Quote Originally Posted by Jhett_Magnum View Post
SE is planning on ridding classes soon.
Hadn't heard about that, but that's sad.
I liked the concept of what they'd tried to do with Arcanist (split paths), and dislike the direction they took with all the new class-less jobs. :-(

Granted, I've never been fond of a lot of the specifics (they mixed their magic classes up too much. Conjurer's original description sounds more like Black Mage, Thaumaturge's original description sounds more like the Biomancy facets of Arcanist or even White Mage, and I'm nor really sure why Arcanist ended up being some split Biomancy/Summoner thing in the first place), but still...

That said, doing something like Musketeer->Machinist + Sniper, Archer-> Bard(?) + Ranger, Conjurer->Black Mage (or White Mage if we must) + Geomancer, etc. would be a lot more interesting to me.
And having advanced jobs even beyond that (WHM + BLM unlocks the path for RDM, etc.) could be fun too, but they even went so far as to strip out the cross-class system. :-/

Biomancer->Scholar/Doctor + Plague-Bringer would have been great too, but eh... :-(