Hi Fusionx,

Great interview with Yoshida-san. Thanks for the link!

2 exciting tidbits from the interview for me were:

Yoshida: The methods of upgrading your class and the methods of upgrading your jobs will follow different paths. We plan to make it so guild marks do not exert a direct affect on jobs. For jobs, we plan on upgrading them via quests known as specialized trials.
I hope we get quite a few challenging, engaging "specialized trials" for our Jobs. Like earning a unique Ability or Weaponskill each time, getting stronger, etc. This would be fantastic content (instead of just grinding a Job and automatically learning the Abilities / WS / Spells).

Yoshida: Beginning with patch 1.18 the amount of content being introduced will steadily increase and the realm of Eorzea will begin seeing drastic changes. The results of the New Year survey as well as the mysterious prophecy will also begin to manifest, so please look forward to it!
Definitely exciting news! Hopefully we have some surprises not announced yet for 1.18, 1.19 and it sounds like 1.19 is going to come out a lot sooner than our delay between 1.17 and 1.18.