The Advance Classes are here!!! so what will become of the primary jobs.....

[Felis]

You can
Because bard get a bow with a harp on it ^^

[Pancakes]

Oh I already see it..

- OHAI Archer Do u need it?
- Yes plz.
- HELLO
- BRD plz
- but but..
- /NIN plz.
- *sad panda*

Yup, ARC so go~ing to die
THM and CON i see as the only ones that may survive as all other jobs are just no diffrent than their classes cept the name obviously

[AmyRae]

Yup, ARC so go~ing to die
THM and CON i see as the only ones that may survive as all other jobs are just no diffrent than their classes cept the name obviously

You may not have noticed, but not only are THM and CNJ dead, but they've been replaced by doppelgangers of their former selves. Someone who leveled CNJ to nuke is going to be sorry they did.

Linkshell Leader: Oh, I see on your profile you've leveled CNJ
Would-be BLM: I did originally for the nukes--
Linkshell Leader: Come to the event on WHM please
Would-be BLM: But I've got THM to 50 now, I--
Linkshell Leader: WHM kthx!
Would-be BLM: Okay ._.

*next week*

Would-be BLM: Finally, I get to go as BLM. Feel the burn, baby!
Linkshell Leader: Uh, actually we're going to have the DRGs nuke.
Would-be BLM: /monocle D--did you say... DRGs... nuke?
Linkshell Leader: Yeah, their fire breath is awesome sauce, and we can keep the BRD on TP songs and boost all the melee at the same time.
Would-be BLM: Er. Well. I could still toss a few nukes in there all the same, right?
Linkshell Leader: We don't really have room for that now. Could you--
Would-be BLM: --go WHM, right?
Linkshell Leader: You're a peach!
Would-be BLM: Okay ._.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

mmmm as long as I can be a Dragoon, and equip some Cure stuff, so I can be a Holy Dragoon, I am happy

[Jinko]

mmmm as long as I can be a Dragoon, and equip some Cure stuff, so I can be a Holy Dragoon, I am happy

Not guna happen

[TheFatHousecat]

mmmm as long as I can be a Dragoon, and equip some Cure stuff, so I can be a Holy Dragoon, I am happy

Jobs can't equip abilities from classes other than the matching class (LNC - DRG; also, assuming that you'll be able to use ALL the abilities from the matching class). So looking at that, you can of see why a DRG in a solo or light party situation might not be optimal.

[Katella_Avenlea]

mmmm as long as I can be a Dragoon, and equip some Cure stuff, so I can be a Holy Dragoon, I am happy

It is my understanding that Jobs in FFXIV is going to be limited to their skills and some skills from their main class associated, so I don't believe you will be able to have any "cure" type stuff equipped unless Lancer or Dragoon gets some kind of "cure skill" of their own. In this way, FFXIV is limiting the roles of jobs even more so than FFXI, because in FFXI you still had your subjob to work with. That won't be the case this time around.

[Zanfire]

like others have said, expect lots of classes to pretty much go away, at least for DoW...and everyone who sees ARC will go "get on BRD noobz, why just shoot when you can buff and shoot". MNK/WAR/DRG..and very likely PLD are going to be played 99% of the time over the classes, they already play their roles as it is (and will be more into those roles when the skills change anyways). almost makes you wonder why bother with the classes at all....might as well stick onion knight in there and let it be the skill mixer lol.

[Kailea_Nagisa]

oh yeah, forgot they said that -.- oh well I can still do LCN/CON for light parties, then switch to DRG for real fights

[Gennosuke]

Well Yoshida is doing his best in fixing a system that was not clearly though out by his predecessor, I'm sure part of him wishes he could rip the whole damn mess out and start again, but that would cause a lot of negative feeback as some like yourself have become accustomed to the customisation that the armory provides.

The majority wanted uniquiness when it came to classes/roles I'm not going to argue about what you feel is right or wrong thats your opinion and you are entitled to it although personally I have always hated the armory system and if it was completely removed and all we had were jobs I would be comepletely fine with that.

I didn't buy this game for its unique armory system, I bought it because it was Final Fantasy.
I don't expect the game to live up to Tanaka's promises either he is long gone.

This.

Completely agree, summed up how i feel about this too. it would have been much better to just replace Armoury system mess with the new job system, they really are making classes for the most part redundant and it is pretty much being phased out, not to mention the classes themselves have become more specialized as well making their abilities more exclusive and in turn transforming into more of a job than class anymore. Why then introduce jobs when classes are essentially becoming more or less Job oriented. More reason to scrap out classes and just have jobs.

Redundancy = Confusion = Complaints

Bad design decision.
Had the concept really made any sense, people wont keep complaining one time after the other, but alas.. yoshi trying to be safe with playerbase.. i say just scrap off class system and let the job system shine for all as is really intended and have some functional and logical cross-class system in place, not the silly 'Grind every single class to 50' system we had up till now, which will be even more ridiculous now to justify the grind to 50 on all classes with classes going more exclusive as of next patch.

Pull the trigger on the class system already, Rid it of it's misery!
It is but an unneeded relic of the past trying to desperately survive in new XIV era.