Worried About Classes In Stormblood

[Kacho_Nacho]

I recently returned to FFXIV and decided to start a new character. I visited the Dutiful Sisters of Edelweiss and am on my way.

However, I read that S.E. is getting rid of the class job system in Stormblood. It made me wonder.

What was going to happen to my rogue? Heck, what was going to happen to all the classes?

Are we soon going to be playing in a world without marauders, gladiators, or archers? For that matter, what about arcanists?

To me, that would be such a shame because I feel there already is too much emphasis on the jobs. As it stands, once you get your job, there is little reason to go back to playing your original class.

Yet, simply expanding on the classes so they are equal in abilities to the jobs causes there to be too redundancy in abilities and niches. There has to be pruning! Otherwise, the game will become a tangled mess.

So, I am worried. Are all the classes going away?

[Alkimi]

Classes aren't going anywhere, there just won't be any new ones.

Yoshi-P would like to get rid of them, but it's just too much work that would be better spent elsewhere. It's a leftover from 1.0 that they couldn't do much about.

[BorisDaBlade]

It's not just Yoshi that wants to see them gone. Show up in an instance as a class instead of a job and watch how quickly you get kicked.

[DarkerOrange]

Classes are a relic of 1.0 that have no business being in the game, but it will be alot of work to remove them, so it will probably take them a while to do so. There is literally no reason to ever be a class rather than a job in 2.0 onwards.

[Sylvain]

Are we soon going to be playing in a world without marauders, gladiators, or archers? For that matter, what about arcanists?

Wait, that wasn't already the case?

[seekified]

Classes aren't going anywhere in Stormblood. They're changing the cross-class skill system, not classes as a general concept (though they have said that they might do it in 5.0).

[AceTheRedComet]

They will still have the roles Tank, DPS, and Healer... I think the real fear will be the queues....