They're thinking about job identities for 8.0

[SeverianLyonesse]

So apparently we'll have to wait for 3 more years until we get a single consideration for actual job flavor?

Is this for real? You couldn't do that for this expansion?

Meanwhile everything is simplified in order to remove any failure state (notably gauge costs for bursts among other things).

They'd better just totally redo half the jobs in 8.0 or even earlier in DT patches:

* Replace SCH's Seraphism with Alexander/Eden or even Omega/Athena stuff.
* Replace SMN's Solar Bahamut with a Shiva Diamond Dust trance.
* Get rid of DRK's Living Shadow, not sure why DRK is a pet job.
* Get rid of WAR's self-sustain, wtf.
* Redo AST so that they play slot machine cards for their *own* damage instead of ruining the entire job fantasy for the sake of "consistency."
* Give WHM back Stone/Aero dammit.
* Give SAM Kaiten back, and fix the colors in the moon/snow sen symbols.
* Give Viper more of an identity than haste-Dragoon. Add some treasure hunter or corsair or judge or Zidane runes. Something to give a pretty flat job concept more dimension.
* Give Pictomancer more interesting things to paint. I'm really not digging hammer+landscape and then a weird creature gambler mini-game that should have been AST's gimmick.
* Reorganize RDM's flow so that it's not piling on finishers; also upgrade fire and stone to visuals that match the new aero and thunder.