My “Next job” predictions: “Scouting” and “Fending”

[SweetPete]

to be honest, I dont care what is added but whatever it is should be designed around harder playstyles requiring brainpower and punish you when you mess up

Oh gosh no. Can you imagine. If we’re nearly gonna kill a boss and people start to mess up their rotation and is punished and we lose out on that good damage for the kill then we gotta start all over again. No thanks. Just don’t make jobs super simple. Bring back some complexity/decision making like before.

[Limecat]

I'm expecting scouting ranged physical and a magic DPS for the same numbers-balancing reasons as everyone else.

[Deceptus]

My bet:

They start going down to only 1 bonus job per expansion. Scouting seems like the most logical choice because it desperately needs a gear share.

[Ishe-P]

They should really mix things up with a Magical Melee DPS. Wouldn't that be something.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

They should really mix things up with a Magical Melee DPS. Wouldn't that be something.

We call that Drk ma'am
XD but seriously, Rune Knight or some Magic Melee crossbreed would be neat.
They also scratch the surface abit with Redmage

[Ishe-P]

OOOOO imagine if they did like a face-heel turn and made DRK a dps job! It would be so divisive you'd think ARR happened all over again! Man, this game needs a shot in the arm, this is what I'm saying.

[RitsukoSonoda]

OOOOO imagine if they did like a face-heel turn and made DRK a dps job! It would be so divisive you'd think ARR happened all over again! Man, this game needs a shot in the arm, this is what I'm saying.

Previous games had DRK as a self destructive tank. It could soak damage just about as well as every other tank until it started using job abilities/skills that boosted damage output. The average gamer's tendency towards "OOO BIG NUMBERS" resulted in most thinking it wasn't a tank since they were always stripping their own defense while eating their own HP.

As for new jobs in 7.0...

New DPS job that uses scouting gear

If they do a 2nd job then tank simply because we got a new healer in Endwalker and I don't expect them to release 2 new DPS again after all the queue complaints in Stormblood.

The only other thing that's standing out to me is how people lump all the melee DPS jobs together but separate ranged into 2 sub classes based on gear set when melee has 3 different gear sets. Currently we have 5 melee DPS options and 6 Ranged DPS options.

[VictorSpoils]

If they do go to the New World, they can make BLU fans happy and turn it into a full job. Wouldn't even need to think of a new caster.

And maybe another Scouting job would actually get more people to use NIN.

[RitsukoSonoda]

If they do go to the New World, they can make BLU fans happy and turn it into a full job. Wouldn't even need to think of a new caster.

And maybe another Scouting job would actually get more people to use NIN.

I don't see BLU ever being moved out of the limited job category since the concept of it doesn't work if shoehorned into a single role. However I would like it to at least have the same level cap as every other job in game and have the ability to freely queue duties that don't have role composition restrictions like eureka/bozja

[Reinha]

It will be scouting and caster.