Personally I disliked how players handled ffxi's job system.

if you didn't /nin as a dd you failed
if you didn't sub /whm on early mage levels you failed
if you meleed as a red mage you failed

So infact ffxi was about as broken. Since most ppl didn't let other choose sub jobs they felt benifited them in how they played.

Aka cookie cutting is a broken tired system. And not something I want.

If I want to have a true red mage character, as in a magic casting fencer, I should beable to. And hope the new system they do make allows for this.

Red mage was my fav class when I first started. I was really good at this class when I meleed. I kept up needed buffs and debuffs. My skills were nearlly all capped nearly 100% of the time. Oh and red mages can ware medium metal armor. Not just cloth.

Anything but a cookie cutting system is what is needed. Not of ppl hated the cookie cutter mind set, they just went along with it just to get to cap.