Quote Originally Posted by Roarmiaka View Post
FFXIV desperatly needs an expansion where it splits off the Classes into more jobs, just like summoner and scholar, They took awhile to figure out how to do it and i think its in a good state to do it with others:

Archer: Bard and Ranger
Marauder: Warrior and Berserker
Lancer: Dragoon and Sentinel (could be tank?)
Pugilist: Monk and Skirmisher
Conjuror: Whitemage and Geomancer
Gladiator: Paladin and Duelist

idk coming up with names out of the blue but get my point. These classes can be split to give us more variety with weapons and abilities.

Ranger could keep most of the Archer skills, but instead of songs at 30 we branch off into pets or traps or other fun Ranger gimmicks! There is no reason they are restricted from doing this. The story for bard wouldn't even need to change and we would still have our bow happy bards still on board (still would like a crossbow job too though!)
The SMN/SCH type split with shared EXP is seen as pretty problematic now by the devs at least, so it probably shouldn't work exactly like that. But personally I wouldn't mind jobs that share weapons and some basic class skills.