Save the Armory system

[Konachibi]

It's still never really been stated that jobs will be completely locked to certain stuff. Yes they'll be locked with certain types of armour or weaponry, but that's not really any different to what it is at the moment anyways, you can't be an archer with a sword, because that makes you a Gladiator.

As for skills, I doubt they'll prevent players from adding skills that aren't relevant to a job/role, so you'll probably still be able to equip Fire II if you're a Paladin or Cure II if you're a Thief. You're still as customisable as you were before, but your role in battle has a more defined purpose. Jobs will probably just add extra mechanics ontop of what we already have as classes, so for instance a Thief will gain poisoned weapons, DoT's or (dare I say it) combo points. you're still essentially a Pugilist, or whatever a Thief is the class defined job of, but with pink frills and extra bling.

[Xmbei]

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

[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

[Arcell]

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

Well 1 job to 1 class (for now). That doesn't mean that jobs can't get their own weapon type for use while the job is equipped, just saying. We don't know enough details yet. I mean how would you weapon lock the jobs that come from multiple classes (as was stated in the famitsu interview not too long ago)? The potential is there, the information given hasn't explicitly stated that each job is locked to the weapon of the class it comes from.

[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.

[User201109011315]

Are you sure? Because you posted this on the Japanese boards and they completely ignored you. Also I could have sworn you made an English thread too, but it was deleted by the mods.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...81%95%E3%81%84

I was just joking. I can't find my old threads even using google's 'cache' operator so I am assuming they are lost to cyberspace. So for all intents and purposes I never posted this.

[Arcell]

I was just joking. I can't find my old threads even using google's 'cache' operator so I am assuming they are lost to cyberspace. So for all intents and purposes I never posted this.

But you did post it, it's right there. Just because you don't acknowledge it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

[User201109011315]

But you did post it, it's right there. Just because you don't acknowledge it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Okay, but do you have a point?

[Konachibi]

*Open menu > click 'Job' option > Click 'Thief' > Click 'Apply Job' > Character becomes job with weapon variation availability (Sword/Dagger/Axe with favor of: Gla, Pld, Thf) > Win *

[Arcell]

Okay, but do you have a point?

Well my on-topic point is above, I just felt inclined to post that because saying that something never happened because you can't see it anymore is absurd.