4 new Fighter Jobs confirmed. FFXIV has at least 20 jobs?

[Malacite]

Re: 4 new Fighter Jobs confirmed. FFXIV has at least 20 jobs?

What shovels have you been looking at lately?

The tip is certainly shaped like one O.O

lol I'm sure it's a GAX though.

[Tickmeoff]

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Hmmm... If there is a bard type, wont it be in the desciples of magic, not melee? Bards don't have that good of a def, and offensive abilities. They might in FFXIV though. Just my 2 cents.

In pretty much every other MMO the Bard class is like a Rogue/Thief class with less focus on offense and more on songs/buffs. FFXI is the only game I've played that has reduced it to a helpless buff bot.

[Takelli]

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Shield-Block is an ability that comes with the Sword+Shield class.

Oh God... Please, please, PLEASE make more ways to tank, and more ways to tank other than provoke. I hope SE made more "tanks" this time around.

[Ziero]

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Shield-Block is an ability that comes with the Sword+Shield class.

From what I can tell, is that we'll get a few different "building" type attacks to increase XIV's version of TP and then we'll get a bunch of "special" type attacks which drain this "TP" but have more of an effect. Kinda like how it is in Champions Online, certain attacks build your meter while others drain it.

If that's how it works, it could be pretty interesting.

[Takelli]

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Ah. I can't read german lol.

So, you don't need a Sword, you just have to have a shield in order to provoke. This could get interesting.

[Kafeen]

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... And where did you get this info from?

It says so in the abilities listed on this screenshot.

the box says:

Knowing How to do it:

If a PT member is in danger, "provoking" helps. With Provoking and Shield-Block you can minimize the damage effectively



the drawing says (low to high):

1st: Swordslash: Powerfull Attack
2nd: Swordslash: Precise (meaning of Accuracy) Attack
3rd: Shield Block: damage Minimizing
4th (red one): Ranged Attack: Great Distance

---== Drawing==----

5th: Provoking: Distraction
6th (red): roundabout slash: AOE damage
7th (red) Red Lotus: huge damage

[Armando]

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Is that a Great Axe or a shovel he's holding? >_>

What shovels have you been looking at lately?

Doesn't really matter since it's not a weapon that would work in the real world =P

[Takelli]

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ctionally, it's easy to think "support" and immediately think "mage". Yeah, in XI, BRD is a mage, in the same way that DNC is a mage.

I don't consider Dnc as a mage even though its support. I consinder it melee as its abilities run off of TP. and job abilities. I think of Bard as a mage as their songs are "magic", but because its not true magic, its more of "singing", I think of them as pure support role, just like what Rdm was originally designed to be. It was supposed to be Support/melee.

Depending on how brds are designed, depends on how they can act. There are a few Brd (in D&D), that are good with melee, and can still do their job. And there are bards (In D&D again), that are crappy at melee, but they excel at their class skills.

Bards are more inbetween rather than a mage or melee, thats why I consider them as support, but they are more magic as they have barely any melee skill.

[Malacite]

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Is that a Great Axe or a shovel he's holding? >_>

And the BRD looks sweet.

[Pwnagraphic]

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He looks like a BRD or a Mage.

[Ketaru]

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Hmmm... If there is a bard type, wont it be in the desciples of magic, not melee? Bards don't have that good of a def, and offensive abilities. They might in FFXIV though. Just my 2 cents.

Edward, the BRD from IV, was most certainly not a melee type of character. Arguably the furthest thing from it actually (even more so than the game's resident BLM/SMN). Still, while a competent melee BRD is an extreme in XI (by extreme, I mean proud-owner-of-Hecatomb kind of extreme), it is actually doable. And it's not as if, even in XI, that they have innate MP. Their "magic" isn't even arcane as they don't consume MP or, correct me if I'm wrong, aggro elementals.

Functionally, it's easy to think "support" and immediately think "mage". Yeah, in XI, BRD is a mage, in the same way that DNC is a mage.

[Takelli]

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P.S. Sword users get provoke.

... And where did you get this info from?

[Ziero]

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All I see is an unarmed person, a bow wielder, a claw user and an axe user. Not one thing about jobs at all.

And if "Gladiator" is anything to go by, most of the abilities will be based around the weapon itself. So it's not jobs so much as they're weapon specialists.

P.S. Sword users get provoke.

[Gyotsha]

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Thief type? Maybe the weapon is just hidden

[Takelli]

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Anyways back to the first one: there's no proof it's a BRD-type. It might be a gambler or something Fighter-like

Hmmm... If there is a bard type, wont it be in the desciples of magic, not melee? Bards don't have that good of a def, and offensive abilities. They might in FFXIV though. Just my 2 cents.