This topic is starting to pop up a lot lately, even in interviews done by Yoshi. We all know the classes go back to 1.0 and are heavily involved in the lore. (more so in 1.0) People keep talking about how they should get rid of the classes and only have jobs, I'm curious why? I get that for jobs like Summoner and Scholar sharing a base class isn't very good, also once you get to level 30 you never use classes again. I still enjoy the classes I think they make a nice starting point.

Before Heavensward was released we all speculated and tried to figure out what the next set of classes and jobs would be. Then we were hit with the bombshell, no more classes and the new jobs would start at level 30...... Now with Stormblood more jobs with no classes and starting at level 50!(possibly, most likely....)

Now there is talks to remove classes completely. How would this work? How will this affect the lore already established? Is this honestly needed? I get people don't like leveling and think classes are boring but you gotta start somewhere in a game. I remember in 1.0 the class guilds were much more important, we even had a token called guild marks which allowed us to buy abilities and other things for our classes. Its a shame we don't have more involvement with the classes maybe if we did there wouldn't be as much hate for them.

Im just curious how others feel about this drastic change?