Two healer starting classes

[Taika]

So something Yoshi promised was that base classes would be removed completely by 5.0, meaning that all ARR jobs would start instead at level 1. No Conjurer, but instead you'd start off on White Mage. This also means that not only would Summoner and Scholar finally get that split they deserve, but Scholar would also start off at level 1.

I can't believe they haven't done this already... Classes have literally no function in the game.

[bass9020]

Im glad I got to enjoy the classes in 1.0 and then again when 2.0 launched. The amount of hate for classes from players in this game is unreal lol never will understand.

[Squintina]

I can't believe they haven't done this already... Classes have literally no function in the game.

Carbuncle is cuter to me than the job pets. I like having that little one around for my solo content.

[SendohJin]

I can't believe they haven't done this already... Classes have literally no function in the game.

because removing them takes a lot of work with little to no benefit for most of the current playerbase. if the existence of classes somehow affect your play on a day to day basis you really are playing the game wrong and that's hard to do.

[Taika]

because removing them takes a lot of work with little to no benefit for most of the current playerbase. if the existence of classes somehow affect your play on a day to day basis you really are playing the game wrong and that's hard to do.

Well not anymore, but in HW it affected me on daily basis when I had to keep swapping my stats for SMN and SCH. :P Now it only affects me when I stumble upon people who for some reason haven't unlocked their jobs (= done any of their quests) after level 30, but that's really rare now too. Now it's just a weird remnant that has no benefit to anyone in any way. I don't understand how removing them would affect players in any way though.

[Squintina]

I don't understand how removing them would affect players in any way though.

That's kind of the point. Removing them isn't as simple as just hitting a delete button, there's a lot of code and testing involved. To spend developer time removing something that doesn't really hurt anyone, and is just a starter version of a job, would be a waste when that time could be spent on other things that players actually would see a benefit from. It's not like it's such a hassle to go from a class questline to a job questline. Replacing that with one big quest line would not make it that much of a different experience.