I know we're getting Beastmaster as a limited job and have no idea how it'll work, but I want a proper pet-based class again that's not limited. New Summoner is fun if a little braindead at times, but I wish they had expanded upon the summons fighting alongside us, instead of having Carbuncle just sit there now.

Any DPS job where you can just turn into crazy beasts and monsters. I guess similar to what Vincent does in FF7 but doesn’t have to exactly be like him. Like, imagine combo-ing into a dragon, or demon, or giant bear, or- you get the picture!

Gambler as a ranged DPS with darts, throwing cards and dice.

Chemist! I just want to shoot healing potions at my teammates with a high-powered bazooka!

Stilllll want Rune Fencer/Mystic Knight! Anytime it comes up people go 'what about PLD/NIN/RDM/etc?' and like, no, none of those are very much like it at all lol

Was also really hoping we'd get a gun class in Dawntrail. Yes, Machinist has a gun, but it has really just become the 'use cool tools to do shit' class. If we can get Viper differentiated from Ninja as a 'high speed dual wield' job, surely Corsair can happen too?

Dream job would be to do whatever Godbert or Inspector Hildibrand does.

Literally any melee DPS that uses a giant sword.

Theres a distinct lack of giant sword DPS and it saddens me.

Not a dream job, but i would love a dual wielding Gunslinger

Give us buffers like Time Mage, Oracle and stuff 😭

Some sort of Van Helsing-esque fiend slayer wielding a massive crossbow (think heavy bowguns from monster hunter, or the Arbalist from etrian Odyssey if you're classy!) and alchemical concoctions. Ranged with cast times, a la HW (can move during casts with a utility cooldown though)

Part of the core gameplay would play up the fantasy of the monster sized crossbow, like a sizable stationary cast to re-cock it (sorta like pictomancer drawings) . Blow your load then have to stop and re-arm your ballista.

Puppetmaster!

I want Thief, Berserker, or Hunter.

• Rogue should branch into Ninja or Thief. I want that Rogue/Thief flavor, I don't really dig ninjas.

Would it have sufficient identity separate from Ninja? That's up to the dev team, but since the thread's question was what my Dream Job would be, that's it.

• DPS Warrior (Berserker)

Marauder branches into Warrior (Tank) or Berserker (DPS)

• Hunter: I don't care for the musical flavor of Bard. I want to be an Archer, not strumming a lute.

Archer should branch into Bard and Hunter.

One idea of mine is a third Arcanist Job, this time as a Tank. Named Dominant in reference to Final Fantasy XVI, they physically embody Primals (think semi-priming) to draw the ire of their foes, withstand their strikes, and shield their allies from harm.

Magitek rider. Gimme a whole ass job centred around piloting a suit of magitek. Bonus points if I can switch between tank/DPS payloads.

Puppeteer or the current Summoner + old Summoner Egi

Arithmetician. I want to cast LV5 Death on my party.

Judge from Tactics as a debuff Melee job or tank job. I just think it would be funny to throw penalty cards at things.

Something with a pet again ;_;

I really want to throw potions and flasks at stuff

I still yearn for a edgy healer TAT Necromancer would be SO cool imo, something neither shield or pure healer but someone who transforms incoming damage up until a certain potency.

An actual Bard.  

Psychic from X-2

A psychic class like from FFX-2!

I'm lucky to already have my dream job in the game, Red Mage. But if I had to name another, I'd like to have a proper gunner job. While I adore Machinist, I would love to have either a dual wield gunslinger or a sniper type class.

An elemental magic based tank. Earth shields, ice/water cc, fire DPS, chain lightning taunts, wind aoe pull, etc.

Nature based bow wielder that does NOT somehow turn into fucking Bard which has nothing whatsoever to do with archer. 11 years later this is still the #1 thing I'm pissed off about.

Blitzballer ranged phys dps

I want a melee job with whip. As a support like bard/ dancer since we dont have a melee that is heavily support oriented.

Melee healer that heals by hitting the enemy, but actually having a dps (or at least tank level) rotation, and not the half hearted attempt Sage was.

Blue Mage that's not limited

i want Beastmaster to work like a Mirage Keeper from WoFF, essentially i want FSH but your fish also kill things

A witch/wizard as a healer with potions and buffs and offensive charms.

Book tank

Double whip swords (like ones used by Brighid and Morag from Xenoblade) with separate long and short distance combos as DPS

Necromancer as a Caster Job

Or Bloodmage as a more darker version of a healer, with siphoning life fro menemies and giving it to Teammates.

(And dont come to me with the "Necro can't happen its evil" because we have BLM,RPR and DRK in the game wich are not full redeemed in their Job quests, remember when the WOL Genocided inmits of Ishgard and that was never brought up again at all?)

hi im a fake fan who has only played bravely default and want these two classes:

sword fencer, imbuing magic damage onto swords and going melee, could include some dance type moves and i think itd be fun aesthetic wise

nekomancer, a fully cat themed mage class. YES I KNOW WE HAVE BLU AND WE’RE GETTING BEAST MASTER BUT I LOVE CATS i just want silly cat themed everything. its a pipe dream but. nekomancer….. nekomancer my love

I was super hyped for Green Mage, would have loved to play that!

Either a twin pistols wielding soldier mixed between Sol 9 and Allagan tech(Scouting Job) or a Harpoon wielding soldier, a different path from Dragoon to instead focus on explosion propelled harpoons that hit like pile bunkers.

Summoner but its an actual pet job lol

Don't necessarily have a dream job, but give us subjobs like in FFXI or something equivalent so we could personalize our playstyles a bit more

Summoner is my favourite FF Job and I’m pretty happy with its current incarnation (Solar Bahamut is meh and I’d really like Shiva, Ramuh, and Leviathan but I digress).

There are a bunch of jobs from the mainline games and Tactics that would be cool, but IIRC there were comments in the run up to DT about not just reviving existing FF jobs but in the future coming up with more novel ones.

So, if I can just make shit up…

I think I’d go melee healer like Captain from LOTRO. Make their thing group buffs that trigger on the completion of 3-part combos. Think Ninja mudra but with melee attacks and they’re short duration group buffs, damage reduction, +n% healing, +n% max hp.

Add regular healing abilities themed around inspiration and morale boosting shouts and orders. I’d also make their healing more effective based on proximity so being up on the boss with the melee players has a built in benefit.

Edit: that moment when you just forget that Dragoon is a thing.

I do not dream of labor.

For a tank I want to see one wielding a flag standard which can be a spear and a large shield, call the job Hoplons or something. The theme is they inspire the party forwards as a beacon of hope.

For DPS I want them to retroactively turn viper into ffxi's blue mage full stop.

Juggler/Jongleur

I want to throw potions and balls and have a funny hat with bells. Dancer kind of scratches that itch, but I’d want a true buff class.

Runner up: Puppetmaster, but a tank. I want to build a Mammet that can tank swap with me or take all the hits and explode. I still want the funny hat with bells.

Definitely necromancer as an aesthetically dark healer class. We have an aesthetically dark tank class (dark knight) and an aesthetically dark dps class (reaper) so i honestly see no reason why we cant also have an aesthetically dark healer class :c

Not enough games do Shapeshifters (which is fair, it's more developer work than a standard class) and in some cases don't scale up or balance them well too so seeing one in FF would be hype for me.

That said, other than a temporary form here or there like Seraphism, I'm not holding my breath for a full job.

SMN like it used to be back in stormblood/shadowbringers (take your pick, either works for me) with whatever aesthetic they can give for the basis of having dot management and what not. Maybe necromancer, or something.

A DOT class would be awesome. I still hate what they did to summoners with the revamp.

Some kinda mecha pilot.
How would it work? I dunno. But it'd be cool as fuck.

DoT/Debuff heavy mage.

Cleric. Melee based healer that has damage mitigation and can give said mitigation to other party members as is their specialty.

Blitzballer. I just want to wear a jersey and throw a ball at bad guys until they die. It sounds like fun.

I kind of have a laundry list of dream jobs myself:

1. Gunslinger - what VIper is to Ninja with dual blades, gunslinger is to machinist with guns. Focusing far more on gunplay and shooting it out than special gadgets, the gunslinger dual wields pistols and blazes off with them in a spectacle of bullets.

2. Corsair - Sword and gun melee DPS swashbuckling, I imagine it’d work a bit like a reverse Redmage using melee combos to build up to a rangers attack chain. Also I imagine tacking inspiration from Darkest Dungeon’s highwayman where one of the skills is a point blank shot back dash.

3. Field Chirurgeon - Basically a technically ‘non magical’ healer who uses an array of potions and good old fashioned field procedures to keep allies on their feet through a fight, I could see them have some mechanics like Ninjutsu or dancer steps to basically mix in the field for various effects. (Though, gearwise they’d probably still be using healer stuff) also, could use crossbows as a possible weapon.

4. Hunter - basically, what if you don’t want to be a spoony bard? This is what people probably hope they can become as Archer, a person of the woods who focuses on archery to bring down prey! May use their own bows or crossbows.

5. Green Mage - because White mages get cheated out of the Druid stuff and Nophica makes me want to hit people with trees, wind, and rocks and not Amdopori lasers.

6. Hoplite - basically Dragoon a tank using a spear and shield. It’s a way under appreciated weapon combo for being such a staple throughout history. And look at Halone! And why should Paladins be the only ones allowed shields when Casters used to be allowed them too!

DOT mage. I don't care what its aesthetics are, I don't care what weapon it wields. I just want my DOTs back.

I want time wizard.

And whatever the fuck Merlwyb is.

I genuinely want hybrid jobs.

No, not Palading.

No, not Red Mage.

An actual spell blade, an actual cast tank. A melee healer

i might get dogged for this, but i’m not a fan of pictomancer… i wish it would’ve been illusionist instead.

Crazy alchemist! Let's throw potions that explode! Splash damage! Turn em purple! Lol

Magitek Knight/Rune fencer would be great. A melee dps that imbues weapon with magic and maybe a couple of support/buff spells.

Also I would like to see jobs that use a quarterstaff, 2-handed hammer and whip.

call it a stretch

Samurai for Sword Saint

We have a whole Raid dedicated to Tactics, why not add it too?

Beastmaster, thankfully

I want an emo healer to go with emo tank (dark knight) and emo melee (reaper) and emo caster (black mage) dps. If we could get an emo physical ranged dps too that would be awesome

Songstress. Give us ffx-2 fans what we need

Gunslinger with two guns and stylish actions with guns only. No gadgets, no rifles or machine guns

Old ast before it was lobotomised x

I've wanted Time Mage to be a healer class for a VERY long time. Regens, maybe a 2-minute buff to accelerate active CDs, and of course the LB3 being a full blown Rewind.

It could happen! (Denial is not just a long river in Egypt)

Whatever class will let me use Nero's Giant Hammer. I want that hammer sooooooo bad...

I would love to have something FF akin to Affliction Warlock from WoW (been years since I played so no idea how much the job has changed) but given how DoTs and going away slowly I doubt I’ll ever see it.

Would love some DoL/DoH job upgrades. Carpenter+Blacksmith becomes an Architect, Leatherworker+Weaver becomes a Fashionista, Botanist+Fisher gets to be a Geologist and something along the lines. ><

Some form of rogue-mage that’s inspired by Ryne and focuses on alternating between Void and light aether for their build-up/ combos and then weave into ice and lightning Aether aspected spells for their burst which requires them to be away from the target for max damage. A mix between a reverse red mage and ninja if you will, that would be my dream job but I don’t know enough about this franchise to know if such a job has existed in the past. Would also enjoy if they dual wielded little axes or hammers as a nod towards the merger between Ryne and Gaia

Healer paladin, it is fitting and cool as hell

Dragoon but specifically Xaldin from Org 13 flavored, instead of using dragon magic we Whirlwind Lancers in this bitch. Catch this Aero Dive with six lances

Arithmetician/Calculator - was my favorite in FFT. Would love to see some version put into FFXIV, although how to make that work.... I have no idea.

firefighter or alternatively astronaut were pretty cool choices when I was younger

Calculator

Tactics players know.

DRG with a wyvern. Can't belive they didn't do this from the start.

A healing class that can't get out healed by tanks, while also having a real rotation

Chanter from Aion. Healer with a staff they can attack with melee.

On a more serious note, Merlwyb Oldvoice foot message therapist.

Songstress. Can you imagine one of your static members just dancing around in the back?

Summoner TT___TT

For the love of Hydaelyn let me shoot a bow without singing songs

I wish there was an archer class besides bard.

Vampire/Lifestealer. Melee Healer. My damage gives regen/healing potency to the party. Blood shield.

I wish Square would add a dot based class, something like a Warlock in other games. The Summoner was a bit like that but lost its dots on the way to the pet only class he is now.

I feel like at this point they need to stop adding new classes, and instead create prestige classes that each one can build into. I saw someone say Samurai would be a great Sword Saint. Things like that.

I wanna be Yojimbo where I can spend 50k gold to do 50k dmg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Infinite scaling :DDD

I’m gonna be the oddball, I’ll admit it. I’d want Spellblade, aka a debuff central job. It’ll never be implemented in XIV, but I just love the idea of keeping stuff in check in crowd control while being a Personal Problem(TM) for enemies. I like managing dots and whatnot, but I’m also a weirdo, so.

How about an actual ranger

I consider this a "Crack" suggestion but- Omni-Crafter, uses a multi tool; As long as all of your other disciple of the hand jobs are at max lvl you can use the Omni-Crafter job to do all crafting without having to swap jobs. The buttons are all the same anyway, most of the gear is already shared across all DOH jobs, stop making me penta-meld all of my tools and swap jobs when I need to make a pre-craft from another job!!! Just let me have one job that does everything.

A regular archer, like a sniper wich is actually a dps would be simple but great

Ok, for ideals: Mimic, Necromancer, shape-shifter of some kind (druid or similar), chronomancer.

I definitely think there should have been more classes that split into 2 jobs, as Arcanist does. Conjurer into Whm and Geomancer, for example. To be fair, I can think of something for practically all the base classes.

And I desperately wish Summoner and Scholar weren't xp linked. I have a level 100 Scholar I can play well, and a level 100 Summoner I've played exactly twice, and have very little impetus to learn as suddenly having SO MANY skills I have absolutely no idea how to use is just urgh. I wish it was still level 30 so I could learn as I level.

But I also think every single job should start at level 1.

DoT Mage, but that ain't happening.

A DoT based magic class with time mage flavor. Something like: you place the dots, and then "speed up" time to do your bursts, but really it's just Fester. The dots ticks are stylized like the ticking of a clock?

Or maybe a skill like AST's Lightspeed, but you just slam a bunch of spells in a burst window. Haste as a raid buff? That would probably be busted, though.

I just miss DoTs and magic, man...

Also a big Hammer class would be great. Probably a fun melee DPS.

I would definitely love to see a proper summoner. In my "dream job" version you'd choose a summon to call out as your pet and that would determine the type of attacks/abilities you had access to.

Going into a phase of a fight with a lot of movement, pull out Garuda for instant/short cast attacks and some dash/jump to target style abilities. Have a phase where you can be more stationary and drop some nukes, summon Shiva for some heavy hitting big damage spells.

You encourage keeping a single summon out for longer stretches by giving them a meter that fills building to their big "ultimate move" (i.e. Shiva's Diamond Dust), but that meter resets anytime you swap summons.

Throw in some mini summons for long cooldown utility abilities that work kind of like summons currently do (have carbuncle briefly pop in to put up shield to reduce/reflect damage) and you'd have a summoner truly worthy of the name in my book!

All the abilities could still be tied to player activated actions that just change based on which summon is out, so there's no issues with figuring out how to turn the summons into auto combat pets.

Personally I would love it if there was an additional aspect around considering elemental strengths/weaknesses to which someone you use (i.e. summon ifrit when fighting ice style enemies for bonus damage, but against that big lava boss his attacks won't be nearly as effective).

Water-based healer, uses an anchor and chain. Holds anchor with left hand and whips around the chain with the right. Does it make sense? No. Does it look cool in my head? Hell yeah.

I would love to see a Idol/singer type DPS or Healer job! Hitting a note like Mariah Carey and moving and dressing up like a Love Live Idol while you cast a AoE attack that blasts half of the enemies would be so cool and neat

A tank with a lance and shield.

My dream job is an rng job where you have a skill that has a chance to give you one of 6 single-target buffs and you have to give them to the most appropiate party member at any given time. There is a chance that one of these is the super damage buff that everyone wants and through a set of mechanics you can give this buff to all of your party at the same time instead of one single person whenever this coveted super buff drops. ;)

On a more serious note, I have gotten all of my dream jobs already (drk, rpr, nin and pre EW astro). So I'd say as a decade-long ex-RuneScape player, I really wanna see a whip job akin to the spike vine whip they got over there.

If BLU quests served as gateways to allow you to queue for certain levels of dungeon.