New Job Concept: Riskbreaker

[Jandor]

As for losing Maiming and Scouting gear.
IF they dont add any more melee jobs, then you might be right about Maiming gear. However having too many jobs sharing the same gear is going to make having multiple jobs with different builds very tricky to manage.
Same goes for Scouting if they don't add any more jobs that use Dex.

But as future melee and ranged jobs ARE likely, as I indicated in the OP, merging them would end up causing problems. They need to expand them instead.

They could get around materia problem, link it to soul stone like your stat points were in HW, provide a materia board with gear simply increasing or decreasing it's slots and stat levels, etc.

As for STR/DEX/etc. jobs, well the different main stats are pointless, they're all copies of each other anyway. As such picking a job based on which main stat it will use also feels a tad pointless.
I'd be slightly surprised if STR/DEX/INT and MND survive (at least as they are) in to 5.0, but I guess we'll see on that.

Also for an existing FF job to merge it with... how about Riskbreaker from Vagrant Story or Foebreaker from FFXII?

Never played either, that's my bad for not doing proper checking.