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

[Arcell]

True but the current classes do have more than one weapon. Glad: Sword/dagger. Con: Wand/cane. Thaum: Scepter/Staff. Musketeer even looks like it'll have pistol and rifle.

[AlexiaKidd]

True but the current classes do have more than one weapon. Glad: Sword/dagger. Con: Wand/cane. Thaum: Scepter/Staff. Musketeer even looks like it'll have pistol and rifle.

Yes that is true but all those weapons are very similar, what about something like a DRK using a G.Sword and a Scythe or a SAM using a G.Katana or Polearm?

I guess the main thing is why are they going to all this trouble to shoehorn the Job system into the Class system when in the long run it would be easier to just remove the Class system as it currently stands. The Class system was designed with a purpose of letting us create our own unique Job's and the Classes would provide us with the Building Blocks to achieve that. It seemed a good idea on paper but it didn't really work out so good, now SE are further limiting Cross Classing, removing Physical Level and then adding a Job system on top of it to even further distance themselves from the original vision and I can't help but ask, why bother?

Surely in the long run it would just be easier to make the Classes actual Job's and remove their ties to a certain weapon. What I mean is just make GLA a PLD, make ARC a RNG, make PUG a MNK and so on. Let the Job learn it's own skills, traits and abilities and then let the weapons be used for learning weapon skills specific for that weapon only. Then they just add a "can be equipped" by to each weapon individually. So Sword A can be equipped by PLD, WAR, DRK, RDM, THF but Sword B can be equipped by PLD and RDM only.

Yes the Lore would not make sense in it's current form but come on, we have only had 3 or 4 Class missions for each class isn't it? They could lower the level required on them and then you start your proper Journey to becoming a PLD after through additional quests.

I guess we will have to wait and see what happens but it just seems like they are over complicating things and I fear we will end up with a half assed system that is limited by the very system it has been built upon.