Why do we have classes AND jobs again?

[Imoen]

What they did wrong is the part where switching to a Job gives 5 job skills, while only removing other potential class skills. If they make more of the classes skills usable only by the job, while making more of another classes skills cross-classable we will have X class solos while X Job parties.


But, because they butchured all the classes of a lot of skills, they are going to need to add them back in before they do this. Such as Red Lotus blade, Circle slash, Etc.

Ya, I don't know it seems to me like this would just shove it back to what it was at launch where everybody just ends up cross classing the same things anyway. (Raise, stone skin, second wind etc....) Or maybe I didn't understand what you meant.

Maybe if we had 10 job abilities instead of 5, with no cross classing when on a job. Then while on class having the full 10 cross class... then maybe, just maybe there would be a reason for this overly complex set up. It just seems messy to me the whole thing and I see it causing problems sometime down the road.

**this assuming obviously that they keep things mostly how they were.