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

[Teknoman]

I cant see a Thaumaturge becoming a white mage since it doesnt use any traditional white mage spells in the first place. I'd rather see it become a new mage type job, or pull one of the mage jobs from the ivalice side of things that might fit better.

Honestly, its just kinda silly to think that there wont be branching job paths eventually though.

[zaviermhigo]

Thm= Necromancer from FF5. Cure will damage them, could give them their own dark heals. Doesn't have to have a minion, it just can charm dead mobs to fight later on or something.

[Zarvlad]

I cant see a Thaumaturge becoming a white mage since it doesnt use any traditional white mage spells in the first place. I'd rather see it become a new mage type job, or pull one of the mage jobs from the ivalice side of things that might fit better.

Honestly, its just kinda silly to think that there wont be branching job paths eventually though.

Slow, Silence, Bind, Ressurect(Raise) are all White Magic and White Mage ish spells. It became the Red Mage speciality only in XI because of the enfeebling specialisation they got.

[Cairdeas]

Thm= Necromancer from FF5. Cure will damage them, could give them their own dark heals. Doesn't have to have a minion, it just can charm dead mobs to fight later on or something.

FF5 only had Necromancer on one version and that was a remake of a remake only released in the US and wasnt developed by SE.

[Malakhim]

FF5 only had Necromancer on one version and that was a remake of a remake only released in the US and wasnt developed by SE.

BUT if you recall, SE originally wanted Puppetmaster to be Necromancer in FFXI, however with the whole "skeletons don't come out in the day" thing and maybe something else, they decided against it and voila, Puppetmaster.

SE has at least wanted to incorporate a Necromancer class into the series.

Assuming they will allow us to use multiple jobs on one class, I don't see any lore reason why Thaumaturge can't access WHM and a NCM class.

[Corrderio]

I cant see a Thaumaturge becoming a white mage since it doesnt use any traditional white mage spells in the first place. I'd rather see it become a new mage type job, or pull one of the mage jobs from the ivalice side of things that might fit better.

Honestly, its just kinda silly to think that there wont be branching job paths eventually though.

Don't forget they're going to balance classes.

Either way, I hope that rep post is inaccurate, took a hit to my faith in this game.

[Teknoman]

Slow, Silence, Bind, Ressurect(Raise) are all White Magic and White Mage ish spells. It became the Red Mage speciality only in XI because of the enfeebling specialisation they got.

Hmm you're right there...

Don't forget they're going to balance classes.

Either way, I hope that rep post is inaccurate, took a hit to my faith in this game.

I guess some classes might lose/gain skills in that case. How did it knock your faith down a notch though? Its highly unlikely that the team will just leave all classes/future classes implemented with just one job to branch off to.

EDIT: As for Summoner, whenever thats implemented, i'm sure they'll implement Evoker first.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Noomy Noms!

[Lerris]

Spoke to the dev. team to try and wrangle some more details regarding the upcoming job system. The current thinking is to have one job for one class. So for example, if you are a gladiator, the job you could unlock would be paladin, etc. Right now, we can't give any further details about the possibility of having multiple jobs per class.

To try and stave off the coming flood of "So if gladiator becomes paladin, then what will xyz class unlock?" You'll have to stay tuned for more details in the future!

"Current thinking" suggests, to me, that there is a possibility of increasing the number of jobs per class in the future.
And one job<->one class also reduces the number of combinations to balance should jobs not be locked to class.

[Chinook]

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