Quote Originally Posted by Bluebun View Post
You have to look at it from this point of view: They never intended to add Jobs. Jobs came as a result of people disliking SE's attempts at "Different" classes in a unpopular game. People wanted the traditional jobs to capture the nostalgic FF feeling, so Jobs are now being introduced.

With that said, they never intended the lore to play into the traditional jobs, hence, classes will get some major redefining changes in order for classes to suit more to the traditional jobs.

We've seen AoE Cures and 2 additional Raises go to CON(Only), and damage increases to nukes for THM. It doesn't take a genius to see more than likely CON will end up WHM, and THM will end up BLM.

I notice a trend of the most vocal people wanting CON to somehow be both WHM and BLM, having CON as one of their career classes. To you people, I am sorry for you thinking you were ranking up CON to be the BLM, but more than likely you'll end up being the WHM.
It takes a special kind of genius to assume that THM must get BLM if CON gets WHM, when such a suggestion is not found in evidence in any way.

I will agree that CON is clearly getting WHM, and it is clearly going to be one of the first jobs released due to two major points:
  1. CON recently received multiple tiers of Raise spells as well as exclusive rights to AoE Heals - effectively making it the healer of choice.
  2. Jobs are being released for the express purpose of effective party-play, in which case a healer job is necessary and thus must be included in the first release.

So everyone can agree that it is effectively definite that WHM is among the first jobs to be released, and that it is most likely CON that will receive said job.

BLM, however, is only confirmed to be a finalized job name. Not confirmed in any way to be among the first release, and suggesting as much does not satisfy any need in a party environment as DDs are not particularly lacking.

Given the popularity of this thread, I would request the OP take advantage of this and post explicitly what the known facts are exactly - and how the released job names are not necessarily the first batch of jobs we are getting.

This way people can make educated guesses based on what little info we have, and we have less geniuses.