The 18 Classes at launch.

[Skyblade]

Over half the classes are crafting ones so hopefully they will add more fighting ones soon.

Yeah, this is what I noticed. Lumping crafting in with the combat classes is all fine and dandy (though a little pointless, in my opinion), but it just seems like an excuse to say they have more classes than they actually do.

They have seven classes, and eleven gathering professions. I hope to heck they get more combat choices.

[Ouch!]

Flayer, Fencer, Musketeer, Assassin and others have already been unofficially "announced" via a leak. I imagine we'll see more classes relatively soon after the game's launch.

[Del Murder]

Soulflayer?

[Citizen Bleys]

I sure hope there are new classes at release date...no bard, no samurai, no blue mage...the wide variety of classes is what makes FFXI shine, S-E shouldn't throw that away.

I also wish they'd do away with that manually-allocated stats thing...if you allocate your stats for a melee job, you're in for a world of hurt when you go mage. FFXI's method of having your stats vary depending on your job is clearly superior.

EDIT: Maybe I should be telling this to S-E instead of EoFF...I mean, that is what they're not paying me for

[Del Murder]

I think you have the ability to reallocate it.

[Loony BoB]

How many classes were there at the beginning of FFXI?

[Del Murder]

At the start of the game you could only select from 6 jobs:

Warrior
Thief
Monk
White Mage
Black Mage
Red Mage

When the game was first released there were also 6 advanced jobs:

Paladin
Bard
Beastmaster
Dark Knight
Ranger
Dragoon

So 12 jobs, though you had to get to level 30 and do a quest for the advanced ones.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot loldrg

[Madame Adequate]

I dunno what headknives are but they sound badass. Going to be a LW. If I can dual-weild, going to have a headknives in one hand and a skillet in the other fgj

[Miriel]

I definitely think I want to go with one of the attacking jobs. Archer cause the bows are pretty, or Pugilist cause I like the outfits.

And Culinarian looks freakin' awesome!

Skillet!!



Weaver looks really cute too.



And obviously, cuteness is of the highest priority.

[FFIX Choco Boy]

Pugilist, I always go for the H2H classes. Prolly do fishing and culinary, too.

[Ouch!]

Flayer is purportedly a whip-wielding class. We'll have to wait and see on that one.

As of the beta, reallocation of stats when changing your class is possible. As far as I know there's not way yet to save stat profiles for specific classes, but I imagine that would help make it even better.

I think samurai was also on that list of leaked jobs. I don't recall seeing bard, and I know blue mage was not included (and given that Square Enix is typically scorning the traditional Final Fantasy job titles, I would doubt to see it as such). There was also a shepherd listed as one of the crafting jobs. Pet class?

[ChickenHeart]

Why does this feel like runescape...cooking, mineing and fishing :S

[Goldenboko]

Why does this feel like runescape...cooking, mineing and fishing :S

Virtually all MMO's have some kind of resource gathering.

[Lionx]

At the start of the game you could only select from 6 jobs:

Warrior
Thief
Monk
White Mage
Black Mage
Red Mage

When the game was first released there were also 6 advanced jobs:

Paladin
Bard
Beastmaster
Dark Knight
Ranger
Dragoon

So 12 jobs, though you had to get to level 30 and do a quest for the advanced ones.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot loldrg

Actually DRG was a RoZ expansion job along with Ninja and Samurai. The 6th advanced job that was out with the original was actually Summoner...with only Carbuncle. (i am serious this is not a joke)

Final Fantasy XI Online: Rise of Zilart (video game)

[Del Murder]

Oh wow, really? Hahaha that's some gimp SMNs.