Quote Originally Posted by Tempestmoon View Post
From what I have seen and some of the wording in the new quests. The Companies are going to be Class specific where you will be feeding the cities war machine some how. Crafters can build weapons and ammo to build up the cities strength. Gatherers will obviously supply them, and the combat classes will fight againt the empire in the grand company.
I can see where this idea comes from, having completed the Ul'dah set (at least I THINK I've completed it), but I'd still consider this speculation at this point. We'll only know in time if this is true or false.