Don't misslead people about what their job does, please

[Unglitteringold]

I wonder if people are coming in from WoW, where even after you've chosen a class there is still some wiggle room for what role you will play in a dungeon party. For example, in WoW you could be a Warrior, but there is a tanking spec and a DPS spec. A Priest can potentially be a healer or a DPS. And a Druid can actually be anything. It just depends on what talents you pick later on.

I came from WoW and when I was doing research about what class to roll in FFXIV I read about job crystals. I assumed that there would be job crystals that could be used to play different roles. To this day I'm confused as to why each class only has one job crystal to go with it. Why can't GLA transition into a tank OR a DPS? Why can't Lancers and monks become tanks?
Why can't archers become DPS if they don't want to be a support class? It seems like SE is missing a golden opportunity here to use job crystals to create a more diverse set of classes that people can explore. This would also be a great way to give people reasons to go back to low level zones/dungeons and help to give more pre-endgame content to have fun with.
But back to the topic at hand - I agree that it should be made more clear that if you roll Gladiator or Marauder (neither of which even SOUND like tank classes) you will be a tank, or make all tank/healer classes like Arcanist where you can branch out.

[ElieDavion]

But back to the topic at hand - I agree that it should be made more clear that if you roll Gladiator or Marauder (neither of which even SOUND like tank classes) you will be a tank, or make all tank/healer classes like Arcanist where you can branch out.

wont every happen again for the trouble they went through that cuz to fix 1 job they might create a prob for the other job.
dont get me wrong it would be nice to have multible job crystals for a job so i could be dps gladi or whatever but wont happen