Why do I have no drive?

[Arkine]

I actually never really considered what would happen to the new jobs they plan on adding... if dark night becomes gladiator with a few more abilities I'm pretty sure I'm going to be very mad. The reason it seems ok now is because the jobs are obvious progressions for the current classes.. But like you mention with samurai, and other odd jobs.. when they are released are they just going to be old classes / new classes with 5 extra skills? That kind of sucks.. I really do miss XI's job system in the sense that every job could stand on it's on and had a unique skill set... Current system feels like a cop out now that I think a bit more on it.. =\ I kind of wish the armory system would just go away along with classes and we just got stand alone jobs... And it's not just like XI, because I'm pretty sure every MMO has stand alone classes.. @_@ Upgrades sure, but kind of shot themselves in the foot if you ask me.

And they could have solved this easily by making that when you equip a job stone your lets say GLA 50 turns into PLD 1 and you would play PLD and it would share "some" skills with GLA but in general be a new job and the job won't be bound under the weapon system and be able to go weaponless but not be able to engage in combat and it could have access to maces and swords as an example.

That way you can play PLD from Lv1 to 50 and if they add something new like Dark Knight to GLA you just have to equip the job stone and your GLA 50 will turn into DRK 1 and you can equip a great sword or scythe.

Everybody gets what they want, some get new jobs with new abilities to play from scratch and the poor souls that don't know any better can keep their classes and SE can keep its stupid Armory system "in spirit" in the game.

Shouldn't be that hard to do, just take the job abilities, add some more for new weapons or re-use what you have for the current weapons and you'll have to add a few more abilities and you'll be good to go.

Hell you can even change a couple of text lines in the jobs quests and it'll all fall into place.

Someone should petition this... (Also SE should hire me!)