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I think they actually are gonna step away from job gauges for at least a few jobs, their importance has been reducing further and further as time goes by even if they're not stepping away from the builder-spender job design just yet. Bard's could be replaced with a timer, Dragoon's only tracks whether you've used Geirskogul and whether Wyrmwind Thrust can be used now, Black Mage's is essentially vestigial and only tracks Foul/Xenoglossy count and whether you can use Flare Star, Viper and Reaper's biggest elements are tracking your actual combo step during transformation burst.

I do hope they try class designs that aren't builder-spender, even their "measured, constant DPS jobs" in Viper and Monk are still builder-spenders now at the end of the day.