Well this mixture comes pretty much close to the SCH we've had in FFXI. Dependand on the situation you picked your bonuses for White magic or Black magic.

I do like the advancing classes idea but.... I don't like the fact that those "old" classes are not going to be played anymore. Let's say they really implement the specialization to WHM and BLM. Noone will ever play CON or THM again. Since you always want to max out your jobs.

If you got an event running and you need a mainhealer. Pick the WHM with higher cure potency and less MP cost/spell or pick the CON who can access both WHM and BLM spells?

I dunno.. the balancing is really going to be hard unless SE has already a plan how to do it and only need some tweaking in the end.

I want new update notes already damn it xD