Quote Originally Posted by allenshu View Post
Correct.

Players can still play as classes in the future, which means classes are not replaced by jobs. Therefore, if you want flexibility, you can stay with classes without problems. On the other hand, if you want specific expert actions or equipments, you may need to put the job title on to be allowed to use those. This is why SE said, players can use classes in small party for daily leves or SP-gain purposes. For big events or fighting HNM, players will need full party and expert jobs to handle more difficult battles and situations.

Like I said, based on the released info, this class/job concept is essentially the same with what we have now. What SE doing is just give more hints to let players know what roles/jobs they can be based on the classes by setting some bonus and limitations corresponding to specific roles/jobs.
I don't think it will be okay for people to just be their combined classes without the jobs because they have stated there will be situations and battles where roles have to be filled and done so particularly by a job. It can't essentially be the same as what we have now because the filter of jobs is going to stream line it into something different than the mix and match system we've come to know. They will both have their possible places in the game, (regular classes solo, jobs with parties) but you wouldn't have to worry about being a thaumaturge rank 50 and a conjurer rank 50 to be your ideal white mage if you possibly aren't allowed to use skills from the other class. This is speaking towards the immediate future jobs and not later on down the line combined class jobs. Which still probably would not require you to rank up both to the max level if you wanted the job.