Call me delusional, but I think I—well, a collection of sharp eyes from the Final Fantasy 14 community—have cracked what Final Fantasy 14: Evercold’s next job is going to be. We were introduced to the Bastion during the latest fanfest, but we’ve still got one more job to go—a job we happen to know is a ranged physical dps.
Pardon me while I gather my corkboard and red string—I’ll be starting off with the strongest evidence to the weaker stuff, but I think you can make a compelling case that the job will be some sort of bird tamer with a crossbow. Firstly, because of lead composer and sound director Masayoshi Soken’s tease at the fanfest, clipped here by Reddit user ParvatiLikeaRockstar.
In the first clip, we hear a magical charge-up, a click—like a crossbow string latching or being fired—and then an explosion. In the second, we very clearly hear a bird assailing an enemy, and more sounds akin to something being fired.
In the recently-extended trailer itself, we see a miqo’te named Visna being harassed by her pet bird while checking a wand-like object for flaws. She flinches, touches the tip of the wand, and it explodes into a rune—a rune that looks suspiciously like a job stone symbol and, if you squint at it right, bears a resemblance to a crossbow.