Heavensward jobs! yay...no base class? wth..

[Risvertasashi]

I know SE has mentioned that they would like to move away from the class > job concept for future jobs. I would like to think that, A)this is because it seems like we already have most classes. They are essentially the base roles one would find in just about any game. B) They might be moving to a job 1 + job 2 = new job format. Which seems interesting.

Oh man, combining jobs would be pretty awesome. But I don't think it will happen; the direction they're going for the game is strongly typed jobs/roles.

But in FF, the job system usually fills the role of class systems in other games. From what they've said... What I took from it is just that the base classes just hadn't turned out to be as good as an idea as they thought. That doesn't preclude alternative systems in the future, but they haven't shared any info if they're going to do anything more than divorce themselves from classes.

But I'm just happy I'll get to play the new Jobs from level 1.

[Deathscythe343]

But I'm just happy I'll get to play the new Jobs from level 1.

Not so sure this would happen like that. I have to wonder if the new jobs would start out much higher than that.

[QiLymePye]

I'm actually glad they are getting away from classes. I think it might be a way to have more variety in gameplay. I always felt that the jobs should be more unique, if you are a PLD, you shouldn't have not one skill thats similar to MRD. I wanna play a job because its unique. If i pick NIN, it should'nt fight the same as ROG. And if I have ROG, NIN shouldn't be able to mug and steal. It takes away from the uniqueness of the job. I felt like ROG should have been a job on its own. CNJ should have been a job on its own, different from WHM. Maybe now, we can have more uniqueness and balance in the game. Hopefully DRK will play different than PLD and MRD, etc.