Know what is useless? Your Class.

[Astralos]

I feel like the main reason this is true is because of the questionable selection of cross-class skills. There isn't an especially large variety right now, and some of the cross-class skills make me wonder why they were made cross-class to begin with.

Maybe if every ability up to half of the maximum level (so, Lv25 for now) was cross-class, Jobless characters would become more viable. Or maybe make it like FFV, where if you maxed a Job, it would confer some benefits (e.g., bonus stats, and maybe one Job Ability and Trait) to one or more Classes.

[Mychael]

After thinking about it, I'd rather them entirely remove classes than try to make them useful.

Simply leveling PLD, SMN, and SCH from the beginning means that people actually learn those jobs, as opposed to leveling to 50 as SMN then trying to play SCH for shorter queues.

Also, all of the jobs have returned from previous FFs; none of the class names have ever been used before FFXIV 1.0.

I feel like the main reason this is true is because of the questionable selection of cross-class skills. There isn't an especially large variety right now, and some of the cross-class skills make me wonder why they were made cross-class to begin with.

Maybe if every ability up to half of the maximum level (so, Lv25 for now) was cross-class, Jobless characters would become more viable. Or maybe make it like FFV, where if you maxed a Job, it would confer some benefits (e.g., bonus stats, and maybe one Job Ability and Trait) to one or more Classes.

I wish that would work, but it would just lead to:

"WTF, your GLD isn't 50 so your defense is lower?"
*vote kick*

To be honest the soloing for the job quests is what bugs me most, they should have made it like you have to complete a trial with people kinda like when you get your relic weapon. Woukd have made the whole job thing something more exclusive to unlock and not just an automatic transfer you do at level 30. We would see more variety then too between classes and jobs.

That's how it was in 1.XX with the release of jobs. Though it's true that the Duty Finder would help, there were a lot of newer players who couldn't complete job quests because no one would help them.