Why did SE decide to make the three new classes not require base classes?

[Genz]

Is the game being "dumbed-down" a bit?

To be more accurate, the armoury system was dumbed down back in version 1.20-1.21. It just took the devs 2 years to fully understand their own doing and remove what had become useless.

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Now they better remove classes for every job, to keep things simple. Imagine describing the game system to a new player :
"There are 9 classes, and you get a job when they reach lvl 30, which is essentially the same as the class for most of them, and there is one class which gives two jobs, and you also have 3 jobs that start right at level 1 without class."
... when we could just have :
"There are 13 jobs."

[Prototype909]

To be more accurate, the armoury system was dumbed down back in version 1.20-1.21. It just took the devs 2 years to fully understand their own doing and remove what had become useless.

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Now they better remove classes for every job, to keep things simple. Imagine describing the game system to a new player :
"There are 9 classes, and you get a job when they reach lvl 30, which is essentially the same as the class for most of them, and there is one class which gives two jobs, and you also have 3 jobs that start right at level 1 without class."
... when we could just have :
"There are 13 jobs."

The problem is with the way the plot/soul crystal stuff is explained I don't really see this happening - it'd be more work to rewrite those parts of the story to make sense than it would be to just leave it. They've already dug themselves into a hole and now they'll have to lay in it.

[Valmar]

To be more accurate, the armoury system was dumbed down back in version 1.20-1.21. It just took the devs 2 years to fully understand their own doing and remove what had become useless.

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Now they better remove classes for every job, to keep things simple. Imagine describing the game system to a new player :
"There are 9 classes, and you get a job when they reach lvl 30, which is essentially the same as the class for most of them, and there is one class which gives two jobs, and you also have 3 jobs that start right at level 1 without class."
... when we could just have :
"There are 13 jobs."

More that Likely the Classes will be, like some other people have stated in this thread, the Starting Classes, and respectivly Starting Jobs.

As the betting man that I am, I have a strong feeling that the New Jobs that don't have Base Classes (Lets call them Advanced Jobs) will not start at Level one, and infact will start at level 30 or maybe even Higher, and will require you to have atleast one Base Class leveled to 30 to unlock it.

[Kuwagami]

More that Likely the Classes will be, like some other people have stated in this thread, the Starting Classes, and respectivly Starting Jobs.

As the betting man that I am, I have a strong feeling that the New Jobs that don't have Base Classes (Lets call them Advanced Jobs) will not start at Level one, and infact will start at level 30 or maybe even Higher, and will require you to have atleast one Base Class leveled to 30 to unlock it.

no. Devs stated you'll be able to start fresh as a DRK when expansion comes.

[Valmar]

no. Devs stated you'll be able to start fresh as a DRK when expansion comes.

So without having any classes leveled, IE; a brand new player, first day in the game, can pick Drk from Character Selection? what about MCH or AST?

[Kuwagami]

So without having any classes leveled, IE; a brand new player, first day in the game, can pick Drk from Character Selection? what about MCH or AST?

no words on them but I would assume they'll be the same. and yes

[QiLymePye]

no words on them but I would assume they'll be the same. and yes

I wonder if they are gonna make it like rogue, where you had to have at least 1 class at lvl 10 before you could select rogue.