Is 5 Job Abilities enough (Before level cap increase)?

[Alhanelem]

Did you even read his post? He talks about how some jobs are hardly even distinguishable from their class because the job skills don't do anything to discern them.

Yes, I read his post, but all that illustrates is that existing abilities could do with some adjustments / changes to heighten their impact.

Did YOU read the topic title?

Is 5 Job Abilities enough (Before level cap increase)?

I answered the question. It wasn't deserving of the tone of your response. Yes, the number of abilities is enough. The effects are what matter and in some cases, need to be changed.

The other problem here is the OP's vision of the job system vs. what the actual vision is. It was more or less designed to be what the OP apparently doesn't want it to be. The Jobs do not radically transform the classes and they're not supposed to. The Job abilities are supposed to focus the classes more strongly into the roles they were built for. For the most part, they do that, though there are certain abiltiies that don't facilitate that goal (a couple BLM abilities in particular come to mind).

No it is not, SCH can do the exact same things as SMN minus the pet and fester. It would have been better to have class abilities from 1-30 be the same, and then from 30-50 be all job abilities, that way you get a unique set of at least 10 or more abilities for each job, making each feel different from their counterpart.

Hmm.... lets see. All of SCH's job abilities are cures/supportive abiltiies. All of SMN's abilities are DPS focused. Totally the exact same thing.

Two different jobs based on the same class, and they play completely differently. SCH is not as stong as a DPS as SMN is, and SMN certianly isn't anywhere near the healing capability of SCH. Your point has no merit.

Your proposal would do little other than make the classes irrelevant.