Personally, I'd like to see Classes made into "alternate-jobs"

[Chiramu]

Yes, a hundred times yes. I'm hoping in my heart of hearts that we will see Berserker sometime in 3.xx (even though I don't expect it). Every additional job they've announced thus far has been a bitter disappointment to me since Berserker is one of the few jobs I am truly waiting for. But I think Warrior takes up their iteration of "Berserker" sadly.

Warrior and Berserker are two different jobs in the FF lore so Berserker is still on the table imo ^^. Berserker could possibly be worked into the lore of Heavensward too, it depends on how much time the developers have on making new classes but I think the Berserker quest giver would fit in well with the atmosphere of Heavensward.

[Ryans]

Note there are a number of jobs that show NPCs to actively have them. NIN and Paladin come to mind first. They just can't switch as freely as the players can.

Are you talking about the NPCs that are part of the job quest lines? That doesn't really count as they are the ones that taught us to become the jobs. The average, everyday citizen of Eorzea cannot become one of the jobs at the moment. There are multiple job stones out in the world, but they seem to be fairly controlled by small groups or simply rare. Add in the fact that the job stones are basically alive and choose to whom they grant powers, I don't see the public becoming the jobs any time soon.

[Terin]

Regarding the need for pre-30 Tanks, perhaps there is a workaround for that. Have the Gladiators and Marauders remain unchanged until 30, at which point you can undergo their own quests, which sacrifice Enmity bonuses for additional damage, and chaNing certain abilities (perhaps even giving them Job Crystals of their own?).

Like I said, I just think they're too interesting to leave in the past. Maybe even pull inspiration from their 1.0 counterparts, such as the Conjurer being more Nature-oriented, to give them more unique themes.

[Bishop81]

Personally, I think the base Classes are too cool to be left as redundant relics of 1.0.

I second this opinion.

They all have such nice lore and background behind them. Kind of wish you can continue their story-lines and hang out with these Class NPCs.

[OMEGA_HACK]

I could see the Marauder becoming a Viking (2H Axe DPS job), they already have the "sea-born" kind of background and would fit better than say a Berserker.

[RiceisNice]

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This is exactly the problem with the classing system, and how they really cant extend past two jobs:class without an overhual.

A while back people wanted thief to be a 2nd job extension of rogue, but the problem is that they would more or less have the same fundamental gameplay as ninja since they both draw from rogue skills. They only got away with this in regards to SCH/SMN is because they're completely different roles, but that comes with it's own problems (you cant really buff SMN without buffing SCH, and vice versa).

[Wildsprite]

We need tanks from 15 to 30.

an easy fix for this would be job stones for those classes to become jobs.
make it so with the stones the classes such as
I have some odd ideas. and please they are just ideas but some of them could work
Marauder becomes Marauder DPS with the stone
Gladiator becomes Gladiator DPS with the stone
Conjurer becomes Conjurer DPS with the stone

Lancer becomes Lancer Tank with the stone <--I think this one could really work well if they put thought into it
Pugilist becomes Pugilist Tank with the stone <--this one might work well too
Rogue becomes a dancer esque buffer DPS role like from FFXI with the stone
Thaumaturg becomes debuffer/DPS with the stone
Arcanist becomes erm....sure they could become another healer but they already do with SCH.


not sure what exactly you would do with the rest

[Leowilde]

I'm not sure I agree with the specific changes you mentioned, such as monk losing positioning bonuses etc, but I definetly agree with the concept. I would very much like to see classes being viable options for play again, and anything that adds more choices to which class/job you can play as is good in my eyes. So yes, my support is added to this. Have my like, Sir!

[Zfz]

an easy fix for this would be job stones for those classes to become jobs.

Which basically is the SCH/SMN situation. Then we are back to square one with the question of "what about the gladiator class?"

[Wildsprite]

Which basically is the SCH/SMN situation. Then we are back to square one with the question of "what about the gladiator class?"

no actually it isn't they don't have to make the base class stones exactly like the job stones they could make it so that the stone overrides the bonuses which is what they should have done in the first place. or they could just make the base class stones bring the stats of the class up to par with the job making the class something people would use again