for MNK/SAM. At the same time, NIN and the Aiming sets are often just recolors of one another, and NIN already shares Aiming accessories. We've got 7 gear types when 5 would do the same work (and make it easier to gear alts)

I think it's caster definitely, and if they do a second job, a tank or a physranged. We've not had a new caster since SB, and a new tank/ranged since SHB. Something tells me they'd want to keep the tanks at 4 for reasons, and it'd be easier to just do another Ranged.

The real copium is that they announce a ranged (bringing it up to 4) and a full rework of BLU to make it real (bringing casters up to 4). I can see it now, they say 'there will only be one new job sorry it's very hard on the devs to keep adding two new jobs so we're gonna do just one new one this time', then at the end of the final fanfest, the CEO comes out in a BLU costume again and said 'There is a second job announcement, BLU is real'. It's not a 'new job', so it wasn't lying, just 'slight misdirection'. The hype would be insanely high, I think, if BLU was made real. It'd also be a complete acceptance on the devs' part, that 'limited jobs' did not work out, which would buy some player goodwill. OFC, some people like BLU as it currently is, which is why I think there's a way to keep the current form of it alive too, it just requires designing it in a specific way.

I can totally see BLU happening as a real job to bring casters to 4.

[ICountFrom0]

Why would a ranged DPS use Scouting + Aiming instead of just Aiming?

In order to prioritize different stats and a different playstyle.
Instead of having 3 classes that want exactly the same stats and are playing to the same style, you could, in this case, have other stats that matter, different gear stats that give those, and a different style of play highlighted.


This won't actually happen, CRIT will win in the end over everything, and "do more DPS" will be the only thing that matters.

[True-to-Caesar]

I was actually thinking of something like that, but replace sword with one handed axe, since in FF14 pirates are more associated with axes.

As a sword enjoyer, Guild Wars 1 made me hate axes with a passion. The very reason I don’t play warrior.

I can totally see BLU happening as a real job to bring casters to 4.

They have a whole system made for BLU, collections etc. It won’t happen and be a mess if they did. They’ll no doubt start with something fresh.