Job Leveling / Separate Idenity

[Mychael]

I'd be fine with leveling the normal way (as opposed to a crystarium/grid/board), but I do wish you had to level them.

Right now, each class only has one job. But in theory, that will change.

So by unlocking WHM and taking your CNJ's level to 50 as a WHM, you have CNJ50. Later in the game, SE introduces Elementalist, and after doing 5 quests, you're 50 ELE as well. Then, SE throws Green Mage into the mix. 5 more quests and you're at max level.

I feel like these are distinct jobs that we should have to level somehow.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

I'd be fine with leveling the normal way (as opposed to a crystarium/grid/board), but I do wish you had to level them.

Right now, each class only has one job. But in theory, that will change.

So by unlocking WHM and taking your CNJ's level to 50 as a WHM, you have CNJ50. Later in the game, SE introduces Elementalist, and after doing 5 quests, you're 50 ELE as well. Then, SE throws Green Mage into the mix. 5 more quests and you're at max level.

I feel like these are distinct jobs that we should have to level somehow.

Yep. this is the problem with current class system imo.

There's really no room to branch out from the classes without making the jobs seem shallow. Currently jobs are just the same as classes but with a few extra abilities added on. Implementing anything other than an entirely new class/job combination will just seem like a slight variation of the same old class.

Bard is the perfect example of this flaw. The bard we currently have is just an archer with some bard "songs" attached to it. It hardly resembles a bard class that I think most people were expecting.

[Dzian]

Yep. this is the problem with current class system imo.

There's really no room to branch out from the classes without making the jobs seem shallow. Currently jobs are just the same as classes but with a few extra abilities added on. Implementing anything other than an entirely new class/job combination will just seem like a slight variation of the same old class.

Amen to that