(03-17-2017, 01:26 PM)Valen Wrote: Even in games like Final Fantasy VII, Cid has the Jump ability, but he's not called a Dragoon. Barret uses guns and gadgets, but he's not called a Machinist. The only person from that game that outright says they are a certain "class" would be Yuffie.
Bad example since the series straight up did away with classes for main series games starting with VII (with three exceptions in certain characters in IX and the MMOs).
VI Japanese version had classes for everyone, for example - Which didn't get localized for the SNES version (GBA version restored those, with some wonkiness, such as Shadow being an Assassin instead of Ninja).
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In so far as mechanics are concerned, I expect SE to get rid of the "15 in another class" requirement and have much more linear progression with each class. Especially since they seem to be doing away with cross-class abilities to favor placing certain abilities in a shared role pool (E.G.: Every Tank gets Provoke mainline and not just PLDs.)
Thing is, they've said squat about the revamping of the battle system so we don't know.
