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

[SeraviEdalborez]

prepare for what? If your leveling classes specifically for their job, that is a stupid strategy. The reason I say this is, jobs are just specialised versions of that class. And players will be locked into playing ONLY with that classes abilities. Which isn't what the current system is about.

Honestly my 2 cents is people are taking this game to seriously, and their elitism is showing. Which is not a good thing, you got stupid debates because of this mindset, SE don't need to give us details, and no paladin is not confirmed. I highly suggest we do not assume we are getting the "typical" jobs from ffxi. The classes do not really have ties to a certain ffxi job. Like pug was gonna have thief skills, thm is a mix of light and dark spells, while conj is healing and elemental, Glad to what I know doesn't have any healing abilities.

IMO there is nothing we need to prepare for, just play the classes the way you want. Once the job system is out, do the quest put it on and just play as normal.

Quoted. For. Emphasis. For once I agree with you Kilta ^_^

Stop being so concerned about having a shiny name tag that says "Thief" or whatever you're all hoping for.

[Peregrine]

If they just go the easy route and turn CON and THM into BLM and WHM no matter which way they do it there will be massive amounts of raging. I don't want to play WHM so whichever class gets that is essentially wasted SP for me. The only way to do this is to allow CON to become BLM or WHM. To keep things fair (other classes only having one job) they could lock the player on to whichever they choose for 24 hours or whatever so you can't just switch whenever. THM could become anything.

I think they need to scrap whm or at the very least keep it in their pocket. I don't want to need a white mage, but I don't want a white mage to be useless, and that's the way it ends up. You can't find balance. The energy states on each side of that reaction are too low to allow any middle product where a whm is balanced.

Whoever gets whm dumped on their class will be pissed, so I hope it doesn't even show up. No one wants to be a better cure ***** than they already are.

[Peregrine]

Quoted. For. Emphasis. For once I agree with you Kilta ^_^

Stop being so concerned about having a shiny name tag that says "Thief" or whatever you're all hoping for.

Not gonna happen, shortstuff. You can either prepare for a reality that exists, or pretend in one that doesn't. Heads up advance prepares for a reality that exists in which you have no hope in hell of ever changing.

People will not do what you just told them to. Time to act accordinly.

[SeraviEdalborez]

As Kilta said, prepare for what? The handful(?) of abilities you will get that you have no idea what they will do?

edit: Chances are if you don't like how a class plays now , you won't like the job that goes with it. If you don't like any of them now (and think you will just because it says "Job name")... unfortunate I guess.

[Molly_Millions]

SE likes to surprise it's players, why would this be any different?

[Petori]

As Kilta said, prepare for what? The handful(?) of abilities you will get that you have no idea what they will do?

Their role? It's been said that Jobs are more party based than regular classes and that their current plan is to have only 1 job per class.

[Molly_Millions]

Their role? It's been said that Jobs are more party based than regular classes and that their current plan is to have only 1 job per class.

How about finding out how the new abilities work in reality when they are actually in the game? IMO it's more fun that way anyhow.

[Peregrine]

Plan for the loss of expectation. For the lack of a desired job. To have the desired job ready in time. If you wanted to heal and con got blm. If you wanted to nuke and con got whm.

People have choices to make that take time to implement. Just as the devs need time to develop content, players need time to react to development decisions. You can't just spring crap on people. Sometimes surprises aren't good.

[Petori]

How about finding out how the new abilities work in reality when they are actually in the game? IMO it's more fun that way anyhow.

Where in my post I said anything about abilities?

[SeraviEdalborez]

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.
When devs give you newly implemented content, you experiment and find out what it does.

Don't predict the punch coming, feel it and roll with it.
Don't predict the gunshot (sporting event context), react to it.
Ok enough analogies.