Possible removal of Classes

[SendohJin]

ultimately dispensing with classes and rewriting the class stories to jobs is pretty much inevitable.

there's nothing inevitable about it. just leave them alone and save the development time on new things.

maybe give 1 free jump potion for every character so they can ignore that completely for anyone who wants to.

[St0rmchild]

there's nothing inevitable about it. just leave them alone and save the development time on new things.

In case you missed it, Yoshi-P has pretty much said classes will be gone circa 5.0

[Ariane]

Well there are a lot of quests attached to those classes, so I don't think they'll be removed simply for that reason only.

Removing classes probably will just mean you still start with classes at level 1, but once you do the level 30 job quest, the class get renamed forever to the job name. The class and job is the same thing, but there's just a name change at level 30. This would keep all the class quests and lore. The difference for the players would be they can't remove the soul crystals to go back to the class anymore. They would probably also do away with soul crystals and the armory space for them. The soul crystals would still be a thing in the story for the job quests but not something you actually hold in inventory space.

[Kallera]

In case you missed it, Yoshi-P has pretty much said classes will be gone circa 5.0

The only way id be okay with this is if they came back redesigned as jobs.

[SendohJin]

In case you missed it, Yoshi-P has pretty much said classes will be gone circa 5.0

i did, where/when?

[Talraen]

Removing classes probably will just mean you still start with classes at level 1, but once you do the level 30 job quest, the class get renamed forever to the job name. The class and job is the same thing, but there's just a name change at level 30. This would keep all the class quests and lore. The difference for the players would be they can't remove the soul crystals to go back to the class anymore. They would probably also do away with soul crystals and the armory space for them. The soul crystals would still be a thing in the story for the job quests but not something you actually hold in inventory space.

I agree that this would be the logical way to do it, but with so little actual effect, why even bother changing it?

[St0rmchild]

i did, where/when?

Had to go look for it - sorry took me a while to find the source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ida_after_nas/

Quote:
"Existing jobs will have different images accompanying those changes. The unification of jobs and class itself may be in 5.0 onwards when asked, that is if they want to do it. Because that itself will take a lot of time to actually execute it, they don't have time right now to deal with this."

I recall it having been said elsewhere to, but I can't find the source for this atm so I'm not sure.

[Lunalepsy]

Development changes, change of direction.

[Jandor]

In case you missed it, Yoshi-P has pretty much said classes will be gone circa 5.0

Quote:
"Existing jobs will have different images accompanying those changes. The unification of jobs and class itself may be in 5.0 onwards when asked, that is if they want to do it. Because that itself will take a lot of time to actually execute it, they don't have time right now to deal with this.".

He said that if they get rid of them, it won't be till at least 5.0.

It's not really "pretty much saying classes will be gone circa 5.0" at all.

[MsQi]

There is no reason to remove the classes are they currently are. They are just part of your story before you move on to a new teacher. They add a lot to the depth of the world.