Thread: 8.0 speculation

Originally Posted by Cleretic

They said that the jobs would be originals, but they also act like Viper is 'original', and it's not.

Also, Musketeer is probably permanently on the shelf because they tried to crack that thing from 1.0 through to Heavensward before eventually going 'this isn't working, Machinist will'. My guess has always been that they ran headlong into the same problem every single MMO since FFXI has faced, that 'Shoots Good' is not enough of a gimmick to make a whole job skillset out of, you need to add something else. And so Machinist solved the Musketeer problem by adding gadgets.

Yeah, "original job to FF14" is a descriptor that should be taken with a large grain of salt. Some "FF14 original" jobs haven't exactly been entirely original to FF14 given they have clear inspiration from previously seen jobs/characters, and some other "FF14 not-original" jobs like Sage actually exist completely separately from their historic namesakes. Probably best to just keep your options open to what the actual jobs end up being instead of worrying too much about the names.

That said, it's a massive "Please No!" from me for any job related in any way to Blitzball and/or Wakka. I actually wouldn't hate Blitzball showing up in FF14 as some sort of Gold Saucer game but keep it away from the combat jobs plz.

We can speculate on the weapons they use since the names can be anything. Since the tank is a main tank, it could use double shield or hammer + shield but they will come in pairs instead of separate like Paladin's sword and shield. The physical ranged dps can use arm gun like Barrett or maybe double guns like Yuna in FFX-2.