Quote Originally Posted by Davorok View Post
We obviously need some clarification from SE on this but my guess is that The Grand Companies will somehow magically "imbue us" with these new abilities/jobs just for the duration of the mission/dungeon/raids. I don't think we will even have the option to play the jobs outside of Grand Company Party Missions.
This can't be the case since SE said that we will have special equipment that can only be equipped while the jobs are attached. Also Grand Companies aren't the only Party related content in XIV..

Quote Originally Posted by Zenaku View Post
no i'm going by what SE said Jobs can't be very good at soloing due to the fact that i don't know. If i be a monk i don't have any good way of cure due to the fact that i'm lock to Monk type JA/WS.

Jobs would be best for Dungeons and party type and people who don't want to party still can go off and be on there class. if they want to solo with there job they can but going to be hard without any type of cure on a DD type job.
You don't have to have cure or cross class skills to solo. Pugilist can solo fairly easily with no cross class abilities especially since they have second wind, and I'm pretty sure Chakra will be added to monk along with strong DD skills, so why couldn't a Monk solo?

For many players that don't have acces to cross class skills, jobs will make them better at soloing with the job equipped.

Think about it. If I'm a Gladiator with no cross class skills that can solo fairly easy, why wouldn't you think I can solo better by having the paladin job equipped that gives me healing and defensive skills along with the artifact gear?