What Class Archetypes Are We Missing?

[RitsukoSonoda]

And why they did the same to WHM with elemental magic.

Kinda did the same to RDM imo. Job has pretty much only seen development in ranged casting. The melee aspect of it feels like it's been forgotten by the dev team so your sword is mostly just a sharp staff.

[Rithy255]

Kinda did the same to RDM imo. Job has pretty much only seen development in ranged casting. The melee aspect of it feels like it's been forgotten by the dev team so your sword is mostly just a sharp staff.

This is why I'd want a Soft red mage rework.

Personally I don't think sword strikes should be for burst, but instead should be a slight gain that your able to use outside burst for mobility when near bosses, In general I'd want more sword action on red mage, with burst it should be fully ranged Imo, at least how RDM kinda struggles with the "2minute meta" due to being forced into melee when they don't always want to be.

I don't know how much of a rework they should go for, but currently RDM's design just really doesn't work with bursts, It could if you made the Melee phase much more of a small gain while making it's burst something separate, I doubt they would but honestly I just want RDM to shine more as a unique caster.
I really would love to see RDM, become stronger in the white magic department akasupport elements (without just punishing the job as harshly as they do for said support elements, the current "damage trade" for verraise and magick barrier is way too much).

A job that actually uses a shield. Paladin has like 3 abilities that use it, one of which you never press, so most of the time it's just kind of there.

PLD also needs a rework (it got a half quick rework that just made it slightly more functional, but the job is still a mess in some areas), Shield bash needs to be a actual skill, I wouldn't also mind more shield attacks, Sword play with shield play, Protecting allies/party and some magic should be PLD's identity

[RitsukoSonoda]

This is why I'd want a Soft red mage rework.

Personally I don't think sword strikes should be for burst, but instead should be a slight gain that your able to use outside burst for mobility when near bosses, In general I'd want more sword action on red mage, with burst it should be fully ranged Imo, at least how RDM kinda struggles with the "2minute meta" due to being forced into melee when they don't always want to be.

I don't know how much of a rework they should go for, but currently RDM's design just really doesn't work with bursts, It could if you made the Melee phase much more of a small gain while making it's burst something separate, I doubt they would but honestly I just want RDM to shine more as a unique caster.
I really would love to see RDM, become stronger in the white magic department akasupport elements (without just punishing the job as harshly as they do for said support elements, the current "damage trade" for verraise and magick barrier is way too much).


PLD also needs a rework (it got a half quick rework that just made it slightly more functional, but the job is still a mess in some areas), Shield bash needs to be a actual skill, I wouldn't also mind more shield attacks, Sword play with shield play, Protecting allies/party and some magic should be PLD's identity

Given that the way FFXIV is designed wouldn't really RDM be a true RDM without being a limited job, I feel like instead of the ver-element spells for ranged casting they should have looked at FFXI and made the EN-element spells of that game into magical elemental sword strikes for it's primary damage output keeping the white/black balance aspect to either power a more powerful combo or some kind of big kaboom magic burst ranged attack.

[DamianFatale]

I REALLY want a nature caster. Not a healer, a caster. Geomancer would fit the bill, which I'm annoyed that it may take four to six years to find out if we will ever get it. :/

[Roda]

*Takes a crowbar to the bard and archer archetypes*

[Mostly_Raxus]

just spitballing here threw pure rule of cool but here it goes:

i want a sort of sudo melee summoner..
Idontknow~ call it a Ekion Eater; you channel the summons in to yourself to make you a more potent fighter, aka lady iceheart and reyn for instance, it could play with different summons the summoner doesn't have room for, it could be a damage dealer or a tank..

[Rolder50]

just spitballing here threw pure rule of cool but here it goes:

i want a sort of sudo melee summoner..
Idontknow~ call it a Ekion Eater; you channel the summons in to yourself to make you a more potent fighter, aka lady iceheart and reyn for instance, it could play with different summons the summoner doesn't have room for, it could be a damage dealer or a tank..

I wish this game had sub jobs. Like you could take summoner and pick the current summoner, or go the alternate route and be a tank using your idea.

[Senn]

One archetype I am interested in particular would be oracle/geomancer (Eastern themed magic. Uses bells, talismans, or both)
I think it would also be cool to have a whip blade class.

[RitsukoSonoda]

One archetype I am interested in particular would be oracle/geomancer (Eastern themed magic. Uses bells, talismans, or both)
I think it would also be cool to have a whip blade class.

Whip blade class... Would the artifact armor be a super skimpy leotard?

[Senn]

Whip blade class... Would the artifact armor be a super skimpy leotard?

lol you could certainly go down the soul calibur route

although I was thinking more this vibe


You could even call it a spell blade. A cool concept for this class would be infusing your sword with different elements. Like a fire whip blade like you see in the picture. But could be water, electric, etc...