Quote Originally Posted by Shougun View Post
Not broken XD its just crippled.

I say crippled because lets imagine SE wants to add a samurai job. They have to add the class
Add a beast master job? they have to add the class
Add a Red Mage? They have to add the class.

Because each job doesn't come with its own fully developed set (only comes with 5 abilities) you HAVE to make a class for each job you introduce. Then you run into overflowing the class system because you've made a class for every job and now there are 20 classes and 20 jobs and if you went GLD you have like 500 abilities to choose from that you'd be an awkward mess. At that point adding a new job you have to so insanely balance the class because you already have 19 other classes that can use whatever you introduce. And one of those combinations is going to be game breaking so you spend forever trying to add in one simple class because you made balancing insane.

Rather then that just limit the number of classes and introduce job quests that unlock advance jobs. Or sometimes new basic jobs.

If you try to double up a class (gld -> pld / drk) you run into issues where DRK is DD but is now tanky and cant ever become what he should become.

And you may even have to introduce exclusion rules where the job sphere unlocks new weapons.
But we still don't really know everything about what's required for the new jobs yet, right? What if the jobs require classes we already have? You know, like what if to be a blue mage you have to become lancer and thaumaturge, or something like that? It might not be as stuffed full of abilities as you think it will. Also, there could always be a limit on what abilities are allowed from job to job. If some abilities are not even available, then that definately limits the large pool of abilities to choose from, getting rid of the crowded abilities problem altogether.

I think your ability does have it's merits, and you have some points wehen it comes to having to deal with what abilities for what job. But i don't think SE will let a job become broken. I could be wrong, but I dont think so.