Extend Classes into full Jobs?

[Deliciou5]

It is sad that SE was so worried that FFXIV:ARR wouldn't do so well....they tried to go out of their way to accommodate players that were already there. Therefore they didn't wipe everyone's character because they feared making people upset, which led to them keeping the same system for class/job.It also caused all those server issues when ARR launched since they did not plan on being a huge success.

It is no secret that the job/class system is extremely limiting, i just don't see classes playing that differently than they do now regardless of what jobs they introduce in the future.

If they add another job to whm...will it not be healer? If they add another job to maruader will it not just be the same basic abilities being used over and over again that MAR/warrior uses? Same with lancer, rogue, and basically any other class. Yeah jobs add some new stuff in but you end using the same combos and abilities from the base class more often than not.

That is why they chose to not add a base class to dark knight because they did not know how to add the class/job in without having to feel obligated expand upon it in the future by adding more jobs to it when it is probably in such a niche role to begin with.

[Bishop81]

That is why they chose to not add a base class to dark knight because they did not know how to add the class/job in without having to feel obligated expand upon it in the future by adding more jobs to it when it is probably in such a niche role to begin with.

I personally feel the whole class/job system is messy and inelegant - there is little consistency to it.

Yoshi-P doesn't even like the system and finds it cramps the adding of new Jobs - every new Job has been a new class as well ...

I hope they "fix up the system" sometime in the future.