Personally, I'd rather you scrap the Armoury System then Lock 1 Job to 1 Weapon.

[Cairdeas]

For all the idiots who can't read. I'm not talking about Weapon Classes. I'm talking about Jobs. JOBS ARE NOT CLASSES. Not yet, but with how they've described the Job system they might as well have made them so.

This is seriously the worst move I've seen SE do with FFXIV and I feel it will extremely counter what they've advertised this game to be to its players. I became a huge fan of this game because of its Openness, not because its locked down.

I didn't come and become so involved in FFXIV for it to turn into Ragnarok 2.0


1 Job / 1 Weapon is the most boring thing that has ever been announced for this game.

Things that it alone will mean in the long run.

1. The Chance of a proper Thief Job returning are now completely gone. Gladiator has the Daggers, and Gladiator has Paladin. GG, Thief fans, you can now leave, you are no longer wanted.

2. The Choice of being able to stay your favorite job, but pick a secondary weapon choice for special occasions like when a specific monster is immune or resistant to the damage your current weapon deals are now gone. You will be forced to come as a class and job you do not want to play as for certain fights because "Oh, these crabs are immune to blunt damage." type events.

3. The ability to create unique new jobs gets thrown out the window. Were you waiting for the new version of Puppet Master? What about Summoner? Corsair? Etc.
LOL Too bad, these options will now most likely permanently disappear now.


Seriously. I love you Square Enix, I have loved you since I was a pre-teen. I've been playing your games for over two decades. I've spent over 1200 Dollars play Final Fantasy XI alone for the last decade.

But this decision has all but ruined FFXIV for me. I'm glad I got my moneys worth out of the play time I've had since the game went retail, but unless you can relieve my fears about how boring this system will be. I wont be here to pay when its asked of me.

Me. The person who petitioned for months to get new races added and even got a positive answer for the petition. Really am writing a lolfail thread. I can't freaking believe it.

I think the worst thing SE did with this game, Especially for the english and europeaon players was call Weapons Classes and give them flourishy names. They should have never called them classes or given them special names and just called them by the weapon name. Explained that there are no classes. Weapons teach you special skills as you train with them, kept them called ranks, then created a title system that automatically called you what job you reflected.

If you equip a sword, a bunch of cure spells, and defensive skills with a maybe a shield, the game detects that you've done so and calls you a Paladin. Etc.

But on the other hand swapping out the sword for a spear doesn't remove the fact that you're a defensive white magic spell caster. So you're still a Paladin.

[Sigmakan]

Your opinion is very important. Thanks for the new topic.

[Evangela]

agree! lock 1 job to 1 weapon = stupid idea from the beginning

[DoctorMog]

Sounds like auto attack and the new delay system will allow for classes to use other weapons.

All they have to do is put LNC on a scythe, raise the delay and tada, lancers now use scythes.

Or some similar such method.

[Nikita]

They have seen the opinions of players on this matter (we can only assume) all we can do at this point is sit back and wait to see what they end up handing us!

[Kiroh]

CLASSES can equip more than one type of weapon, so if you're waiting to see a THF job, there's nothing stopping SE from adding it to dagger wielding GLAs later on.

Same with every job you mentioned. PUP? lock it to claw wielding PUGs. SMN? lock it to Canes or radicals and BLM to staves and WHM to wands.

But more than that, there are classes that still haven't been added to the game yet. Arcanist, Musketeer, etc that actually have guilds for them already in the game.

[Keftenk]

Be a Gladiator, Thaumaturge, or Conjurer. There, now you have 2 weapons for each of those jobs. Now stop complaining.

[Anathiel]

Well...I want to hear what they have to say. I haven't seen anything that 100% says its locking jobs to classes. Just that classes unlock jobs and jobs will be the same level as the class.

[Petori]

Who's to say we won't get new classes (not jobs)? Corsair could be a job for Musketeer. Thief concerns me though.

[Evangela]

If 1 Weapon = 1 Job

how they gonna do with DoM?

Conjurer = White Mage (but they have elemental offensive spells???)

Thaumaturge = Black Mage (but all of black magics are conjurer's???)

(New type of Staff?) = Summoner??

what about other Mage type???? Red Mage? Blue Mage? which weapon they're going to lock on them?