Please do not lock Jobs to the Weapon Class that unlocks them.

[SuzakuCMX]

Mystic is a class, and we already know that BLM is one of the jobs planned.

[Preypacer]

I still stick by my thoughts that the new jobs may have exclusive weapons for them and retain use of items that the class that was required to obtain them is. We are still not sure how Jobs will be obtained for certain but I'll just repost what I said earlier.

Yeah but as an extension I doubt they will be able to use anything other than the class that it branches from weapon. Unless they make specific gear for the new jobs as well. Who knows! Maybe they will use the class's equipment + new job specific junk.

Lets say Marauder becomes.

Dark-knight
Or
Warior

Both jobs can use the Great axes, but Dark knights can also use Scyths, and Wariors can use Great swords.

We don't have enough information to go on, so I doubt that "Jobs" will span the entire class system but who knows for sure?

Yeah I was thinking along those lines as well. Take Samurai... Samurai use GK as their "defining weapon", but they can also use pole-arms. A sword and polearm as its root weapons, so I can see GLD and LNC being the jobs you can use to unlock SAM, which then opens up use of GK and, perhaps, other weapon types (throwing, etc).

'course, it could be that any class leveled to the required level can unlock the jobs (like in XI).

[Preypacer]

that isn't even the issue..... it is people complaining classes didn't feel different. (still not an issue, but caved anyway) They are not getting ride of the current system just adding to it. And it is only boring if ppl start cookie cutting. (which will prob happen. And i'd prob quit if it does.)

Cookie cutting is going to happen no matter what SE does or doesn't do. That's a player-base thing, not a developer thing.

[Preypacer]

"Gladiator Unlocks the quest for Paladin and once you unlock it you can only equip the Paladin Job as a Gladiator."

IE Jobs are locked to the weapon that unlocked them for their quest.

AS far as Levels go for jobs. I'd like to see them have Job Levels where each time you do a party event you get job points for your currently equipped job that lets you raise it up from Job Level 1 to Job level 10 and each job level unlocks a job specific skill or job trait.

Something akin to the Merit Point system in XI (you may have been asked this already, I'm just reading your post :-p).

[Engineer]

Mystic is a class, and we already know that BLM is one of the jobs planned.

Hmmmm. ya its speculation, but what job can thm be?

I hope they release the missing classes for 1.19

[SuzakuCMX]

Hmmmm. ya its speculation, but what job can thm be?

I hope they release the missing classes for 1.19

It's a bit obvious at this point that CON will be WHM.

That leaves BLM for THM. Or maybe they'll add a 3rd DoM class and make THM a Green Mage.

[Gramul]

Or maybe they'll add a 3rd DoM class and make THM a Green Mage.

Actually that might fix a lot of issues the CON have right now. Make a new class with all the classic elemental nuking spells and that allows for peole to take up the nuke class they want while allowing Square to move CON into a more spesific healer class.

[Malakhim]

Actually that might fix a lot of issues the CON have right now. Make a new class with all the classic elemental nuking spells and that allows for peole to take up the nuke class they want while allowing Square to move CON into a more spesific healer class.

If they introduce another mage class other than arcanist and mystic, they should probably give that one the healing and WHM if not to thaumaturge. Conjurer has always sounded black magey to me personally.

[SuzakuCMX]

If they introduce another mage class other than arcanist and mystic, they should probably give that one the healing and WHM if not to thaumaturge. Conjurer has always sounded black magey to me personally.

Personally I hope if they do unlock WHM, it just means they get a bonus to healing spells somehow, and if THM unlocks BLM, it means they get a bonus to all the different nukes between the DoM classes.

[Cairdeas]

If they are going to remove all the elementals from Conjurer and just remake the class they might as well have just renamed them to the classic jobs as well. That is a retarded change.



Also, I doubt "Samurai" is going to be the name of the Weapon Class. It'll be something like Wanderer, Ronin, Bushido, Parivr, Vagrant, etc.

Samurai would be the job it unlocks.