Elementalist => Red Mage/Geomancer Job idea

[MartaDemireux]

That could be remedied with support spells having high MP costs with a stance up (it would need about a minute or two cooldown to prevent liberal switching). Stoneskin is already about 400mp, right? Stance bumps it up to say 600. Instead of a direct penalty for using it (like Ballad has) you're now out a good chunk of MP which in turn lowers your DPS (about 4 casts of a Stone/Stone II for one Stoneskin). If you want to save MP you'd have to take off the stance. That's well and good but now your DPS is lowered significantly due to whatever mechanic the stance gives being nullified. You also still have terrible MND and are INT based meaning your heals still perform poorly. Now you're a poor DPS and healer in exchange for a Stoneskin/Esuna bot. Still a form of support but then you face DPS checks or resources becoming strained. Support would have to be strategic to make sure you're still able to perform your primary role as DPS and your secondary role as support.

As for seeing a large number of abilities getting changes the same issue would be present with any of the other classes getting another job. MRD/GLA would need all their enmity taken off and PGL/LNC/ARC would need their mechanics and combos altered, THM is pretty specialized, CNJ has all the support. We already know that Yoshi has said that given a situation where they were to add a DPS job to GLA they could and would make significant changes to their existing abilities to remove all the enmity. I know you are/were of the opinion that no current class will get a 2nd job but I'm of the opposite opinion.