New Class/Job in 2.2?

[Nahara]

The problem with this, however, is that a class really needs to be built around the central idea of being able to branch into two separate roles at level 30.

Truly, I wouldn't be surprised if SE did some restructuring of each class as new jobs were added on to them. Paladin is one example of the class being way too focused on it's given role, but Conjurer is another good one; it's focused way too heavily on healing that any DPS option for it (eg. Geomancer) would have almost nothing to benefit from it's traits and most of its abilities.

[Kitru]

Truly, I wouldn't be surprised if SE did some restructuring of each class as new jobs were added on to them.

The problem with restructuring the existing classes is that you'd have to shift the functionality around without impacting current performance. PLD is currently balanced with WAR and WHM is balanced with SCH; if GLA got "restructured" to make it more dps job friendly, it would basically require removing tank CDs from GLA and replacing them with DPS CDs and new attacks, which is going to diminish PLD tank capability (there are only 5 job abilities, 4 of which are absolutely set in stone and the 5th of which is actually a DPS ability); if CNJ got restructured, WHM would take a hit to its healing capability as well, especially since the biggest obstacle to a CNJ DPS job is the healing proc traits and sheer number of healing abilities that WHM gets (Presence of Mind is pretty much a joke, so it could go and be replaced by one of the CNJ heals, but that still leaves CNJ with about half of its abilities basically "wasted" on healing).

Honestly, I think it's just much more likely that certain classes just aren't going to get new jobs. It's not as if every class *needs* to have multiple jobs stemming off of it and, honestly, you can design better jobs by building them from scratch with a relevant class instead of trying to turn an existing class into something that it wasn't originally intended to do. I honestly think that single job classes will be the norm and that multiple job classes, like ACN, are going to be the exception and only because they were expressly built around being capable of it.

[jomoru]

Gladiator could be made more "Dps friendly" if it moved a couple of the Gladiator abilities to Paladin(Bulwerk, sentinel) and moved a couple Paladin abilities to Gladiator(Spirits within, Sword Oath). White mage would be a bit trickier since alot of the heals are baked into CNJ