Extend Classes into full Jobs?

[dday3six]

Classes aren't set in stone. Neither are Jobs. Nothing is impossible.

This is ever the favorite fall back of people who have nothing of substance to respond with...

Ideally they should do away with Classes all together. Have everything be a Job.

And SE may going forward, they have at least with Dark Knight. However classes exist as they do now to highlight that you can play any class or job on a single Player Character. Cross-class skills reward players for trying more than one. Jobs requiring 30/15 also encourages players to try other classes.

Funny you should use ACN as an example. SCH is pretty different from ACN. Vast majority of the skills from ACN aren't used by SCH in their defined role.

Physick is the number one Healing Spell used by a Scholar. This so even when level synced Scholar will still have a healing Spell. They also make heavy use of Aetherflow, Eye for an Eye, Virus, and Resurrection. Even still a good Scholar or White Mage for that matter is going to DPS and Heal. Else they have great room for improvement. All the skills Scholar use to DPS are from Arcanist.

It's kind of dumb that they put so much effort into Class lore then toss it out of the window after Lv 30 - e.g. ROG.

Maybe you don't care about the lore but there are people that do.

I guess you missed the part connecting the very similar fighting styles of a Rogue (Thancred) and a Ninja (Yugiri).

There is a certain cognitive dissonance when talking about "redundancy" given the current state of the Class/Job system. (Not to mention that Archer -> Bard is a tad weird ... What doesn't shooting arrows have to do with playing music?)

I just had to respond to this...

One of the Sangam literature works, the Kallaadam, contains a story as to how the first yaaḻ harp was created from a bow.

Allen a dale was a wondering Minstrel (depicted as playing a Harp) who in Robin Hood legend became part of Hood's Merry Men. He is cited as inspiration for D&D Bards, and D&D inspired the original Final Fantasy.

Also in the Hobbit, the character named Bard is an Archer. Mythril is from Tolkien Mythology as well.

So yeah...I care about lore too, and there exists plenty of inspirational lore to support Bards to be Archers.