Expansion Idea: New city with new guild and weapons

[KorPoni]

An expansion that introduces a new region with a new city in it with guilds for new classes. The classes would be unlocked by getting the Weathered Katana (Bushi, which is kind of a cross of Samurai and Ninja), and Weathered Doll (Shaman, which is something of a Blue Mage that can also use enemy-controlling abilities.)

Bushi (Disciple of War): Masters of the Katana and Great Katana, Bushi can dual-wield Katana, but not the Great Katana, a 2-handed weapon. Most abilities focus on gaining or using TP, or Ninjutsu-type stealth abilities that consume MP. There should be a list of throwing weapons restricted to just the Bushi that play similar to NIN's elemental throwing weapons that NIN has used throughout the FF series.
Abilities: Cut (Base attack), Iai-Do (Does extra damage if used from passive mode), Throw (Throws currently equipped throwing weapon.)

Shaman (Disciple of Magic): Wielding voodoo dolls or charms, Shaman damage enemies by imitating harm to their weapons. As a spellcaster, their base attack carries the same range as other DoM, and most abilities learned are spells. Also, since so much enemy interaction occurs between a Shaman and it's opponent's essence, they can absorb the enemy's abilities as Blue Magic.
Abilities: Snap (Base attack), Essence Scan (Check enemy HP and MP, possibly learn Blue Magic spell from them), Essence Scan II (Same as Essence Scan, but higher chance to learn Blue Magic spell), Various Blue Magic spells (Learnable at certain ranks, not as lenient as BLU in FFXI due to the game's "everyone can use it" play style.)

Story: I still haven't fully played through the main storyline quests, so for now any suggestions?

[Lienn]

Bushi is no classic job ^^: But can be samurai or, like was used at FFTA2, Parivir (they all the same thing in the end...its just the name that doesn't match). I know you mean the twin katana user, right, the one that uses a long and a short katana for combat. I'd just use the Parivir name for it since it seems to fit the job best.

I tossed them a similar idea a few days ago...but i asked a flying fortress so we could have sky pirate (its pretty classic now...many FFs past X had sky pirates) ^^ But my suggestion was regarding "factions HQ".

[KorPoni]

Parivir sounds like an idea too. I was avoiding the names Samurai or Ninja because introducing the class might bring in jobs like Samurai or Ninja ontop of it.

Shaman obviously is pretty much a Blue Mage, but each Final Fantasy seems to keep having a different system of Blue Magic users, such as limit breaks, races, Gun Mage in FFX-2, or simply Blue Mage in a few titles also. I wouldn't know another job from Shaman besides BLU though, since the class seems to be so blue magic-related by my design...I'll see if I can't come up with something else also, or anyone else.

[Catapult]

New city?

Hello, Ishgard!

[KorPoni]

New city?

Hello, Ishgard!

Too bad that wouldn't introduce a new region though. I wouldn't complain if they made an expansion that introduced Ishguard though, and wouldn't be suprised if it were the first one either.

[Catapult]

Also, given the map of Eorzea, it seems HIGHLY likely that Sharlayan and Ala Mhigo will feature in future expansions, which will require new areas around them.

They need to stretch this content out over a good number of years mind you. One bit at a time and Ishgard is already on their agenda for post-battle system changes.

[Eruantien]

I would imagine Ishgard would bring about a new region, the other side of it.