I really hope they do away with classes...

Answer me this... How are they gonna implement Samurai, Ninja, Musketeer.

Those are gonna have to be new classes with their own set of jobs?
So Dark Knight? Everyone is saying its gonna be a MRD job. A Dark Knight with a great axe? So they are saying that classes are gonna have multiple jobs to choose from right? Whats a samurai gonna have? Whats a musketeer gonna have?

Make this simple on us SE, do away with classes and have each job work off its own weapons and abilities...

NIN > katana
SAM > 2h katana
DRK > scythe
MSK > a freaking gun please...only time you see a gun around here is during Limsa's opening scenes.

Give Bard an instrument and give Archer back its dang bow. Yeah its cool whatever Bard has a bow but come on we have 4 songs? I love bard and would love to see a fully fleshed out job. XI had over 50 songs on bard and we get 4? I don't wanna see my favorite jobs just be a couple of new abilities tacked on to a generic class. Why does SE insist on taking the easy route.

IMO make EACH job unique and exciting with its own mechanics and its own weapon. I hate to see what's gonna happen in the future. Imagine MRD with WAR DRK and some other random job all weilding great axes and each job with only a few more abiliies. Add to the fact that they spend time adding weapons and armor that are class specific, I mean NO ONE WANTS TO PLAY MRD when you can play WAR. Even if it is better in solo situations etc etc blah blah which seems to be everyone's defense against removing classes.

"Well MRD has access to more spells and can solo better and can use a stronger weapon than WAR can!"

So MRD can use a stronger weapon that WAR can? Does anyone else find this redundant?! I swear SE you do so much right but then at the same time you drop the ball. SE you know how to make good games, what's up?

With 2.0 around the corner its getting to the point where people are playing only on the promise that 2.0 will bring sunshine and rainbows. At times I go pretty bananas at this 2.0 dream...only to see patches leading up to 2.0 going in directions I am not fond of. I fear that my MMO days might be coming to an end and if 2.0 doesn't deliver I won't be the only one wiping the dust off the old bat and glove.