Players need job/class combo info ASAP to have time to prepare.

[Petori]

I wish to be a bard so I can serenade you all.

♪ Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you♫

First I thought it was only a colored text but you didn't let me down.

[Nilheim]

I'm disappointed that classes will only have 1 job, but it's ok for some of the classes. For examples when I started GLA I thought I'd be a DPS swordsman, turned out GLA isn't quite that. So it makes sense for it to become PLD and nothing else, I guess. But as it's been said, CON and THM are so hybrid they can only do 2 things:

1. Recontrust them from bottom to top. This will inevitable cause a lot of rage, I think everyone can see it coming.
2. Give 2 jobs to THM and CON. For example, WHM and BLM for CON, and I don't know, maybe RDM and DRK for THM? Giving WHM and BLM to CON makes sense. RDM makes sense for THM but I can't really think of another job for it that isn't far fetched to some extent. DRK is, because THM is a mage and DRK is a fighter. TIM(?) is, because nothing in the lore indicates that THM has any control over time. So yeah.

Anyway I think option number 2 would be much better, and I was actually hoping they'd give 2 jobs for each class.

Something like this:

GLA: PLD or ??? (NIN? lol)
PGL: MNK or THF
MRD: WAR or ??? (DRK?)
LNC: DRG or ??? (SAM?)
ARC: RNG or MSK/COR
CON: BLM or WHM
THM: RDM or ??? (TIM? DRK?)

[Wynn]

It certainly would have made more sense to give two options, just so the player actually does have an option. I imagine that was complicated for them though because some classes just don't have any logical job beyond the first. Lancer > Dragoon comes to mind.

But maybe this is just the start and later they will add more for each class. Who knows.

[Rowyne]

Anyway I think option number 2 would be much better, and I was actually hoping they'd give 2 jobs for each class.

Something like this:

GLA: PLD or ??? (NIN? lol)
PGL: MNK or THF
MRD: WAR or ??? (DRK?)
LNC: DRG or ??? (SAM?)
ARC: RNG or MSK/COR
CON: BLM or WHM
THM: RDM or ??? (TIM? DRK?)

I was hoping they'd go more that way, myself. Since jobs won't be leveled, they're really like choosing a spec for your class. Give us a choice of direction instead of locking into one class / one job.

[CptGrimlock]

Well Im going to go off the 1-1 ratio;and what we have seen so far of the BLM and DRK AF type gear.

GLA: PLD
PGL: MNK
MRD: DRK
LNC: DRG
ARC: RNG
CON: WHM
THM: BLM

I would be VERY happy with this.That being said I'm still in favor of a FF tactics style job system,which i still see as a possibility either now or when advanced jobs come out.

[Wynn]

I see MRD being WAR instead of DRK when the jobs roll out.

I also see the mages being reversed.

CON: BLM
THM: WHM

[Shikaree]

What I'd really like to see is a branch between advanced roles for our current jobs. It would give a little more uniqueness between play styles. Now I know some current jobs like LNC could only possibly go DRG, but we have CON that could go WHM or BLM, THM could be all RDM or RDM and Time Mage/???...yeah others have mentioned this before.

For me it's a bother to know atm that this only upgrades into this.

[Peregrine]

I see MRD being WAR instead of DRK when the jobs roll out.

I also see the mages being reversed.

CON: BLM
THM: WHM

Same. Con is already not useful compared to thm. Better to give the thm whm and con blm and let the thms try to pitch their usefulness as a main healer/party support while con goes DD.

I kindof hope marauder goes berserker. Even more offense than warrior. Marauder is just mediocre at everything they're made to do, and the argument that that triple combination of average makes someone wanted is kindof how warrior started off. If it weren't for berserk and agressor definitively stating that no, warrior is a DD not a tank, it'd have failed miserably in XI.

So Id like to see MRD become drk or brk, or much much more offensively oriented. Not so much warrior, or average-good at everything, not best at anything which is just a reinforcement of what marauder fails to be.

[CptGrimlock]

Yea,it could very easily go that way if MAR isn't DRK I think WAR as well,I was just thinking that since we saw DRK gear it would be a job,and it seems to make sense if we have PLD that we have its opposite in DRK,just as i think we will have WHM and BLM.

[Shikaree]

I wish to be a bard so I can serenade you all.

♪ Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you♫

Then in that case I want dancer so I can dance when I want to.