Quote Originally Posted by Rumpelstiltzkin View Post
but keeping the class/job system was one of the biggest mistakes.
In retrospect it is, but they clearly had ideas for it that ended up getting scrapped in the long haul as shown by the SMN/SCH split and the way WAR and PLD are set up.
It's a shame, but if I had a penny for every idea from an MMO that seemed like a cool idea at the time but ended up hurting the game in the long run, I'd never need to worry about paying for a sub on any game I play ever again.