Why not abolish the Class system entirely in favor of Jobs? [@ Devs]

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That sounds feasible. My only thing would be how would a skill be designed such that it's made for solo but is acceptable for loss when on a job (party play I suppose)? Like, as it is now If were to lose an incredibly powerful WS on my class when I switched to job, I'd just be annoyed or feel stifled. If they made a job equivalent of the skill I lost, that'd be pointless.

Basically to me the problem would then become: what new skills do they add for both and how would they add them with still being redundant or making one or the other somewhat lamed...definitely don't remove anything that would combo. Oh gosh.
I realize they could make any number of random skills, but this is where that pure speculation without seeing what we've got comes in.

To me solo skills would be about self preservation and job skills would be about damage for dd, tanking for tank ect. The reason you wouldnt use a class in party would be, no traits so a lot of your abilitys would be nerfed and a mager loss of damage output