Quote Originally Posted by Renik View Post
Wrong, Yoshi said the game was designed to include Hybrid classes in the future, if they decided to delay the release was to keep the DF ptys simple for the new player to the genre, this was said in an old interview back to when 2.1 was released, and the decision to delay them was announced in a live letter.
Eh. I found the interview you're talking about. While they do mention the hybrid role in it, that interview is also really old and outdated. I'm kinda leaning toward taking it with a grain of salt since plans for things like that can change really fast if they decide that it's not going to work out. We already know that hybrid roles aren't due out for the Heavensward expansion since they've already announced the new classes available for that, and they all fit quite squarely into the Holy Trinity. Either it's fallen by the wayside or it's something that's been pushed to the next expansion, neither of which is difficult to believe. It was mentioned in the recent Time Magazine interview, but all he really cited was the difficulty of making it balanced and mentions the possiblity of a "skill tree". He does mention Red Mage is one of his favorite jobs, but that could mean we're getting it as a hybrid role or that it's just being adapted as a pure DPS. Hell, it could just mean he likes dropping bread crumbs to see what conspiracy theories we come up with.

I think it's about time to add hybrid classes, i don't feel comfortable at all playing a plain role, i used to play RDM and BLU in ffxi because they were hybrids, and played hybrid classes in most MMOs, just because that's my role, the same way some people like to tank or heal, this game is supposed to appeal to the masses and part of the masses wants to play hybrids.
"Part of the masses" =/= "The masses". If they think it's only going to appeal to a small portion of the playerbase, they're probably not going to do it. If you need confirmation, just look at the design choices they made with Au Ra. :3

Quote Originally Posted by Akiza View Post
Summoner is a hybrid job and they are in the game so I'm sure they can add other hybrid jobs as well
How is it a hybrid job? Having Raise, E4E, Virus, and a really crappy Physick doesn't make you hybrid. o.O