Super Advanced Classes (04/17/12)

[Neptune]

The current repertoire of classes and jobs is superfluous, at best. This can easily be seen by taking a look at the jobs needed to clear raids: Warrior, Black Mage, White Mage, and Bard.

So I suggest the addition of 4 Super Advanced Classes that any job can become by equipping a Super Advanced Job Stone. The 4 Super Advanced Classes are:

Super Tank
Super Mage
Super Healer &
Super Ranged Attacker

Super Tank
Super HP, Super Damage, & Super Defense

Super Mage
Super Spells from a super safe distance and Super AOE

Super Healer
Super Healing

Super Ranged Attacker
Super Ranged Attack from a super safe distance (with a few buttons to click that deliver Super Buffs)

WAR or PLD => ST
THM, CNJ, or BLM => SM
THM, CNJ, or WHM => SH
DoW => SRA

As you can see, it's a simple plan that will allow all classes and jobs to participate in difficult end-game content. It's a lot easier than fretting over how to include the original classes or the jobs that seem so useless to most even though they were just introduced in this very same patch.

Imagine what it would be like to see a shout like this in Ul'Dah:
(Looking for members.) Super Tank, Super Mages, Super Healers, and Super Ranged Attackers for (Instanced Raid.)

[Jokerz]

Please be a troll...

[Nullie]

I was going to say something, but then I forgot.

[Brannigan]

Shut up idiot

[Majidah]

This is a joke, right? I... I'm not sure.

[Pharacelcus]

where would this leave my current super dragoon?

[Neptune]

where would this leave my current super dragoon?

Super Ranged Attacker
Super Ranged Attack from a super safe distance (with a few buttons to click that deliver Super Buffs)

Never get left out of a raid again! (Just don't leave your Super Advanced Job Stone in your Armoire..)

[Alerith]

Err....I can't tell if this is a serious thread or not.....

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

It's Neptune, so. No. I don't take this seriously.

[SwordCoheir]

Well considering Jobs only just come out, and they only just rebuilt the classes a few patches ago it's expected there is going to be some tweaking involved to make the classes / jobs distinctly stand out from one another and be balanced.

Even without class stacking a majority of the content isn't so difficult it can't be done, they just have to make content that doesn't encourage stacking like it does with speed runs.

But if you want to really make classes distinct, I'd say kill cross class abilities on the Jobs and add another five abilities to define that job even more. There's no reliance on abilities from other jobs, nothing to help make them OP or versatile, it's all you and what you can do with what you got.