New Classes

[Cairdeas]

I think a lot of you are thinking of classes as individual jobs from XI and that isn't really the case.


Classes are a bunch of jobs compressed into one tree.

A Conjurer is both a White Mage and a Black Mage or can specialize.

Thats why I've always supported a Job Title System ontop of the Class System.

Equip the White Mage job title to your Conjurer and any White Magic based skills you equip give you a bonus to stats to equip them while non-white mage abilities give no bonuses. Then have the job title augment the secondary ability that the class learns turning it into a makeshift 2hr/ohshitbutton like from XI.

[Sephr]

Equip the White Mage job title to your Conjurer and any White Magic based skills you equip give you a bonus to stats to equip them while non-white mage abilities give no bonuses. Then have the job title augment the secondary ability that the class learns turning it into a makeshift 2hr/ohshitbutton like from XI.

This is pretty much what I would like. Sort of like the Scholar Dark and Light arts of FFXI if you played it, except you can't change them on the fly and equipment can be used based on specialisation. Certain spells and skills could only be unlocked if you were a specific specialisation (Tier III nukes for Black Mage etc)

[AngryNixon]

Accountant?

something like:

The Accountant uses File Tax Return on Dodore
Dodore uses Possible Audit
The Accountant parries the Possible Audit
Dodore takes 10,000 damage
The Accountant successfully Files Tax Return
The Accountant gains Refund

See... Now doesn't that sound exciting?

[Cairdeas]

That sounds like the guys asking for Politician as a class in The Old Republic.

[AngryNixon]

That sounds like the guys asking for Politician as a class in The Old Republic.

... That class would be nowhere near as interesting as Accountant. What would Politician do exactly? Parry and Evade everything and be incapable of doing anything else?

[Kallera]

Scholar - Measure
Thief/Assassin - Knife
Monk(Or Guardian) - Bo Staff
Puppetmaster - controller-or that stick thing.
Geomancer- Bangles/markings(if bangles, make it more ritualistic gloves, not something you'd smash faces in with like the PUG.)

[Sephr]

I think it'd be neat to get a buff class like Arcanist supposedly was that had a mini-game involved with buffing. We already have little game things associated with DoH, it would be great if they transferred into combat too.
Bard could apply this, for example a small set of strings could appear on the screen and you simply have to hit the right one at the right time over the course of the casting (would have to be fairly slow-paced) purely to make things more interesting.
I loved bard back in Aht Urghan merit parties for the fast pace and the fact you essentically decided if the party did well, but something like a mini-game would be great for making those tasks more fun.

I think this could be applied to all classes though to be honest, special moves that acted like the limit breaks of old where you time button presses to get more strikes. It would have to be client-side to avoid lag, but i dont think that would be too big a problem although I wonder how exploitable it would be.

[Velhart]

Dark Knight - Greatsword
Musketeer - Gun
Samurai - Great Katana
Ninja - Katana
Thief - Dagger
Summoner - Whip
Bard - Instrument
Engineer - Hammer/Tools

[Tyrzea]

Dark Knight - Greatsword
Musketeer - Gun
Samurai - Great Katana
Ninja - Katana
Thief - Dagger
Summoner - Whip
Bard - Instrument
Engineer - Hammer/Tools

Is it my impression or the whole bunch of blood thirsty people want more tools to kill more and faster?
Velahrt is the only one who mentioned Bard!
I wish SE bring Bard and many tunes into the game under one condition: every song has its unique tune - no more "King Minnie" tunes for everything. It's an insult to music!

[ckb]

Dark Knight - Scythe

There, fixed that for ya. Dark Knight & Samurai are really fun jobs.

Ninja implemented somehow

As long as things like utsusemi don't exist i'm all for it.

Before adding new classes they should... I don't know... fix the ones in the game now that clearly don't work. And before you ask that naive question of which: its all of them.

I couldn't agree more.

I dont know why most people when they hear about "what new classes u want" they talk about "old" classes from FFXI.

The majority of classes from XI are staples of the series with the first 6 jobs dating back to FFI.

My view is that XIV suffers most from not sticking to the robust foundation of FF lore and trying to go too far in another direction. The jobs/classes don't have to function exactly as they did in XI but they need role definition. It seems impossible to acheive that end with the abomination of TP spamming mix and match we know as the armory system. I won't begin to say that I have the answer but maybe (assuming the final cap is 75) allow players to have that main job/class and pick skills from 2 other jobs/classes up to level 37. It would be different than the sub job system and still allow for changing roles based on what the player is doing. *Just a suggestion to go with my complaint.

In the end I think that XIV needs to draw from what has worked with jobs/classes and the battle system. While I wouldn't mind FFXI-2, I also realize that XI had it's fair share of issues (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...1-LOYALTY-MODE if you need a few specifics) and thought XIV would build off of the foundation of XI to provide a superior experience. To this date it has done quite the opposite. Until things change I'll remain cautiously optimistic and keep waiting for the mystery patch that fixes everything.