Multiple Jobs from a Single Class (confirmed by Yoshi-P)?

[Psion]

Long as we get Scythes (one's that you know, we can fight with) or Greatswords I don't care where Drk comes from.

You will get swords. Just like firion in FFIV did. :P

[Elexia]

This was confirmed by Yoshi in 2011.

[Pendactyl]

I like the idea of multiple jobs from a single class. It makes class loyalty more interesting, and adds a lot of depth to the class itself. It also makes the odds of all of us seeing our favorite job implemented at some point a lot higher. We will most likely end up with far more jobs than we had in XI.

[Hyrist]

I'm not entirely sure Lancer Translates directly into Samurai. If they are going to create multiple jobs for one class, weaponry is going to become and issue for many of them.

A backstabbing thief fighting with fists?

Do Samurai REALLY want to fight with spears?

Dark Knights with 1h swords?

Then we get into the entanglement of multiple weapon types with non-corresponding moves.

If Samurai is a Lancer Job, and can equip a Katana, what about all the spear moves native to lancer?

So there's a few hurtles that need to be handled before they start the whole multiple jobs thing. They can implement it, but they're going to have to revamp the class system a bit first.

An idea is to create different combo trees with different class base weapons. Though having someone be called "Lancer" while wielding a Katana might be interesting.

[Zell]

I'm guessing there's going to be more classes added before they go the multiple jobs per class route. I'm pretty sure we'll see, 2 classes and corresponding 2 jobs added in 2.0, maybe even two more gathering and crafting classes.

My only concern is, if we hve 10 classes, and they decided they want to add more jobs, are they going to add 10 right away. If they don't, people will complain that someone who only has a GLD has access to two jobs, whereas someone who only has a Pug has access to monk.

This may be a little trick to handle....

[Pendactyl]

I don't think a THF using H2H is a big deal. Other FF games had THF characters that didn't use a dagger. Heck, I don't even mind SAM being from Lancer. I loved using a spear on SAM for farming and such in FFXI.

[Kowen]

Dark Knights with 1h swords?

For this, they just need to add greatswords as a 2-handed Gladiator weapon. Maybe have it so that GLA can use either 1 or 2-handed, but PLD and DRK are restricted to one.

But I definitely agree with the others, somehow giving Lancer access to katanas would be a big stretch lore-wise.

[Psion]

I don't think a THF using H2H is a big deal. Other FF games had THF characters that didn't use a dagger. Heck, I don't even mind SAM being from Lancer. I loved using a spear on SAM for farming and such in FFXI.

gtfo, leave h2h for the pups! >

let some other class that uses daggers be the base for thf or something. <.<

[Hulan]

Actually, as weird as it is, THF from GLA isn't that big of a stretch, lore wise. Since GLA already has access to daggers, that may be the route they take for THF (WAR with PGL and LNC subclasses).

[Pendactyl]

People didn't see BRD coming from ARC either at first. I actually like them making combos like that work.