No More Classes?

[Wintersandman]

though THM (in your example) has absolutely no tank options, where ACN has a bunch of supportive healing options (physics, E4E, virus, raise).

The only supportive healing options are Raise and Physicks. Other classes can do debuffs like your referring to.

They've also said they aren't considered Jobs because they don't have a base class, and they're called "extra jobs". So if anything, they'll just be like a class with higher stats to make up for not having the stats from a Job Crystal.

Again without the crystal, you can call them a Job but in all actuality there is nothing to distinguish them from classes.

The requirements are that you have to have a class to 30 to even unlock. If they don't have a crystal and it is just a weapon why even bother calling them a 'Job' and not just call them a class.

Let's be honest 'Extra Job' is just silly. It is just a way to define why they are doing something differently. If they called them a class, then everyone would assume that they could upgrade them later on. If they called them a 'Job' everyone would assume there is a base class. But by calling them an "Extra Job" is really just a way to appease the masses and keep it simple on their end without having to go into any further explanation.

This guy explains exactly that.

I don't think classes are being thrown out all together.. why 3.0 jobs don't have classes, imo, is based out of necessity

1. level increase to 60
2. 3 new Jobs being introduced simultaneously

In the PAX interview YoshiP mentioned how difficult doing 3 new jobs at once was for the battle team. I think they have gone this 'no class' route for these 3.0 jobs specifically to ease the balancing issues that arise from creating new classes.

If these 3 had base classes, then the battle team would have had to QA Test all 3 classes as well as the 3 jobs. This task becomes exponentially more difficult when you consider that classes have access to ALL cross-class abilities.. I think they did it this way just to make their job easier, and to get the new jobs balanced and ready for 3.0 launch on time.