Possible removal of Classes

[Nixxe]

The best solution is really just to leave the existing classes in the game, even if they're just some archaic holdover at this point. There's really no value to reworking all of the pre-30 story stuff, to say nothing of the inevitable fiasco of trying to divorce SMN and SCH, just to tidy things up. Since they're obviously not interested in expanding on the class system, whatever, and just keep making new jobs with no base class.

[Zhamkyong]

The removal of classes it's likely not to happen.

The only thing i can think of they could remove it's the requeriment of a second class to level15 to be able to get the ARR Advanced job quests, as there is too much involved with the class system into the game to begin with. Lore, quests, npc... there is too much material in there to revamp it from scratch and leaving us only with jobs.

[Aniond]

Pick your job at level 1. Want to be a summoner. Their you go. No more acn + bkm = smn

[Reinha]

They could unify classes and jobs by imposing the same cross class limitations on both. For example (in the current system) only allow Arcanists to cross class a total of 5 skills from Archer and Thaumaturge, which is what Summoners do. Then once the job stone is obtained it is equipped automatically and permanently like in the case of AST/DRK/MCH, so that going back to being a class isn't possible. Once there is no difference in cross class skill limitations, there is no need to go back to classes and the transition is nothing but a change in the wording. Of course the unicorn quest should be made available to White Mages too. I quite like the class quests and I'm very opposed to removing content from the game, because it's both a waste of resources and makes the game smaller.

[MistakeNot]

Classes - Jobs - doesn't much matter what you call them, they are more or less the same thing. That being said I personally find the classes as implemented much more fun than the jobs: The guilds, the early quests, huntlogs. Those are currently only available for classes in the game, not for the jobs.
Should they be stupid enough to actually remove the classes without including all of the current class content in the jobs, then I would seriously have to consider leaving the game - that would be too big a change for no good reason.

[Zhamkyong]

Classes - Jobs - doesn't much matter what you call them.

It actually matters in the lore. When you first pop into the game you are guided to one of the cities because you choose an starting class. To give an example, there are no Summoners in Eorzea, their arts are lost and you actually learn how to use them using the same principles of the Arcanist class in the quest involved and the guidance of the soul crystal. The jobs are an advanced version of the classes only a few know or its a lost knowledge (or in case of the Machinist, something new).

[Colino]

I'm not that attached to classes, so I wouldn't be devastated to see them go, however I do wonder what there is to gain from even doing that. Other than the understandably annoying SCH/SMN split, there's not that much harm in leaving the classes as they are, whereas a complete revamp would require a lot of resources that I would personally prefer they spent elsewhere or making new content.

[NaesakiAshwell]

1) Set a strict Class => Job progression: This would require level capping Classes to lv30. Meaning you cannot level a class past the lv30 cap, and can only continue leveling to 50 by unlocking the job. Once you unlock the job, that class ceases to exist and instead becomes the job (example: If you level Pugilist to 30 and do the quest to unlock Monk, swapping weapons will not make you a Pugilist, but a Monk instead; the job stones would be moved from the Armoury tabs to the Key Items tab, and would no longer need to be equipped).

This sounds like the ideal solution to me, and then when you look at the class page on your character info. When you get the job of the class, its name will change accordingly. It wouldn't discount the storyline you've done as that class, since it can still happily exist, but once you unlock the job, the class is gone from a game play perspective as you have advanced beyond it.

[St0rmchild]

The removal of classes it's likely not to happen.

Uh. As I recall Yoshi-P has said this WILL happen circa 5.0

[Zhamkyong]

Uh. As I recall Yoshi-P has said this WILL happen circa 5.0

I may have missed that. Then i hope they know what they are doing because it would a great change, or maybe i am just overthinking it, i dont know.