So Yoshi-P just confirmed jobs won't get a big rework in 8.0.

[Nipaaah]

"Players who like the current job system can "feel at ease" about the 8.0 changes: "nothing is going to change for their experience"

https://www.pcgamesn.com/final-fanta...th-of-the-hero

"But we are trying to do something new on top of what we already have."

He also added this… but what? One extra pointless button after a finisher? We’ve had those since Shb. No thanks.

Jobs have already been homogenized and dumbed down to the point where everything feels and plays the same. That killed my passion for the game. Now he confirms we will have the same problem moving forward? Do not set your hopes too high for 8.0. You will just end up disappointed again. Same thing every year, expect Glare V as the new spell for WHM and nothing else. Please look forward to it!

[Sunhwapark]

"Players who like the current job system can "feel at ease" about the 8.0 changes: "nothing is going to change for their experience"

I guess I can say goodbye to my monk positionals. =_=

[Aelin_Ashryver]

This makes me think the current jobs will stay in some form and maybe we get specs like in other games, so you could choose between two versions of each job for instance? It could be interesting to see the jobs get specialisations to choose between different flavours of gameplay.

[Daralii]

This makes me think the current jobs will stay in some form and maybe we get specs like in other games, so you could choose between two versions of each job for instance? It could be interesting to see the jobs get specialisations to choose between different flavours of gameplay.

He said that they were entertaining ideas like talent trees and specializations because he thinks that 100 is a good point to stop increasing the level cap, but don't actually get your hopes up for anything like that.

[hydralus]

This makes me think the current jobs will stay in some form and maybe we get specs like in other games, so you could choose between two versions of each job for instance? It could be interesting to see the jobs get specialisations to choose between different flavours of gameplay.

Can't wait to run roulettes with a healer who spec'd into healing, so they can overheal by 300% instead of 200%.

[Sunhwapark]

so you could choose between two versions of each job for instance?

It sounds like old AST.

[Seraph_Variel]

It sounds like old AST.

Never forget Nocturnal sect, the thing i used to casually run when I healed back in ShB. Shouldn't have been removed.

[Raikai]

Never forget Nocturnal sect, the thing i used to casually run when I healed back in ShB. Shouldn't have been removed.

Especially because it was removed for nothing.

In the end the healer sub-division they made ended not mattering a lot, especially seeing so much overlap between the healing tools and many comps excelling in SGE+SCH.

[Rithy255]

This makes me think the current jobs will stay in some form and maybe we get specs like in other games, so you could choose between two versions of each job for instance? It could be interesting to see the jobs get specialisations to choose between different flavours of gameplay.

I think having like three versions of each job would make things interesting, though I wonder how this would be Implemented. I personally would like different ways to play jobs, I don't really care about "Meta" or illusion of choice, because I rather have that choice even if it's not the meta, some people may see it that way that something needs to be meta or anything else is a incorrect choice, I'd disagree I play for fun personally.

Some Jobs like Red Mage & Paladin could even play into a Healer spec, Healers like white mage could have a "stone/areo" DPS spec, or we could even have something like a Samurai tank (which has even been done in trust dungeons).

Though they would need to fix the baseline problems with Healer and Tank, they'd also need to fix these roles in content, although having scaling content like they've said could actually mean in more "midcore" content healers get to heal ect.

[SushiDog]

I think having like three versions of each job would make things interesting, though I wonder how this would be Implemented. I personally would like different ways to play jobs, I don't really care about "Meta" or illusion of choice, because I rather have that choice even if it's not the meta, some people may see it that way that something needs to be meta or anything else is a incorrect choice, I'd disagree I play for fun personally.

The idea is good but Square could never meaningfully balance it to the degree that the community at large would accept it. Square has struggled to balance three different healers and three different tanks, let alone fourth, let alone the DPS. This led to extremes such as HW nearly perma-banning PLD from PF and SB heavily excluding WHM/MNK. How could we possibly expect things to be different with 3x the job diversity? The community would never mesh well with it.