How will future advanced jobs work?

[Tigercub]

Curious what people think about this. Currently as we all know jobs are sort of extensions of preexisting classes. You don't level them separately, they don't have a huge amount of extra abilities and aren't drastically different than their root class.

This makes me wonder where jobs like Puppet Master, Blue Mage, Summoner, Beastmaster or Ninja fit in. Previous iterations don't resemble anything close to what classes we have now and couldn't be implemented in the same way as current advanced classes. Are we going to have a third archetype: the advanced base class, with no soul crystal? Or would SE somehow manage to shoehorn this into the soul crystal system? Or maybe these kinds of jobs will never see the light of day in FFXIV.

If there's any official word on this stuff, I'd love a link, even if it's just vague ideas of what the devs are planning for the distant future. Feel free to share your own thoughts on how this might work, 'cause it's been baking my noodle for the last couple of days.

[Atlas]

Well, for one, in the recent poll they mentioned jobs like Ninja, Summoner and Puppetmaster, so at least I guess they already have an idea on how to shove them in...
All it's left to understand is the 'How' they're going to do it.

[Urthdigger]

They're going to add new classes, each of which comes with an advanced job to come with it.

[viion]

I think one of the new classes will clearly be the Arcanist, there is just so much evidence to support it, Musketeer I think will eventually become a Job maybe.

They could do it like skill trees, where each class advances onto another, like Eden Eternal.

My idea of it could be such that, right now we have Job Tier 1, 30-50, If they ever increase level cap they could add new jobs onto that, 50-60 include the Tier 2 of Jobs, Summoner part of White Mage, Ninja part of Gladiator, Puppet part of Monk, and so on.

So Jobs become a sort of skill tree you can unlock, as in the end, that is all it is, you equip it, you can wear specific gear and use its unique skills. But to be more FF could be like "Skill Crystal" XD

[Tatsuguy]

Musketeer will probably be a class since it has its own guild.

[Felis]

Musketeer would be a class, not a job. Was planned as class since beginning and there is already a class guild for musketeer.

And yes, Yoshi already said there would come new classes and that the new classes would come with jobs.

[Volsung]

basically im hoping they add more weapon classes as the future comes and eventually give at least every class 1-2 jobs, (then they can add w/e advanced jobs they want that are mix and match or function differently)

Like if they add Musketeer, a DD with a gun as a base job class, you will get its abilities, traits, and weaponskills, then add jobs on top of it. Perhaps one job could be Pistolero, which has strong enfeeblements and focuses on staying DD, and another could be puppetmaster, and it could be a versatile pet job ontop of the gun class. Not saying this are things that should happen, but there is a lot of room for them to wiggle with.

[Jinko]

I would like to see them branch out so that it works like FFT.

Something like Base Class > Job > advanced job.

[Felis]

I voted for musketeer ^^

[Isaveron]

Musketeer would be a class, not a job. Was planned as class since beginning and there is already a class guild for musketeer.

Bard was suppose to be a class, but it's a job now. And they can easily get rid of the musketeer (and arcanist) guilds in the map revamp