I'm needing to have two styles of footnotes on the same page (1,2,3,4 ...) and (*,†,‡ ...).
I have this working by using two ::footnote calls with two different classes for my different footnotes.
Where my problem comes in is with the counting, I want to use two separate counters for each footnote class.

Currently I'm getting:
*. first footnote with special char style
2. first footnote with number style
‡. second footnote with special char style
4. second footnote with number style

What I want is:
*. first footnote with special char style
1. first footnote with number style
†. second footnote with special char style
2. second footnote with number style

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I'm sorry if there is anything that isn't clear, please let me know if you need anymore information or explanation.

If you need to reset the counter on each page, then I don't think this is currently possible. If you don't need to reset the counter, then it might be possible with sufficient ingenuity.