Please make gigs/spears available again to Fishers as a offhand equipment, and then allow Disciples of the Land to engage in combat so that they can defend themselves (axe, pickaxe, gig). Also allow them to cross-class actions from DoW and DoM. While they won't have the same combat potency as a DoW or DoM class, at least they can survive in hostile territory if something happens to Stealth.

This will also have the byproduct of boosting the market for lower-tier materia from field gatherers who would like to augment their gear to give them extra combat capability above their gathering stats.