Just made a new warrior character with no idea what job he would be. With that being said I've narrowed it down to Fighter and Page. I was leaning towards fighter when someone told me there was a new source coming out that would greatly increase the Page/White Knight/Paladin class in terms of damage. Would Page be as strong/stronger than fighter for the new source? I guess I would be interested in pros and cons for both of the classes currently and for the new source. Thanks!
The changes to Pages/White Knights/Paladins in the new source have not been announced yet. If you're willing to wait around, the skill changes will probably be public knowledge in ~18 days when the public beta for the new source is opened. When making skill changes, the devs have said they will primarily use v72 skills with some v86 buffs. See this post for a list of what the changes could be. Whether Pages/White Knights/Paladins will be stronger than Fighters/Crusaders/Heroes depends on which skills the devs decide to pull from v86. At 4th job with full v86 buffs, Paladins will be stronger than Heroes in some cases (single target, many targets) thanks to buffs to Blast, elemental charges, Threaten, and Heaven's Hammer. Right now, they're weaker than Heroes in almost every situation. At 3rd job, Crusaders are stronger than White Knights right now. With the new source, White Knights will come closer to Crusader's damage, but I'm unsure whether they will match it (this depends a lot on v72 vs v86, thanks to dual charging). At 2nd job, however, Pages and Fighters are completely equal in damage, and it will stay that way after the new source changes.
