Quote Originally Posted by Konachibi View Post
As long as I can eventually dual-wield pistols, I'm happy.

Bring on the Gunner job!

Anyways, FFXI operated on a class to job basis kinda. You levelled white mage i think it was, then you could become a summoner or something else, there's no reason this won't operate the same way, and that classes will be a base with which to build on lots and lots of different jobs. This game is only 1 year old, there's still a loooong way to go and it's too early to be picking apart the first small step in it's expansion, and once SE reach the 1.21 mark and/or the PS3 version is released they'll begin to focus more on where the game is going, rather than trying to fix/build up what it currently has.

The only thing I thought strange is if Thief is actually a job. I always imaged Thief would be a class which would then expand to things like Ninja, Assassin etc. jobs, the same as Pugilists could build to Monks, Martial Artists etc jobs.
Its not really like ffxi, where you unlock a whole different job by hitting 30 and doing some quest, its like uh.... imagine in ffxi you level to 30, then you can choose a special version of the same class, which only has 1 subjob, but has a couple more skills available and acess to only one weapon. but in this case they would only have the starting 6 classes to choose from for everyone.