Why not abolish the Class system entirely in favor of Jobs? [@ Devs]

[syntaxlies]

There are 8 known classes now, if each class got 2 jobs then that would make 16 jobs. At that rate it seems a focus on quantity instead of quality would be a problem. I'd rather jobs come from classes that had the job in mind and not add a job to a class as an after thought, that is all.

[Skies]

There are 8 known classes now, if each class got 2 jobs then that would make 16 jobs. At that rate it seems a focus on quantity instead of quality would be a problem. I'd rather jobs come from classes that had the job in mind and not add a job to a class as an after thought, that is all.

Personally i'd rather they build a class so that it can have two jobs. This way the base class is a flexible thing capable of moving between two different roles as needed whereas the job specializes it in one role.

Sometimes, you need your prime DD to trip over to Tank because something happened (I still remember that Nael fight when our Paladin went down, I was Dragoon, top scoring in DPS there, I got all hate. I seamlessly transitioned into tank role, dropped all of my mitigation skills (the pgl dodge one, dread spikes, used an Elixir, moved about to dodge a couple of moves) and held the fight long enough for them to finish the first phase (if the fight DID take like, 30s longer i'd have died and we wiped, but...). If it was possible for CLASSES to do that as part of the design and then Jobs to over-specialize to avoid that but increase power it'd be just great.

[Shadow_Sama]

There are 8 known classes now, if each class got 2 jobs then that would make 16 jobs. At that rate it seems a focus on quantity instead of quality would be a problem. I'd rather jobs come from classes that had the job in mind and not add a job to a class as an after thought, that is all.

^This, a thousand times this.