Honestly though, FFXIV does stand out in the sea of MMOs. To me at least, FFXIV is one of the most unique MMOs I've ever played. When I play the game I don't think it feels like any other game and I like that. Now that's not to say that we shouldn't implement ideas from other games that are good however I think job/subjob is not one of those systems.

What we have right now gives too much freedom though I think job/subjob is too restrictive. As other people have been mentioning, a decent fix is just a bit more restriction on the current system. Add a bit more of a cross-class penalty either for the use of the skill or for the action point cost. Make some more skills restricted to classes.

The biggest thing we're missing though, as with the auto-attack discussion, is that we don't know what the new battle system is going to be. We simply don't know anything about it and that means we can't really have a tremendously meaningful discussion about it. Whatever it is though, I have faith in the new team and I'm sure they'll pull off something great. They've honestly not really disappointed me yet.