Please do not lock Jobs to the Weapon Class that unlocks them.

[Cairdeas]

Still trying to establish your opinion as fact, and rally the troops behind you? Part of this mighty 'agenda'? I didn't say roles weren't playstyles. What I said was, by analysing what's actually been said in the text (talking about the class that corresponds to the job role being used to unlock it, corresponding meaning, being linked to), it would appear that classes are tied to specific roles.

Don't get me wrong, your idea sounds lovely (although fails to take stats into account really, and also fails to account for the fact that we're getting job-specific gear, meaning that a Black mage is going to be getting a black mage robe. But yeah he could totally be a lancer.) but it just doesn't seem like what they were trying to put across in the text.

You also pretty much seem to be working on the assumption that you're not speculating, that your idea has enough gravity to be right, and that pretty means you can gloss over the points I raised and ignore them?

I'm not saying how the game is going to work I'm saying how I WANT it to work. There is a difference and i think thats what people keep confusing.

We know jobs are playstyle/roles its in the writeup from Matsui. They are not Classes, Advanced Classes, or some other extention.

Though to be honest the only reason to specify explicitly "Jobs are not advanced classes" points to that they shouldn't be considered locked to a weapon. If they were locked to a weapon you could just consider them an advanced class.