Why do we have classes AND jobs again?

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Then the number of abilities on class vs job would be a different number and people would get upset about that. I understand what you're saying though.

I don't see a problem with different numbers of abilities though. In fact, that was a flaw I see in the current balancing - the armoury system should have more abilities to use rather than the job system. Jobs are specialised - they aren't meant to have as many access to as many abilities as classes. Classes should therefore have more abilities to use, so that feature is something I'm actually for, having classes have a higher number of abilities and skills.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems some of you aren't willing to step out of the comfort zone of using jobs to trying out using classes more often. Is it the community mentality of being scared of the unknown which is ultimately doing this? Much like how no-one is willing to experiment outside of cookie-cutter set ups for content, even if they may be better. (this isn't directed at you, Imoen, but the general community)