Quote Originally Posted by Konachibi View Post
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.