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

[Duelle]

In it's current state (which we all seem to agree sux) FFXIV is just a "Zerg-Fest" like WoW, and others. It doesn't matter what your job/class/skills are (except you almost always need a tank & healer). The majority (vocal majority anyway) wanted more well defined classes/jobs to defeat well designed monsters/dungeons that require strategy over DD (zergs).

Have you actually fought things in WoW? I mean beyond just Deadmines or Ragefire Chasm. That's a pretty bold claim, and one that would also get you laughed out of any raiding guild.

the higher tier Dungeons will likely devolve into Specific Party Setups and Class/Job Skills, especially due to the 60 min. time constraint.

Again, why does it have to be this way? Why must the choices of individual players get tossed out the window? A job system is not an excuse for such a thing to happen. Was not in XI and is not here.

[Lerris]

Have you actually fought things in WoW? I mean beyond just Deadmines or Ragefire Chasm. That's a pretty bold claim, and one that would also get you laughed out of any raiding guild.
Again, why does it have to be this way? Why must the choices of individual players get tossed out the window? A job system is not an excuse for such a thing to happen. Was not in XI and is not here.

But it happened. And it will happen again. Because of the distribution of personality types drawn to MMOs.

[Duelle]

But it happened. And it will happen again. Because of the distribution of personality types drawn to MMOs.

Again, this won't happen or will be very minimal if you balance the classes and jobs in a way that they're interchangable in their respective roles. You facilitate pigeonholing when you design classes poorly (FFXI's BST and SMN being examples), leave lingering problems unresolved (Red Mage's innability to melee in party content), or simply sit on your thumbs for no good reason (blink tanking). The worst of it comes when you create shallow utility for a job, like THF had to endure being there only for treasure hunter, though were otherwise worthless during a boss encounter.