Aldis and a new job [GLA spoilers inside!]

[Enkidoh]

He did seem a lot like a SAM, but given the Job quests have little connection to the class quests now, I doubt that it's foreshadowing a new Job for GLA.

Ironically, this wasn't the case in 1.0, where the class quests directly led into the Job ones. Evidence of this is shown with the first PLD Job quest, where Lulustu the Guild receptionist greets your character by name when informing the player about the rumour of the Sultansworn teaching the skills of PLD to adventurers, as if she'd known you for ages.

In ARR she had no real connection or contact to your character at all, apart from the initial join up phase, where as in 1.0 she was directly connected to the class quests, acting as a kind of mentor to your character and giving them the quest rewards. I'm not sure how other class and Job quests were in 1.0, as I never did them (only GLA/PLD), but given how GLA and PLD were handled in ARR, it wouldn't surprise me if they were the same. In any event, Lulutsu's friendly personal comments at the start of the PLD quests now seem somewhat out of place given the aforementioned lack of contact she now has with the player.

And having said that, the PLD quests in ARR are pretty much the same as they were in 1.0, save for some slight variation in dialogue here and there (and occasional differences in quest objectives), or at least, the first quest was.