23 thoughts on “Designing a job for FFXIV! (Fan Theorycraft) – Corsair ep. 3 feat. @JoCat”
Thanks for watching! Like the other videos in this series, this has no affiliation with Square Enix or the FFXIV team. It’s a creative exercise in how I could go about designing new jobs by brainstorming ideas and refining them through community feedback. This chapter is now closed but I’ll be opening the new one soon with “Magitek Knight”!
IDK about the potency being the same for melee and range stances, since the way range dps is balanced is not losing uptime and no casting bar. Imagine a range DPS having the same damage outfit as DRG but without the need for positionals.
I love the Booty mechanic. 😂 Would the First Mate be an AI-controlled pet or something like Dance Partner? Also, you mentioned "minor explosives" as a part of their ability kit, imo that should be Powder kegs as a form of aoe for Corsair. It would be so fun to throw kegs of black powder and shoot them out of the air for aoe. Great propsal, though!! Love to see JoCat too. ❤
Tremendous work Drak! Though I’m firmly in the “don’t give us new jobs, fix the current ones in 8.0” camp, I’d adore something like this in 14. In fact I’m shocked they didn’t add Corsair in DT and am still sorta bitter at viper about it
So , i'm gonna go against the current here, i'm not a big fan of this design.
-First i'm not fan of the combo sword+gun , the idea is to generate bullet with the melee combo that you can spend for range attack that seems to be main burst option of the job , it looks like a reverse redmage without the con of the burst ( redmage need to be close but with the corsair you can just fuck off since you can perform a range attack, and it's designed like a melee so your main burst should be at contact and not range, it will be fine if it was an option in case you must loose the uptime for a limited time but not as the burst ressource ).
-Next the booty mechanic, the fact that the generation can be double with crit can really change how the fight will go, if you get lucky you will be spending like crazy but if you are not you will have a pretty big gap with other player who are more lucky but not just in dps but in number of ability used etc… RNG on ressource generation can be really frustrating ( hello old AST we are looking at you and your random card).
-And the first mate, it's very confuse , it's another party member ? a pet akin to the queen or fairy ? i think it need to be more defined because like that i dont know what to think of it.
-it feel like a mix of other job , a little bit of redmage of the melee/range part , a little bit of monk for the ressource generation, and depending of the "first mate" it can be a little bit of dancer , i dont see any real "identity" ( but maybe it's because i'm not a fan of the pirate concept so dont take that too seriously).
Sorry if i'm not clear, english is not my native language.
But keep going , i think you can pull something great out of it !
Crits resulting in more booty leads to even more wild dps variation and isn't a good idea from a balance standpoint. Also if you're going to have booty be a mechanic, you should be spending that booty on your first mate or team to "motivate" them into dealing more dmg
As nice as another hybrid class would be, I would like to see some more unique weapon choices or fighting styles. My personal wants for next expac is a Judge for a tank, using hammers and Arcane Magicks from FF12, and then some kind of Trapper class for ranged with trip-wires and powder kegs.
It would be hilarious if the next expac is set in Hingashi and the two new classes are, warlord a new tank which can be on par with Drk damage and utility like Gnb. And corsair
I remember that, when we all thought that Viper was going to be Corsair, I imagined that a Corsair class could be the inverse Red Mage, a primarily melee class with ranged elements added to it. I must say, this concept you designed sounds really good.
I’m still hoping that we will see a Corsair class one day (for the sake of the remaining FFXI classes), but if they follow the same pattern of the previous expansions, I think that for the next one we will get a Tank and a Physical Ranged. If that’s the case, I hope that the next Tank uses the Garleans Gunshields
Drak, this is great and all, but you're missing the big picture.
Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn could be our job mentor. At this point of the game (since it'd be a new job at an even higher level unlock), she is probably one of the few pirates that is skilled enough to actually teach us anything useful.
I will immediately main this job to the seven hells and back if she is our job mentor.
It's interesting to me that the latest Rising makes the Corsair seem much more possible than it was a year ago. Merlwyb's "Piracy has no place in our future" seemed like the death knell for it, but maybe the team is having a second look at the concept…
Bro it sounds so overpowered. I love how unique it is. If SE would take this seriously forward they would essentially break their terrible design loop for jobs / template.
Thanks for watching! Like the other videos in this series, this has no affiliation with Square Enix or the FFXIV team. It’s a creative exercise in how I could go about designing new jobs by brainstorming ideas and refining them through community feedback.
This chapter is now closed but I’ll be opening the new one soon with “Magitek Knight”!
IDK about the potency being the same for melee and range stances, since the way range dps is balanced is not losing uptime and no casting bar. Imagine a range DPS having the same damage outfit as DRG but without the need for positionals.
I love the Booty mechanic. 😂 Would the First Mate be an AI-controlled pet or something like Dance Partner? Also, you mentioned "minor explosives" as a part of their ability kit, imo that should be Powder kegs as a form of aoe for Corsair. It would be so fun to throw kegs of black powder and shoot them out of the air for aoe. Great propsal, though!! Love to see JoCat too. ❤
I have an idea for a "Gambler" job. Though, it's pretty much just Gambit. Sleep deprived, apologies.
Tremendous work Drak! Though I’m firmly in the “don’t give us new jobs, fix the current ones in 8.0” camp, I’d adore something like this in 14. In fact I’m shocked they didn’t add Corsair in DT and am still sorta bitter at viper about it
What is a pirate without their booty?
you just wanted an excuse to make a video involving you and Jocat saying 'booty' a lot didn't you?
So , i'm gonna go against the current here, i'm not a big fan of this design.
-First i'm not fan of the combo sword+gun , the idea is to generate bullet with the melee combo that you can spend for range attack that seems to be main burst option of the job , it looks like a reverse redmage without the con of the burst ( redmage need to be close but with the corsair you can just fuck off since you can perform a range attack, and it's designed like a melee so your main burst should be at contact and not range, it will be fine if it was an option in case you must loose the uptime for a limited time but not as the burst ressource ).
-Next the booty mechanic, the fact that the generation can be double with crit can really change how the fight will go, if you get lucky you will be spending like crazy but if you are not you will have a pretty big gap with other player who are more lucky but not just in dps but in number of ability used etc… RNG on ressource generation can be really frustrating ( hello old AST we are looking at you and your random card).
-And the first mate, it's very confuse , it's another party member ? a pet akin to the queen or fairy ? i think it need to be more defined because like that i dont know what to think of it.
-it feel like a mix of other job , a little bit of redmage of the melee/range part , a little bit of monk for the ressource generation, and depending of the "first mate" it can be a little bit of dancer , i dont see any real "identity" ( but maybe it's because i'm not a fan of the pirate concept so dont take that too seriously).
Sorry if i'm not clear, english is not my native language.
But keep going , i think you can pull something great out of it !
Crits resulting in more booty leads to even more wild dps variation and isn't a good idea from a balance standpoint. Also if you're going to have booty be a mechanic, you should be spending that booty on your first mate or team to "motivate" them into dealing more dmg
Corsair is a job on ffxi would be cool if it came to ffxiv
Seruous video or just an excuse to repeatedly say booty?
Scouting armour or Aiming? The abilty to be both melee or ranged could be either.
I need to slightly counter this philosophy, I want the same thing except this is a tank with an anchor instead of a cutlass.
As nice as another hybrid class would be, I would like to see some more unique weapon choices or fighting styles. My personal wants for next expac is a Judge for a tank, using hammers and Arcane Magicks from FF12, and then some kind of Trapper class for ranged with trip-wires and powder kegs.
It would be hilarious if the next expac is set in Hingashi and the two new classes are, warlord a new tank which can be on par with Drk damage and utility like Gnb. And corsair
I remember that, when we all thought that Viper was going to be Corsair, I imagined that a Corsair class could be the inverse Red Mage, a primarily melee class with ranged elements added to it. I must say, this concept you designed sounds really good.
I’m still hoping that we will see a Corsair class one day (for the sake of the remaining FFXI classes), but if they follow the same pattern of the previous expansions, I think that for the next one we will get a Tank and a Physical Ranged. If that’s the case, I hope that the next Tank uses the Garleans Gunshields
It does remind me of MCH from Heavensward with the amunition mechanic
Drak, this is great and all, but you're missing the big picture.
Merlwyb Bloefhiswyn could be our job mentor. At this point of the game (since it'd be a new job at an even higher level unlock), she is probably one of the few pirates that is skilled enough to actually teach us anything useful.
I will immediately main this job to the seven hells and back if she is our job mentor.
It's interesting to me that the latest Rising makes the Corsair seem much more possible than it was a year ago. Merlwyb's "Piracy has no place in our future" seemed like the death knell for it, but maybe the team is having a second look at the concept…
Bro it sounds so overpowered. I love how unique it is. If SE would take this seriously forward they would essentially break their terrible design loop for jobs / template.
looking forward to this as the next limited job
I feel like Corsair will end up becoming our 4th phys ranged, with a focus on dual pistols.
Really cool idea for Corsair im into it! question if it should be a limited job or regular? Dood!
I want! Please game, add this.