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

[Shiyo]

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.

I feel SMN is a really badly done class when it comes to it's abilities from the SMN class. I mean it gets rouse v2.0 as one of it's skills, really SE? Enkindle is also incredibly boring and the AOE bind is essentially useless...

I also have more DOT's than a SMN does as SCH, and I think cleric stance DOT's tick harder than SMN DOT's unless they raging strikes them. All you get from being a SMN over a SCH is basically fester and contagion, and arcanist gets contagion.

I think they really messed up a LOT of jobs, and only giving jobs 5 skills over classes wasn't a good decision, but it was an even worse decision to make jobs 100% required and classes 100% utterly useless in every party situation at end game.