New Jobs in Each Expansion

[Marcus89]

Forgive me if this has been pointed out before, but it occurred to me that in each expansion since Shadowbringers, one of the new jobs that came out with that expansion was directly related to whichever previous Final Fantasy game most influenced that expansion.

1. Shadowbringers introduced Gunbreaker, and was most influenced by Final Fantasy 8 (the Eden raids, etc.). Gunbreaker is obviously based on Squall and Seifer from 8.
2. Endwalker introduced Sage, and was most influenced by Final Fantasy 4 (the moon, the Loporrits, the Four Fiends, etc.). Tellah the Sage was a memorable character from 4.
3. Dawntrail introduced Viper, and was most influenced by Final Fantasy 9 (Alexandria, etc.). The Viper weapon is reminiscent of Zidane's "Thief Sword" weapons from 9.

Using this information, we could either a), speculate on which job might be introduced next, if we know ahead of time which previous Final Fantasy game will most influence the next expansion, or b), if we learn the new job first, speculate about which previous Final Fantasy game will most influence the next expansion.

[Kes13a]

I would prefer zero, and in NO new jobs until they fix what they have already. why add more garbage to the same pile? why not stop, FIX and then add if they can.

diluting the soup even further never makes it better... just worse all around.

no new jobs. no new races.
fix what is broken FIRST

[ryouma17]

i vote next expansion be based on FF7 so we can get a soldier type job, iam tired of big two handers being tank exclusive i want to run around as a dps with a big sword and not be forced to play a tank if i want a two hander

[Mijeme]

They already said Fem Roth was the last race to be added.

[Jeeqbit]

They already said Fem Roth was the last race to be added.

They originally said that Hrothgar and Viera were the last races to be added. But then they got pressured by the community to add Male Viera and Female Hrothgar. At the time of that, they said that although it would probably be the last, they may be pressured to add more like they were with the Male Viera and Female Hrothgar.

However, it would probably take posts with hundreds of replies like those did for it to happen and it makes the process of developing gear even more taxing because of having to adjust it for more races, and obviously they still haven't managed the hats and customization options.

[MikkoAkure]

I would prefer zero, and in NO new jobs until they fix what they have already. why add more garbage to the same pile? why not stop, FIX and then add if they can.

diluting the soup even further never makes it better... just worse all around.

no new jobs. no new races.
fix what is broken FIRST

I second no new jobs.

I believe they also said they don't know if we're increasing the level cap past 100 or if they'll do a full job/gameplay overhaul with some sort of reset or something like merits from FFXI. If it's the latter then I'd prefer them to add no new jobs so they can concentrate on fixing up what we have now instead of spending the resources to make something new and having to balance it. The job roster is already bloated enough as it is.

If they have to add 1 new job, I'd hope it's a ranged physical and they can somehow use it to balance out that whole mess that group has. Maybe Blitzballer from FFX like people have been talking about for years here? Maybe split the ranged physicals into debuffers and supporters? Work that into Meracydia being covered in ancient ruined machina cities and Thancred laughs like a seagull?

[Daralii]

I would prefer zero, and in NO new jobs until they fix what they have already. why add more garbage to the same pile? why not stop, FIX and then add if they can.

diluting the soup even further never makes it better... just worse all around.

no new jobs. no new races.
fix what is broken FIRST

I'm expecting them to not add any jobs next expansion because of the reworks, but I'm also expecting the reworks to ruin what remains or change very little. I have zero faith in the battle content designers at this point, especially if they're split between XIV and the unnamed CS3 project.

[Derio]

If they do a new job it needs to be only 1 job and it needs to be Physical Ranged and then rebalance physical ranged dps as a whole. The other efforts can be done on all the other jobs. Honestly I would be happier if they did 0 new jobs and focused on improving the existing jobs.

[ViinaS]

They originally said that Hrothgar and Viera were the last races to be added. But then they got pressured by the community to add Male Viera and Female Hrothgar.

Alright, read that once more and very careful this time.
They got pressured into making male Vier aand female Hroth cause they didn't deliver both races but only half of each.
This was entirely due to half-assing it.

However, it would probably take posts with hundreds of replies like those did for it to happen and it makes the process of developing gear even more taxing because of having to adjust it for more races, and obviously they still haven't managed the hats and customization options.

Which is an absolute embarrassment.
I am not interested in any more races, all I was asking for was Viera due to their presence throughout of FF.
However after 6 years of still having these races being unfinished this "taxing workload" argument falls flat. It's just negligence and laziness.

[Connor]

I absolutely agree they shouldn’t add any more next expansion until they’ve dealt the existing ones lol.

That said I absolutely believe SE is genuinely stupid enough to try and push out two more jobs next expansion and just make every other job in the game suffer (again lol)