Possible removal of Classes

[bass9020]

The same goes for a job like Bard. Because it comes from the Archer class, it can't have its own unique identity as a 'Bard'. And personally I think they squished these two jobs together just because they couldn't think of a way to balance a Ranger job that was full-on dd.

Existing classes also restrict future job options. For as long as Bard exists as an Archer class there cannot ever be a Ranger class in FFXIV, despite 'Ranger' being one of the iconic FF jobs (and not remotely related to Bard). The same goes for, say, Ninja; as long as Ninja comes from Rogue there cannot ever be a 'Thief' job in FFXIV.

There are potential opportunities for many things (job adjustments, future jobs, creating a unique identity) that would happen if the class system was done away with.

They should have never added Bard in 1.0 unless they added a new class. It was an odd decision honestly. They could have changed things for 2.0 like beaucse of the calamity Bards became this so and so class and now Rangers stepped out of the wood work but they didn't do that.

Yoshi specifically said they didn't want to add thief so the rogue thing isn't because of the classes. But I agree that summoner and scholar is a mess with the base class sharing.