8.0 speculation of the new Job weapon

[ThorinG]

Spoiler for 7.4 story

When we were introduced to the new Ascian Halmarut, we were also reintroduced to Calyx in the form of a (Doll).
So, what if this was a tease to the new Job, a Doll wielding fighter maybe?
Now dolls as weapons are not new to the Final Fantasy series, as they were used in FFX by Lulu.

Im not saying that the new job is a caster since we just got one, but if they are actually used, what do you think they might be?

[Luluna]

Lulu was one of my all time favourite characters and her job was so much fun. It would be great if you could use dolls, not sure how it would work but you never know

[Daralii]

XI had Puppetmaster, but I don't know how they'd keep it interesting without it being a limited job. The formula says that the next jobs will be a tank and phys ranged, as we'll have looped back around from GNB and DNC in ShB.

[Luluna]

XI had Puppetmaster, but I don't know how they'd keep it interesting without it being a limited job. The formula says that the next jobs will be a tank and phys ranged, as we'll have looped back around from GNB and DNC in ShB.

I mained PUP and Dancer in XI for a long time and it was a very complex job but it was so much fun. There where so many ways you could play from support to healer to tank was amazing. Like you say I am not sure they could keep it interesting but PUP would be such a great addition to the game. My worry is they would have to gut it and it would not be what we have in FFXI.

[Tsiron]

I'm fairly confident the Tank will use Hammers since it's a weapon type that's come up a lot in-game (e.g. Nero, Gaia) and that the devs have outright mentioned considering before, but I'm less so when it comes to a ranged DPS... I would guess Blitzballs, but maybe not if the devs feel they'd then have to implement the minigame in some capacity. Cannoneer has come up in recent events, so it might be that...?

Dolls feel like a caster weapon through and through to me, though

[Asari5]

tridents or glaives

sure they both are already in the game in the shape of dragoon spears. but at dome point there are little unused weapons left. and if you exclude all the weapons we have glams of that would be pretty restricting.

also i wouldnt mind different jobs with shared weapons but different fighting styles. like summoner and schoolar nowadays. it could also mean a shared weapon glam pool for jobs with similar / the same weapon


edit: tridents let me think of neptune. a trident fighter with water magic would be awesome... like llymlaen. could be a melee or a magic range.

glaives could fit a really slow heavy hitting melee... or a heavy tank. (that could be a melee without positionals... also: give back dragoons and monks positionals xD)

talking about polearms and llymlaen there is also halone who wields a spear with a small shield. thats another possibility for a tank

[Avenheit]

tridents or glaives

sure they both are already in the game in the shape of dragoon spears. but at dome point there are little unused weapons left. and if you exclude all the weapons we have glams of that would be pretty restricting.

also i wouldnt mind different jobs with shared weapons but different fighting styles. like summoner and schoolar nowadays. it could also mean a shared weapon glam pool for jobs with similar / the same weapon


edit: tridents let me think of neptune. a trident fighter with water magic would be awesome... like llymlaen. could be a melee or a magic range.

glaives could fit a really slow heavy hitting melee... or a heavy tank. (that could be a melee without positionals... also: give back dragoons and monks positionals xD)

talking about polearms and llymlaen there is also halone who wields a spear with a small shield. thats another possibility for a tank

ive been playing a lot of diablo 4 lately, spiritborn uses a glaive.

they would be very cool.

A new tank that also uses a shield would be pretty cool, although i hope they'd use a tower shield rather than bucklers.

[AlliciaCapulet]

I'd rather have no new jobs, and them fixing the current jobs, giving them back an identity and also different play style. Thinking of tanks or heals here that are all too similars from one job vs another, versus when we think of the good old time.

But if we had to choose, I think that tank and healer are the next jobs that we should have, there was 2 DPS on the last expansion so it would feels right for those player base to have their turn

[Garruss]

8.0 Should be a new tank and healer, I think we have enough DPS

[GraceHorizon]

Following the pattern of what they’ve been adding each expansion so far (except Heavensward) I expect a new tank and ranged physical DPS. I’m going for some FFXIII inspiration on this one:

Tank weapon: staff, based on Fang as Sentinel from FFXIII. We have plenty of staff mages, but no staff physical fighters yet.

Ranged physical DPS weapon: boomerang, based on Hope. This one’s a bit more tenuous because Hope was more of a magic user, but he always had a boomerang. Shoutout also to Yuffie from FFVII.