Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
I suspect they'll still have a base Class, just not in the current sense. You would, for example, need Lv30 Gladiator to unlock Dark Knight, but Dark Knight is Lv1 and has its own set of "base" moves, instead of piggybacking off Gladiator like Paladin.
Yoshi-P has stated that the majority of players will be able to play as the new jobs from launch day. As to what the requires are exactly we do not know, but we can speculate that there will be a main story completion requirement, more so than a job or class requirement.

Quote Originally Posted by DracotheDragon View Post
i feel like i am missing something why is there all a sudden talk f a gun blade class? was something officially hinted by SE (and i mean recently, the CID and nero scene from ST dose not count for this o3o, or are people guessing wildly due to 4.0 most likely us attacking garlamald)
It has been stated (I can't find the exact interview) by Yoshi-P that there will be no surprise jobs.