Future new Physcial Ranged DPS Job

[ChuckstarUK]

Thinking that we are long overdue a new a Physical Ranged DPS job - my suggestion SE is Whipcracker. All sorts of cool things you could do with a whip!!

[mallleable]

I'm starting to really want Corsair as like a pirate themed gun, and sword using phys ranged. Also consider this, imagine that the 7.0 McGuffin gets taken by a villain in the lead-up to 8.0, and so we have to steal it back as a pirate. it would make a good poster job.

[Lyth]

I think Whips/Flails/Yo-yos are an interesting weapon class that could sit in more of an 'intermediate range', which would make it an interesting addition to the Physical Ranged roster. It was mentioned in a Dawntrail interview that there were issues with the 'bones' in the weapon model skeleton that made implementation difficult.

A Corsair or Gunslinger are both options, especially if you went the dual pistols route. I'd love to play a Physical Ranged job that had an increased circle strafe rate.

A juggler/jongleur with thrown weapons is another option. Chemist is another possibility too, because you could implement a 'mix' system with thrown items that possibly also involves ground effects. Either way, I'd predict that Physical Ranged is probably one of the next releases, alongside a new Tank if we're following the pattern.

[Sunako]

How about slingshot user like One Piece Usopp?

[Carighan]

Thinking that we are long overdue a new a Physical Ranged DPS job

We got one recently, with Summoner? :P

[Lyth]

They might as well remove the distinction between Physical Ranged and Magical Ranged and merge it down into a single category, given the amount of instant casts flying around at this point. Then the job release cycle would be M/R, T/R, H/M.

That being said, I think there's a lot more creative potential for Physical Ranged job aesthetics at this point.

[RedHeaven]

A whip-wielding job may be unlikely if this article from the Dawntrail media tour is to be believed:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fanta...interview-jobs

It claims that Yoshi-P said the design process for potential new jobs goes over the weapon first and that they've considered whips before but decided against it as it would use too many 'bones', making it too complex.

[CKNovel]

It claims that Yoshi-P said the design process for potential new jobs goes over the weapon first and that they've considered whips before but decided against it as it would use too many 'bones', making it too complex.

Hard doesn't mean impossible.
They also said 3 jobs per expansion won't happen again or that they'll never do something like Ninja again.
They also said Viera and Hrothgar would be the last races.

So while a whip job is unlikely it's not entirely impossible.

[MonsutaMan]

A Magitek class with an arm cannon


Feel they could have a Magitek Beastmaster too, like a Zoid.

[elioaiko]

I have a feeling we might get a blitzball job. Ik ppl have been wanting blitzball to be a golden saucer mode but the devs kinda gave up on that since it was too hard to add.

But I can see a job since Wakka was a playable character in FF10.