Difference between classes

[Reika]

the major problem I see between classes and jobs is there is no major stat changes. Some jobs may lose some hp and gain some mp, but theres no other stat changes when changing from class - job. where there should be a difference there is not.

SE added jobs to fullfil 'roles' but nothing changes majorly that changes the role of one class to another. Like cnj for example again can still play the healer role without switching to whm, it would only just be a little harder. gld would still be a tank without switching to pld, it would only be a little harder. I think that is what the op was getting at in the first place.

Way back when classes didn't have any real defined roles. SE's plan to fix this was jobs, but somewhere along the line they decided to define class roles as well, which to me didn't make any sense. Had they have left classes alone, Jobs would for sure be the 'you do this and cant equip all of these skills anymore, therefore you can only do this' and classes would be the 'jacks of all trades' that cant really do any single thing nearly as well as a job could. They never really needed to make certain class spells 'class' specific, but enhance them for the job.

Thats how I feel about their changes at least... There will be more changes in 2.0, and I hope we see a real difference between the class and the job then.