How can they add more classes and make them unique and have their own flavor?

[Keiko_Kumiko]

I remember I read somewhere that Yoshi P said that they will add more jobs instead of giving jobs more specializations (IE DPS Paladin, Heal Paladin).

Dancer I can understand being different because I heard it is a melee healer(?)

How can they make the new jobs unique enough to make them not be copy and pastes/combination of the other jobs we have now?

I think that it's easy to create more different classes and jobs, but to make each of them more unique, SE/Yoshi really need to instate elemental and attack properties.

Fire monsters weak against water/ice, absorbs fire attacks, ice monsters weak against fire, absorbs ice attacks, hard scaled monsters impervious against slash attacks, flying monsters weak against shoot attacks, etc.

The first time when I played this game, I was surprised that elemental/attack properties was missing, because in my opinion THAT is really what makes every class/job, and frankly, the entire game unique. Without it, there is really no point in which class/job you choose, because every kind of attack will always result in the same outcome.

[LadyVal]

*snip*

They used to have an elemental wheel just like you described, but Yoshi did away with it, stating it was "too complicated for players new to MMOs."

So, no more elemental weakness or strength, hence why WHM and BLM cast each half of the elemental wheel. Also, even if they instate that they would have to be careful with elemental absorption because if you do a 4-man dungeon, and daily roulette gives you two BLM, and the boss absorbs fire... someone is getting kicked, raged at, harassed, or belittled because of game design oversights.