Hm Square enix dev please take a look at this

[Zyph]

They shouldn't "get rid" of classes, they should just call the current classes that we have right now the same name as jobs, ex: Pugilist will be called Monk starting at level 1, at level 30 they can do the quest to focus their jobs using a soul crystal, giving them what they have as "jobs" now.

[Arkine]

They shouldn't "get rid" of classes, they should just call the current classes that we have right now the same name as jobs, ex: Pugilist will be called Monk starting at level 1, at level 30 they can do the quest to focus their jobs using a soul crystal, giving them what they have as "jobs" now.

If you apply the current job restrictions to the newly renamed class then nobody would NOT want to get the (now redundant)crystal, and not having the abilities will make you too gimp.

If you don't apply the restrictions then it will be just a pointless name change.

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I have no love for the class system and would like to see it be replaced by jobs. (Heck I like the FFXI Job/sub Job approach, atleast it gives the "but I wanna equip cure and stoneskin so jobs are important!" crowd the survivability the want.) though, doing that requires the game to be rebalanced again and go as far as to remake the abilities (or some of them) again to make it work.