Anyone else miss the game before jobs?

[Xyno]

I didn't play 1.0, but I really don't understand why the job system even exists. What for it was created? We could as usual raise our classes and gain skills- like in any other mmorpg. What for this separation on skills like pugilist skills and monk skills, when it could be just the common skills of one class

[Felis]

FF XIV 1.0 class system was more like FF XII (an character can equip any skill that he had learned), while FF ARR job system is more like FF XII International Zodiac Job System (where every job have a own specific license board instead of 1 board with everything on it)

I just wish the old THM will make a return as a job. I really liked to be a cone AoE DPS healer (I think cone AoEs are much better than circle AoEs)

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I didn't play 1.0, but I really don't understand why the job system even exists. What for it was created? We could as usual raise our classes and gain skills- like in any other mmorpg. What for this separation on skills like pugilist skills and monk skills, when it could be just the common skills of one class

Jobs have been a staple of Final Fantasy since the first game, and everything else after it. During 1.0, Tanaka wanted to do something different by having unconventional names for "classes" with no jobs in sight. That changed when Yoshida took over.

Think of the starting classes and then jobs in this way. In real life, you go to school and take classes so you want to specialize in something. By gathering a lot of knowledge from your classes, you can specialize in a field career such as a job. Your job is your role in life and what you work for. That's basically what the class and job system are like in FFXIV. You learn your class as a Pugilist by acquiring skills where you can then specialize in the Monk job.