Post expansion ideas.

[Vaer]

I think their answer would be "too many resources required." You would have to make animations and have them fit all those sub classes and races, 22 new limit breaks. You might as well make a bunch of new jobs or races at that point.

I mean look at the egi glamour, it took them forever to release and the animations are mostly unchanged.

[Settiesama]

Can see it now actually, SE find this idea, like it... And Cloud soul crystal £25/$31

[Vorx]

Actually Settiesama i wouldn't be that surprised either.
And Vaer that was kinda the whole plan for this, add more classes and styles. Give players complete freedom and use the styles they prefer. I myself would love to use a Tidus style, the acrobatic moves, the quick attacks, be a lot of fun. But i get where your coming from, still one can dream i guess.

[Legion88]

I'm against another level of job upgrades, just cause it is my opinion and it would render normal jobs useless.
I'm against the implemention of this "heros", like in your list for several reasons.
1.: Most of your characters are from FF's without a job system. In this FF's the characters are personifications of jobs, like Kain is the DRG from FFIV and others are personifications of a job with a sub job or a mix of jobs, like Yuna is a WHM SMN mix.
2.: This would probably work with the armoury system, where the mainhand defines the base abilities and a job is mostly just a upgrade, but...they are planing to merge classes and jobs into one. So you are defined by your soul crystal with its specific mainhand, perhaps we are getting the option to change mainhands as we like to play (skilltrees dependent on mainhand?) sometime in the future.
3.: I would much more like to get jobs based on the characters, including the job mixes or jobs with influences from existing jobs.
4.: I wouldn't like to see FFXIV drift into an Dissidia way where characters from all FF's can be played, when we are a independant titel.

[Settiesama]

As another personal reason for despising this idea, I would not be able to stand more people pretending to be characters from other games, especially to that extent. My server annoys me enough as is with it's rp community (especially those pretending to be other characters and the lore breaking, half voidsent/princess etc. ones), but I would expect it to break out into dungeons with "(Xcloud'x Xstrifexx) Come on guys, let's Mosey!" For every pull made etc. Might be a little bitter, but yeah, I know I'm not the only person who gets annoyed with this kind of stuff. (And yes, I really wish they didn't give us glamour gear for those chars too)

As for the resources side, yes, they'd be better used for giving us actual jobs, ones that characters in FF usually follow anyway, even if they do sway slightly from the basics. You don't need to BE Tidus to do flips and all, Rdm has been shown to be a bit acrobatic, Nin is as well, and there are plenty of jobs to go that can add that in too.

[Vorx]

Legion88
Actually in a way i wish we'd get something like Dissidia, at least in Summoner stand point, even though its due to the lore the Spirit summoning are kinda lame. Be cool to have a style like Dissida's Yuna where you summon hlf of the actual Primal.
Everything else i can see where your coming from on.

Settiesama
True but this idea would allow players not really to be those characters as much as use skills from the past. You wouldn't in a sense be Tidus just have his skills to use.

[addz3]

Sorry Kathyn i was limited to 3000 characters. Basically by equipping the gem you would move and fight like that character, like with Tidus you would do all his jumping around and stuff and your LB would become one of his.

I think what would be better is if you gained a unique skill that that character used, animation wise. Like a skill could be Braver or Omnislash: ST damage 200 potency etc. Is this what you're saying? That would be very cool. Maybe it could related to a glamour system? But yeah, will prob never happen?

[addz3]

Legion88
Actually in a way i wish we'd get something like Dissidia, at least in Summoner stand point, even though its due to the lore the Spirit summoning are kinda lame. Be cool to have a style like Dissida's Yuna where you summon hlf of the actual Primal.
Everything else i can see where your coming from on.

Settiesama
True but this idea would allow players not really to be those characters as much as use skills from the past. You wouldn't in a sense be Tidus just have his skills to use.

Beat me to it... What they said lol

[Vorx]

I think what would be better is if you gained a unique skill that that character used, animation wise. Like a skill could be Braver or Omnislash: ST damage 200 potency etc. Is this what you're saying? That would be very cool. Maybe it could related to a glamour system? But yeah, will prob never happen?

In a way, the Gems would of been o unlock most if not all their skills. Much like how you attacked on Dissidia where you only used that character's skills. Not only would you get the Braver, but also all the others too by just wearing the gem.