Save the Armory system

[Konachibi]

Actually this has been confirmed in a Dev post about 2-3 months ago stating 1-job to 1-class => to 1-weapon and that skills will be very specific on what you can equip while in a Job role

Aww, so people can't make a tanky DD healer that can solo every NM in the game anymore? What a shame. :3

[Charismatic]

Aww, so people can't make a tanky DD healer that can solo every NM in the game anymore? What a shame. :3

Funny you say that considering THM was previously able to solo all sorts of NMs while hardly using abilities from other classes. It's not the hybrid nature of the game that makes this possible, it's the design of the player abilities and the NMs we fight.
That's what needs to be tweaked rather than giving the player less freedom. However, giving the players less freedom makes it easier to design content that isn't so easy to clear so from a lazy dev's standpoint I can easily see how this would be the way to go!

I do like the system proposed by the OP but I also don't have much issue with what we're getting now either as long as in the future the classes can switch to multiple jobs.
Hopefully at the very least every class gets an offensive role, a defensive role and a support role. Like, how Gladiator is getting Paladin now, hopefully their next job would be something offense-oriented. But that's just what I picture now, maybe they'll somehow come up with something even better.

[Seikninkuru]

Aww, so people can't make a tanky DD healer that can solo every NM in the game anymore? What a shame. :3

Except that was never the result of anything other than broken abilities and was the result of staying within one class. So would you care to keep illustrating the fact you are either out of touch with the game or do not play it?

[Konachibi]

Except that was never the result of anything other than broken abilities and was the result of staying within one class. So would you care to keep illustrating the fact you are either out of touch with the game or do not play it?

A friend in my linkshell quite often takes on NM's by himself using Gladiator as his base class then mixing and matching a variety of spells and abilities from other classes to make himself nigh unkillable, at least for a duration of time before his MP slowly begins to simmer away, it's not a cheat, it's not an exploit, it's all within the games rules and boundaries. It's quite an amazing sight to behold and sometimes the fights can really drag on, but at the same time it's kind of shame that such a thing is do-able on your own instead of being a group activity, since NM's are sort of like 'world bosses'.

With the way jobs will more strongly dictate roles for classes, my friend won't be able to do that with new NM's, but he's gratefull for it because he'll enjoy the challenge of at least TRYING to solo one, or be happy of the fun we'll have taking one down as a group.