Well thing s you hadnt seen thaumture tnk and glad DD, you saw a tanking magic user, and a DDing sword/shield user.Or even more a tanking ddisciple of Maging , and sword using disciple of War DDing. the classes are more like weapon skills. and role is what we want to do with them. I agree the system needs to be tweaked. there are lots of good ideas ( a roles, equipable in same way as classes, so for example if you equipp class maruder, and role tank, you will be tanking axe user, and so on) class bonuses to certain roles ( magic clases would have 20% bonus to magic efficiency, etc) or tying classic jbs to clothing, so like you equip certain armor and certain weapon to make combo, or many other ideas. But point is this is FFXIV not FFXI-2. Current system is amazing step forward to ditch the boring old DnD class chains. However there is a big group of people who never wereable to build something new with lego, all they could do was build things that were in the set manual. For those people having this system is crtainly confusing and overhelming. So there is cure: Presets. Either user defined, and predefined.