Players need job/class combo info ASAP to have time to prepare.

I'm so sad, where is Thief? ;

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Originally Posted by leomax

I'm so sad, where is Thief? ;

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Thief is going to be...complicated. It was drawn and quartered. Head went to pugilist. Body went to lancer. Arms to gladiator. Feet to archer.

Gonna be like reconstructing Voltron to get thief into this game.

I still wonder where my steal ran off to.

I know it sounds silly, but a player could pick the classes that make them more content now than plan for a job and hope that job will represent the abilities or role(s) as dictated by previous FF games.

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Originally Posted by AlexiaKidd

I have been asking for this for a while, I think most of the classes are easy to spot but CON and THM are the two that are a bit iffy.

CON on the face of it with Elemental and Ancient Magic would be the better suited BLM, that would leave THM to be WHM but WHM doesn't fit THM at all really. THM does have the better AOE for curing and buffing but lacks pretty much everything else a traditional WHM would have. Their lore is darker and better suited to BLM yet they also lack the Elemental and Ancient Magics that a BLM would have.

Yoshi stated that classes would be rebuilt from the ground up where needed and these two are going to need more work than others to get them to the two Job roles most people are expecting. Ww have already seen the BLM AF as it were so that will be coming without a doubt and if there is a BLM they will also have to have a main heal Job and that will most likely come as a WHM as you can't have one without the other :p

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All we know is that it seems like big changes are coming probably bigger than we expected and I am looking forward to finding out what they are, hopefully sooner rather than later ^^

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This right here. ^

As I've said in other posts, I took up Conjurer because I wanted to be a healer. I want to be a White Mage. But right now, CON/THM are the two biggest hybrid classes in this game. I have no idea how they're going to handle this, so, this is one reason I've stopped leveling my DoM classes.

I'd like to know so I can start playing again.

CON-Sage
THM-Oracle
No BLM and WHM at all.
Good a guess as any.
Can we just wait and see now?

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Originally Posted by Fiosha_Maureiba

I know it sounds silly, but a player could pick the classes that make them more content now than plan for a job and hope that job will represent the abilities or role(s) as dictated by previous FF games.

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The problem with that is we're final fantasy fans. We don't give a **** about woodwailers and thaumaturgy. Yeah yeah yeah thal. Nald. Whatever what is it REALLY going to be. You can't beat 20+ years of job lore with some generic no-name classes, and what jobs those classes are going to turn into is what people care about.

The classes had their chance to merit their own levelling and for people to grow to be fans of them. They largely bombed.

I would love information on this as well, but, I wouldn't be surprised if we do not know before it's in game and we need to figure it all out ourselves with no information on what makes what, who gets what job and what weapons, etc...such a headache. ^^; I really hope more information is provided beforehand and that it's implemented in a fashion that makes players happy/unique-feeling and not completely confined/miserable. ; - ;

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Originally Posted by Eldaena

I would love information on this as well, but, I wouldn't be surprised if we do not know before it's in game and we need to figure it all out ourselves with no information on what makes what, who gets what job and what weapons, etc...such a headache. ^^; I really hope more information is provided beforehand and that it's implemented in a fashion that makes players happy/unique-feeling and not completely confined/miserable. ; - ;

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That's about the only reason I can think to sit on the info...to "surprise" players and let them "discover it for themselves."

But by god if you let players discover that their class isn't the job they want by themselves and surprise them with an "Iran Man" volume one edition 1 comic book...they're going to be so pissed, nothing SE's seen since september will come close.

Personally I think they will hold off on the info until a few days before they implement it if the changes to classes are huge. If the announced today that THM was getting rebuilt and most of it's offensive/debuff skills were being removed and replaced with curing and buffing spells people would be going apeshit for a however long it took them to implement it. If they wait until just before they put it in then yeah people will still go crazy but at least it will be done and dusted and not drawn out over a month or so waiting for the update.