Quote Originally Posted by Pterois View Post
it is new and fresh... and simply why not? it makes perfect sense... how about swap it so that the crafting class needs to be lv.15??? that better?
Aside from the philosophical objection raised by Exstal, I suspect with many of these posts/posters, they simply don't understand how the job system works.

A job crystal does 2 things:
1. Stat boost.
2. Extra 5 abilities.

Keep in mind, the rest of your abilities are from your class, not your job. What exactly are you supposed to do with all those noncombat crafting abilities you unlock, and continue to unlock as you progress to 50? 5 abilities (well, only 1 ability when you unlock at 30) that can be used in combat wouldn't make for much of a DoW/M.

Even with a DoW/M base class, branching jobs leads to awkwardness... like SCH being very DPS heavy for a healer, but in this case the fairies help make up for being light on healing abilities. This problem is probably what lead Yoshi to say he's considering reworking the job system as a whole but as is... a DoH turning into a DoW simply wouldn't work.