Job and Subjob system instead of classes?

[AmyRae]

Yet again, my question as posted before, why not make the current classes these jobs instead of having 2 different modes?

The problem is it would be outrageous (to some if not most) to have all their year-long efforts placed in the current "build-your-own-class" system wiped out forever and replaced with a rigid, role-specific class/job system (that most people want) in its place. If the game were being redeveloped without being online, and a total wipe was possible, maybe it wouldn't need this convoluted two-tiered approach. Alas, this is the hand we are dealt with.

And so, we continue with an armory class system that will take a back seat to (and co-exist with) a new well-defined-role job system. The neat trick will be in making the two somehow work together so they don't seem completely at odds with each other, but I'm not sure how that will be accomplished.