Job and Subjob system instead of classes?

[Seif]

I'm afraid it's too late for this game to have such FF jobs as the core of the game.

I hope they've only just begun to balance classes because to me they all still feel the same.
Class uniqueness won't be achievable by just switching around skills and tweaking stats. Give us different gameplay depending on the job we use.

For example let knights and BLMs combine their skills like I Steiner and Vivi did. Give the gun class long range sniper gameplay with the goal on killing the mob before it gets too close rather than having just another ARC class.

Make chocobo knights into a class where the stats of the chocobo are just as important as your own skills. Make a class similiar to PUP where skills are controlled through a different menu or a Summoner class where MP preservation is completely different and you get to control 2 characters at once.

Those are just few examples from XI and other FF titles how jobs have offered different gameplay not just different graphics. I'd hate for them to go through all this trouble and still every battle is attack the enemy--->wait until the end of battle and repeat.

[Gennosuke]

Solution: Go play FFXI. K Thx bi.

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I would like to see class - weapon binding dropped at some point. I suspect that, should they decide to drop classes to go ALL Job... they will wait a few months to a year in order to lessen the impact of suddenly dropping everyone's max rank classes in order to restart... That or a way to pick Jobs to convert one's classes to.

This is my gut feeling regarding this too. It would be a big impact with people's efforts but then again, they are doing other drastic changes to the game and people did vote for this. They could always compensate in many ways. If they do end up taking this path, i suspect it will take a while too and in that case I would hope sooner than later, no more wasted time needed with this game taking more damaging hits.