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  1. #21
    Player Alhanelem's Avatar
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    Shiva
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stompa View Post
    I agree with your point, about how it would be nice to play my favourite job in all the Job Points runs, and feel I'm getting special points for that job.

    Obviously Merit Points are the original old-school system, and they can be farmed on any job and spent on anything. My original point here was that my LS requires me to go WHM or RDM for job points runs, and so I end up with lots of what I consider wasted job points, points for a job I don't play except under duress. I don't want divine seal bonuses etc. lol. I want more job points on PUP and WAR. But often we are short of healers and that means I'm getting divine seal etc. job points. I don't think that is fair at all. If I am going WHM to help out and be useful and friendly, and imho playing Whm is kind of joyless and stressful, I don't feel I'm being rewarded for my effort when I can't use those points on something I actually want and need.
    You only grind points with your LS? No one else has a healer job? Maybe I'm judging too hard, but some linkshell friends if they don't let you use the jobs you need / want to use. I've only ever grinded solo since job points came out, I joined one party one time but it didn't last very long
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  2. #22
    Player Stompa's Avatar
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    Nebula
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    Leviathan
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    PUP Lv 99
    Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
    You only grind points with your LS? No one else has a healer job? Maybe I'm judging too hard, but some linkshell friends if they don't let you use the jobs you need / want to use. I've only ever grinded solo since job points came out, I joined one party one time but it didn't last very long
    I solo'd a lot of job points, but I like to party with my LS when they do extended JP farms during double-JP times. Other people have healer jobs but are not always online/free to join the party. And I am a nice person, I like to help people and make people happy. So if they need a healer I will go. My point is really that I find WHM extended grinds to be a fairly miserable experience, and yet I do it to help my friends out. I feel that this kindness on my part should be rewarded, by allowing me to spent those job points on other jobs. Its like I'm being penalised for being helpful and a useful member of the group.

    But apart from that small gripe, I really do think Job Points are a great idea, and I'm so glad SE finally added a way to specialise our favourite jobs and make them more personalised to our individual preferences.
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  3. #23
    Player Alhanelem's Avatar
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    OK, I figured I was looking at it the wrong way
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    Player Jeanna's Avatar
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    Second to include that a bit of a fix to JP in general would be like merit points, to allow job points to be accrued and used on any job, not just the job they were accrued on.

    My main char is a Yag whm and it's not really fair, ideal or realistic to tell my LS to let me come thf or whatever else to delve and incursion, etc for the obscene amount of runs it'd take me to cap all the stuff I want on other jobs.

    I get a lot of JP on whm with nothing left to really spend them on and it's kind of a bummer :/
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  5. #25
    Player Zarchery's Avatar
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    Well I look forward to this update. This happened this morning:

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  6. #26
    Player Tidis's Avatar
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    Tydis
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    Well that's just ridiculous, how do you get your job points?
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    Player Zarchery's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tidis View Post
    Well that's just ridiculous, how do you get your job points?
    I'm a little leery about blabbing in an open forum and losing my camp. I probably provided more information than I should have by including the mob name in the screenshot. I think it's taken about 2 months to get those 200, and maybe like 250 hours solo. We're still in double capacity points until the 25th. I got a Vocation Ring (double capacity points, 12 charges, max bonus of 12,000 capacity points per charge) whenever Red Mog Pells are given out, and I think there was another Vocation Ring given out for some event about a year ago.

    I always have either Capacity Ring or Vocation Ring active when killing. If neither is available (Capacity Ring reuse is 60 minutes but I usually blow through it in 30-40 minutes), I find some other way to kill time during the gap. I always fire off a Capacity Ring charge just before logging off to go to bed or work or anywhere else where I'll be away for 30 minutes or longer. Since the reuse timer keeps counting down even if you're logged off, this ensures I can "double dip" and get 2 charges back to back. If I do this and I'm left with 1 charge, I can "triple dip" (1 charge before logging out, use 1 charge when that is used up, toss ring and get a new one for 1 more charge after). Theoretically you could just toss your Capacity Ring after each charge and buy a new one; I usually gained sparks fast enough to do this, but I have an inherent aversion to being wasteful.

    I still need about 210 more. It's not shown in the screenshot, but that 200 is in addition to 58 I already spent. I'm 10/10 on Chakra and 2/10 on Dodge. The Dodge job points I'd take back if I could; I got them from a party shortly after the job point system was introduced and Chakra wasn't available yet. I'm pretty Chakra obsessed and currently get 1328 healing when I use it with VIT merits, Chakra job points, and Chakra gear. Devs said they were going to raise the per category cap on job points from 10 to 30, so I'd like to get 30/30 Chakra if they do.
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  8. #28
    Player Alhanelem's Avatar
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    I'm a little leery about blabbing in an open forum and losing my camp. I probably provided more information than I should have by including the mob name in the screenshot. I think it's taken about 2 months to get those 200, and maybe like 250 hours solo.
    It's kind of a jerky thing to do to keep things like that a secret. It can't be the only great farming spot, anyway.
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  9. #29
    Player Tidis's Avatar
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    It's interesting you got them in ra'kaznar when supposedly Woh Gates should have the highest capacity point gain, I have considered sharpening up my accuracy sets and hitting Woh Gates again as a dual box, currently if I farm jop points, I do it in Dho.
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    Player detlef's Avatar
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    Valefor
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
    It's kind of a jerky thing to do to keep things like that a secret. It can't be the only great farming spot, anyway.
    The mob is in the screenshot, what more do you want? How lazy could you be?
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