I would like to see Classes treated as proper, separate "Jobs"

[Alahra]

instead refine the Armoury System (give classes to the Heavensward Jobs and separate SCH from ACN and give it a new base class), as it's becoming so convoluted now, it's losing consistency

I really wish they would do this. It drives me nuts that Machinist doesn't have a Musketeer base class (there's a guild for it in Limsa Lominsa!), and why Dark Knight didn't branch off of Ravager (from FFTA) is beyond me. Astrologian is a bit harder to decouple into a class and job, but I'm sure they could have done something.

I like the structure of base classes leading into jobs, both because I actually enjoy being low level for new classes (leveling is my favorite thing to do, so starting at level 30 means I get less content—but I also understand it's not everyone's cup of tea) and also because it tickles my nostalgia bone. The idea of "advanced" classes in Final Fantasy has been around since FF1, which had the class change trial. Fighter going into Knight/Paladin in FF1 is fairly analogous to Gladiator going into Paladin in FFXIV, and I want to see more of that, not less.

In terms of SCH/SMN, I've always felt that thematically, SCH branches off of the ACN questline far better than SMN does, but SMN branches off of ACN's abilities better, so which one should be given primacy is tough. But one of them probably should at this point.

But these are such fundamental changes, I don't see it getting done, as it requires a lot of reworking. Would a level 50 DRK need to go back and do 1-30 quests, for instance? Would they renname all of the base SCH abilities? Especially in the case of the latter, they might be tempted to redesign the class from the ground up, which could end up alienating a lot of current SCHs.