Scholar... SAY WHUT?

[Xeia]

The only difference between multiple classes from 1 job would be the 5 abilities said job gives... Yoshi did say he wanted, but how it's turning out I hope he decides against it. I've had this debate so many times and I'm still not going to like the idea of multiple jobs. My 2 main arguments against are starting with it at level 50, and the fact that any job that branches from a class WILL be the same role. GLA, for example, has abilities and traits which make it only suited to tanking. It's next to impossible to have a job branch off GLA and make it DD or anything. That's just my opinion though; sounds like a lot of wasted potential having 2 jobs which are pretty much exactly the same bar those few job abilities.

These are my concerns exactly.

People keep comparing the idea of multiple jobs from one class to other games which have specialization trees, but it isn't the same. In other games it makes sense to have different specializations to make some variety between the players who chose the same class, but they can't switch back and forth. If they could, the differences between the specializations would start to feel awfully trivial -- in XIV those small varieties are made through equipping abilities from other classes.

In games where the specializations are supposed to be truly different classes they branch much earlier than 3/5s of the way to cap and then get a significant amount of extra abilities. Not five (or even seven, as is apparently the rumor for SMN).

If we do have two jobs coming from the same class (and I'm not necessarily saying that we don't), then I'm pretty confident at least one of them won't function like they did in v1. There's just not even nearly enough room for actual job identity if they both do.

All in all, when P3/P4 patch drops we'll know more (since despite them saying wait till E3 to find out more about it, I don't know, since we were supposed to have videos of SMN/Arcanist outside of E3..)

If they don't tell us more at E3, it'll be a lot longer than just the P3/P4 patch before we have any decent answers, since neither job (nor ACN) are going to be in until launch