Well the reason they do that is because the jobs are supposed to be more "specialized" and have more defined roles for party play. Rather than trying to be a jack of all trades like with classes, they want jobs to be more group focused and have people focus on specific roles.
Classes however, are geared more towards soloing and stuff and being able to be more versatile. Jobs are limited to skills from their two sub classes, and one additional class. So for your "main" class of that job you'll have all of the skills, and then you can pull skills from the following:
While running around and playing all the classes I noticed that all of the class guilds have a similar layout. All except the Marauder. In the rest of the class guilds you find the receptionist, the master and people training. However in the Marauder's guild there seems to be room for two guilds. My suspicions grew as I noticed the flags. These normally have the guild symbol on each. But here there are two different symbols. On the Marauder symbol, two axes crossed, the other is two pistols crossed. And I think this is a possible class that will be in release, Musketeer or something along those lines. (these pictures are in the FFXIV album) Do you guys think this could be the Musketeer/gun class? What kind of skills do you think it will have? Will it become the Corsair?
Yeah it's definitely Musketeer. I think they did hint at it coming shortly after release, probably in the first content patch like Rickz said. As for which job will branch off of it, that still remains to be seen. But Corsair does make a lot of sense.
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