Quote Originally Posted by Lienn View Post
Mind in posting the link where they "clearified" it? Because by what i know there is no official confirmation regarding this.

Ppl is assuming THM will be BLM because CON got raises...but CON actually has the base of all color mages. Its much easier THM coming as DRK and CON as BLM in this first batch than THM coming as BLM...after all WHM is not needed right now...in the current game content, you can have CON (without job) dealing with healing role perfectly and BLM (with job) focusing on magic DD.
They have not confirmed what the current classes will advance to, only the Job names themselves.
The rest is just a likely guess.

I do see what you mean by not needing a WHM because CON already is.
But I do not believe SE is adding Jobs out of a "need".
The way I understand it is that these jobs will just specialize the current classes for party play or end game content. So a WHM may just be a CON with faster cures, that cost less mp and heal for more. And their buffs may be stronger and last longer. Hopefully they'll get a bit more than what I'm just thinking up, but overall I don't see anything revolutionary for the upcoming Jobs.