Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

Krueger_sl said:

Does this game use essentially the same class system that was in FFXI, wherein you have the main class and subclass, and you can switch between them or other classes at will? I haven't followed the game that much due to the horrible original launch, and I can't find anything about that specifically on the official site.

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No it doesn't. It uses the same system of one char > all classes, but there's no primary/sub class system. Instead you have a certain amount of slots(it's like one every 5levels iirc) that you can fill with any ability of another class that can be used with the weapon type you have currently. That's most self buff type things(think +dmg, +speed, +def cooldowns etc) as well as some attacks between the physical classes and some spells between the caster classes. But you can use heal and taunt on every class for example. However, one of the downsides of jobs, which are advanced classes, is that you can only pick from the primary and secondary class of that job. For example Bard is the mix of Conjurer and Archer, and as such if you play a Bard, you can only use skills from these 2. Jobs will be nice for specializing but for soloing/leveling it's likely that normal classes will be more efficient since you'll be able to mix in more stuff.

Also classes can be changed in the field by simply swapping to it, there's a system that saves your gear and skills and stuff. Also to note, crafting and gathering are also classes, so to do them you have to swap, which sadly is quite annoying when gathering since that means you first need to swap class to start it. Don't know if that'll change.