FFXIV Fan Festival is coming soon. During this Fan Festival, we can see a new trailer for FFXIV 7.0. We can also learn about the new expansion pack name and some new classes that will be released soon.
So here I want to share my predictions for Jobs in FFXIV 7.0 and what might happen in the next class. Of course, this is just my opinion, but I think it’s interesting, anyway.
Melee DPS
On July 19, 2016, FFXIV released patch 3.35, releasing its first deep dungeon: Palace of the Dead. Its story revolves around Nybeth Obdilord, who is said to be from another game, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.
Nybeth is a man who serves this Kingdom of Galgastan. He ended up going to an ancient dungeon on the island of Exeter, Palace of the Dead. We know this as the prime location for studying Necromancy.
You can fight him as you walk through this Palace of the Dead, and he’ll resurrect corpses to attack you. If you can somehow manage to beat Palace of the Dead floors 1 to 200 in a single player without dying once. Then, you can get “Necromancer” title. So I always thought I’d see it in class form one day.
Although Summoner class is endowed with a chaotic state of summoning, and it is constantly changing. Obviously, if Necromancer was a class, I think we’d use staffs, like Nybeth Obdilord does.
His gameplay can be DPS like, or close to Reaper, and doesn’t really summon your Voidsent Avatar. Or, maybe it will be a bit like Summoner Job’s current state. Or even kind of like Blue Mage, where you can use some monster spells.
Magical Ranged DPS
Next, in Stormblood, when you walk through Swallow’s Compass. You can see some monsters that use bells, which are a little different from normal monsters. Killing them can drop more FFXIV Gil. After Ganen’s death, Swallow’s Compass became the holy place of pilgrimage.
I know this is just a legend, but Ganen is very important here. Because he is not only the founder of Doma but also the founder of Geomancy. That’s why you’ll see a lot of Geomancer monsters in dungeons, and even Ganen statues. When I saw this, I thought it might be a new career. But it’s also Stormblood’s Astrologian questline.
During the aforementioned questline, you get to interact a lot with the real Geomancer Kyokuho Moribe. But before I heard about him, my impression of the class was that they used bells, like giant monsters.
As far as gameplay goes, I’m a bit confused. Because Geomancer can manipulate two elements: Earth and Water. There is currently no mention of a third. However, Swallow’s Compass actually has 3 stones, each representing an element. So, I’m guessing that the last element might be Wind, but it’s not mentioned anywhere.
Funny, when I think about it, the devs removed the spell, Stoneskin. Equivalent to Succor in Scholar, AOE Shield. They also removed Fluid Aura, a water spell that can knockback.
So I’m confused because I don’t see anything that mentions Geomancer using healing. But it sounds like it could be a healer with old White Mage spells. But it gave me a support Mage vibe, kind of like Bard or Red Mage. I think if it was a healer or a DPS, I would still be happy.
Guess For Other Jobs
Now, the last part may not be as detailed as the first two parts. If you go to patch 5.3 challenge dungeon Heroes’ Gauntlet, you may find that other shards spawn a lot of enemies to attack you.
This dungeon is full of various categories. Although you can see some normal ones like White Mage, Black Mage, Paladin, Monk, Dragoon, Bard, Samurai. You’ll also see some classes that we don’t have yet, like Thief, Ink Mage, Necromancer and Berserker.
Thief is probably close to Rogue on this list, and Ink Mage is apparently like Arcanist according to people. Necromancer we already know, and Berserker is close to Warrior. So maybe Berserker and Rogue won’t be a class, but we could still be open to Necromancer, giving Blue, White and Black Mages access to staffs.
That’s it, the above are my guesses about the categories we might see in FFXIV patch 7.0. But only predictions, as some of these categories have been in legends for a long time and cannot be accessed. Finally, I’d love to hear what you’d like to see in the new patch!
