Thread: 7.0 Poster Class

Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

So unless everyone in the world dies and requires some kind of mass resurrection we're not likely to see boxart boy as a healer.

As long as the theme of the expansion favours a healer main character, they might do it. If we ever get a expansion themed around undead enemies I am willing to bet the poster WoL will be a healer

They might even smack Krile in there as the sidekick Sword/Shield of the WoL during the expac (if they wanna sell a new DPS/Tank in the poster)

Originally Posted by Raraka

As long as the theme of the expansion favours a healer main character, they might do it. If we ever get a expansion themed around undead enemies I am willing to bet the poster WoL will be a healer

They might even smack Krile in there as the sidekick Sword/Shield of the WoL during the expac (if they wanna sell a new DPS/Tank in the poster)

If it were a normal FF game sure. Healer VS Undead... but this is FFXIV where just about every traditional RPG mechanic has been stripped from the game so we can burn fire elementals to death, stab slimes to death, drain HP from undead (before the spell was removed as button bloat), etc...

Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

It already exists in the game, I think? Not as a job, but I vaguely remember it being a part of the AST quests.


To the OP: Probably BLM. It's Yoshi's favorite class and it'd be the first caster. Also isn't a "dark mage" sort of a big rpg thing? Like it should happen at some point.

Geomancy had a small cameo role in the AST quests.
Meanwhile Geomancy is the star of an entire quest line, raid series and dungeon, in the Four Lords, with Geomancers themselves appearing in Swallows Compass as enemies.
Why does everyone forget this?

Originally Posted by Heroman3003

It doesnt mean we wont go there. Important thing to remember is that things can be written without being meant to be hints for future; and then in retrospect other things are written based off past things, turning them into hints only retroactively. A lot of ff14's writing does that rather cleverly, so possibility of 13th is not entirely out of picture just because of Yoshi-P's words.

I'd wager that saying "there are no hints to where 7.0 will go" right in the middle of a heavily 13th focus MSQ quest line, is fairly clear indication that 7.0 has nothing to do with the 13th.

-New 7.0 Job

- Bard: WoL was also a gladiator at one point, I think and he became a Paladin this expansion. So Bard wouldn't be out of the question.

- Summoner: The primals in Eoreza aren't a threat anymore, so I can see the WoL taking full advantage of this going Summoner.

My bet is on some new job which will be a dual wielding Techno Barbarian.

If we're going to Meracydia then we have to assume that place is a barren wasteland filled with remnants of Allagan technology that natives picked up.

If the WoL is a new class it might be Dyamis related.
Something like
Empathic Seer.
And he just chucks dynamite at everything cause he has no idea how dynamis works still.

Random thought that crossed my mind.

We got a new Healer job in Endwalker and after Stormblood we are not likely to get 2 new DPS in a single expansion so 7.0 if they stay with 2 jobs per expansion will most likely be tank + DPS
7.0 could be the first chapter of a long saga like the one we just finished at the start of Endwalker making it possibly like a fresh start.
So based on those 2 things... Poster job as a new Tank job Freelancer. It would use a Bastard sword or hand and a half sword with no shield so it could be used 1 or 2 handed depending on the skill used and its skills wouldn't be anything super flashy. It would be a real "meat and potatoes" grounded type of tank loaded with skills often given as basic things to beginner jobs in the FF series like Throw Stone.