Making Base classes Playable?

[Jokubas]

At the very least, I would like jobs other than just Arcanist to have a branch. Some of them are quite obvious.

Conjurer's quests feel like Geomancer until it suddenly just becomes White Mage. Geomancer would be a nice Final Fantasy staple to have in FFXIV.

Archer is forced to become something more conceptually specialized, despite a straightforward archer being a great idea that has existed in FF before as Ranger.

Having Marauder branch into the current Tank Warrior as well as Damage Berserker (a popular FF job) would make a lot of sense as well.

Maybe something else would be a more appropriate alternative to Gladiator, but I'd love to see a Damage alternative to Paladin (Knight?), with classic FF abilities like Shock.

[Commander_Justitia]

At the very least, I would like jobs other than just Arcanist to have a branch.

In some of the older live letter they talked about this. TlDr - They hate the idea of it. Arcanist evolving into 2 jobs gave them major headaches apparently.

There was a time when lvl50 marauder were viable, in PvP they were able to get a high burst off with crossskill buffs.

Paladin is called Knight in Japanese - so idk... I am interested what they choose as next tank job if they ever release another one with next addon maybe.

What the game might need is talent trees like WoW has, so Paladin being able to be healer, damage dealer or tank, but this would be a major change to the whole combat system, which they are probably afraid of.