Requesting Information on Jobs: Preparing for 1.21

[Mychael]

It's not only that. You are just focusing on the abilities here in term of jobs. What of armor and weapons? I think that the AF is job specific and not class specific. The CNJ can not use the WHM armor (as far as I know). Which SE can really play good with why you need to be a WHM in a party and not a CNJ (maybe armor gives 10% more healing? Thus making it more viable to be a WHM in a party)

This is just a WHM example, you can think and pick more examples from other jobs

While you're absolutely right, my personal preference is that the defining differences should be independent from gear. While gear can make a huge difference (i.e why WHM's Cure II/III could be higher than any other job in XI), I feel like a naked WHM should have a notable advantage over a naked CNJ. They do, in abilities, and that's why I seemed to focus on them.

I just had an idea, though--what if the Job Stone we equipped gave +10% Healing Potency, PLD job stone gave +10% Defense, etc?

[HokSeven]

While you're absolutely right, my personal preference is that the defining differences should be independent from gear. While gear can make a huge difference (i.e why WHM's Cure II/III could be higher than any other job in XI), I feel like a naked WHM should have a notable advantage over a naked CNJ. They do, in abilities, and that's why I seemed to focus on them.

I just had an idea, though--what if the Job Stone we equipped gave +10% Healing Potency, PLD job stone gave +10% Defense, etc?

I don't know why but I thought that was a given. As they said that going with WHM should unlock abilities from other classes. That in turn should give you something to want the WHM. Maybe the whm is not a prime example, but I don't want to loose say sentinel or other abilities on my LNC to become DRG, for what? Jump?

So a whm should indeed get cure +10% or something. Similarly other jobs should offer something besides the 5 abilities. And that is why we need the update on the lodestone about the jobs soon :P