It looks like we have 8 jobs left

[Vandso]

They said they have content for 10 more years, which means Dawntrail and four more expansions. If we follow the rules they've been doing since Stormblood, which are 2 jobs per expansion and no jobs from the same role and armor set in two consecutive expansions, we get to something like this:

- Fending and Aiming
- Striking and Healing
- Maiming and Casting
- Scouting and Aiming

That means that in the end will have 5 Tanks, 5 Healers, 9 Melee Dps, 5 Physical Ranged Dps and 5 Magical Ranged Dps (and probably one more limited job). Of course, they can still expand the game from this point on, and I belive they can at least make the fives be sixes, but for now this is what is almost certain to happen. So what are your bets and hopes for the next jobs? Here are mine:

Fending: Mystic Knight with a scimitar
Maiming: A job with two axes
Striking: A job with a quarterstaff
Scouting: Corsair with sword and pistol
Aiming 1: Puppetmaster. The mammet will be the weapon.
Aiming 2: Blitzballer
Casting: Geomancer with two bells
Healing: No idea. Maybe Chemist?
Limited: Gambler with throwing darts

[Supersnow845]

“No job from the same role in consecutive expansions”

> expansion 2 striking
> expansion 3 maiming

I’m once again here to tell people that the sub melee armour distinctions are meaningless

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

... I was just baffled by the fact you're right. We never had two melees in two consecutive expansions. My worldview is a lie.

[Aword3213]

Unpopular opinion here, but I think they should stop adding new jobs completely. Another job with 120s burst window and 123 combo alongside 50 points gauge spender does not excite me at all.

Instead, I want them to give unique identities to each job, create and maintain engaging gameplay even in synched content, and revamping outdated content such as Guildhest, Hall of Novice…etc

[Duskane]

this is under the assumption that we will always get 2 jobs per expansion
would not surprise me once tanks and Healers get even out its 1 dps per expansion after that

“No job from the same role in consecutive expansions”

> expansion 2 striking
> expansion 3 maiming

I’m once again here to tell people that the sub melee armour distinctions are meaningless

to you but its clear the devs have this in mind

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

Unpopular opinion here, but I think they should stop adding new jobs completely. Another job with 120s burst window and 123 combo alongside 50 points gauge spender does not excite me at all.

Instead, I want them to give unique identities to each job, create and maintain engaging gameplay even in synched content, and revamping outdated content such as Guildhest, Hall of Novice…etc

They do said something like that about next expansion being the "job identity one" during the last LL. I do hope we get something along this line. And a new tank. I've been wanting my mage tank for ten years.

[rawker]

All tanks we have at the moment are wielding bladed weapons. Hopefully the next tank have a different weapon style.

[hunter2]

I think we're likely to only get 1 new job in 8.0, alongside an attempt at overhauling job gameplay and restoring some identity.

My top picks for new jobs are Corsair, Juggler, and some kind of Sniper/Ranger for people who like bows but not music.

[Ayche]

All tanks we have at the moment are wielding bladed weapons. Hopefully the next tank have a different weapon style.

Agreed. We should get a tank with a BIG ROCK, and you just bash people with the BIG ROCK.

[Vandso]

“No job from the same role in consecutive expansions”

> expansion 2 striking
> expansion 3 maiming

I’m once again here to tell people that the sub melee armour distinctions are meaningless

I used the logical conjunction "and", which means that both of the arguments have to be true for the whole sentence to be true. In other words, if one thing is true and the other thing is true, then the whole proposition is true, if not, the proposition is false. So as I said, no jobs from the same role and armor set have been in two consecutive expansions, which has proven to be true so far. We got Samurai and then Reaper, but they are of different armor sets even though they are melee.