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

[Cairdeas]

"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.

Actually Any Job <> Any Class reduces the amount of balancing they have to do because they made no promise that all combinations would be beneficial. When they select specific combinations only they have to keep them balanced because they are saying "These combinations are balanced and we authorize them."

[Corrderio]

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.

For something that's been in the works for this long 1 job per class just seems like a major letdown.

This game needs something BIG to keep it alive, and this doesn't seem to be close to it.

[Teknoman]

"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.

Yeah, I doubt its locked in concrete that you'll be stuck playing the same job from the same class forever. And having a small number of jobs to implement at this point along with all the current class and equipment overhauling, should make it alot easier to balance early on, get players ready for all the content, and worry about expanding the job system later after XIV's base is stable.

For something that's been in the works for this long 1 job per class just seems like a major letdown.

This game needs something BIG to keep it alive, and this doesn't seem to be close to it.

Dont forget they are also supposed to be overhauling the current equipment, class actions/performance, the way stats work, and enemy difficulty among other things...so its probably going to be like the true XIV starts at 1.18....hopefully.

EDIT: Technically they have 14 things to adjust/rebalance. the 7 current classes and 7 initial jobs, so in reality if everything comes to pass as they've said, even the classes should play a little different than we're used to.

[Teknoman]

And even with everything thats going on, the job system doesnt have or need to be similar to any other past FF title. Every FF title with a job system has worked fairly different than the last, so I expect the same here.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Some classes don't make sense to point to on particular job though. Conjurer acts as a white mage and a black mage, so what are they going to do about that?

[Cairdeas]

And even with everything thats going on, the job system doesnt have or need to be similar to any other past FF title. Every FF title with a job system has worked fairly different than the last, so I expect the same here.

Really it hasn't.

Learn Job
Level job in some way to unlock new skills.
Learn new job
Change job
Mix skills traits, or equipmentskill modifiers from old job to new job.
New Job is better now.

[Teknoman]

Really it hasn't.

Learn Job
Level job in some way to unlock new skills.
Learn new job
Change job
Mix skills traits, or equipmentskill modifiers from old job to new job.
New Job is better now.

I dont think you could combine jobs in III,V,X-2, and to a certain extent 4 heroes of light (which works closer to how the XIV armory system works...except with books).

Not sure how the XII international version job system worked since I havent played that.

[Lerris]

Actually Any Job <> Any Class reduces the amount of balancing they have to do because they made no promise that all combinations would be beneficial. When they select specific combinations only they have to keep them balanced because they are saying "These combinations are balanced and we authorize them."

Balance isn't about preventing some combinations from being weaker than the others. It's about preventing unexpected synergies from creating uber-combinations that dominate the game. If they feed us a small number of combinations at a time, we're going to have smaller adjustments in the future rather than an "OMG they nerfed everything all at once!"

[Pooky]

Well I hope it doesn't mean that there are only going to be 7 jobs. Really am hoping there will be Dark Knight, Samurai, Summoner, Bard etc.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

Well I hope it doesn't mean that there are only going to be 7 jobs. Really am hoping there will be Dark Knight, Samurai, Summoner, Bard etc.

dreams....