The importance of job points

Grinding? In an MMO? Who would have thought.

Job points take longer than merits because merits 1) are not fixed, they can be removed and changed whilst job points are per anent. 2) merits are expended for level caps, unlocking weapon skills, phantom gems.

Job points are a decent mid-long term growth which can't be capped in 30min. It takes about a week of grinding in CP parties at 3-4 hours per day to get 50-70CP, or about as long as it took to get a job from 1-75 back before abyssea.

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Originally Posted by Ophannus

Grinding? In an MMO? Who would have thought.

Job points take longer than merits because merits 1) are not fixed, they can be removed and changed whilst job points are per anent. 2) merits are expended for level caps, unlocking weapon skills, phantom gems.

Job points are a decent mid-long term growth which can't be capped in 30min. It takes about a week of grinding in CP parties at 3-4 hours per day to get 50-70CP, or about as long as it took to get a job from 1-75 back before abyssea.

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i think you mean 50-70 JP, lol.

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Originally Posted by Grekumah

The concept of job points is meant to be like you are leveling a specific job past level 99 and due to this we are not considering to make it so you can save up job points on a separate job than the one you would like to use them on.

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This tickles me, I distinctly remember when SE where asked about job balancing Job Points where mentioned. "we will be using the job point system to continue to balance the jobs"

But rather than say making DRK equal to monk, a Dark has to find a cap point party so already thats twice the work a monk has to do because everyone wants a monk for DD, then they have to build those points everyday over time hoping to get more invites in the hope of getting close to a monk without any job points.

So basicly do 10x the work to be equal, Is this really working as intended? This is really job balancing? lol

Im just gad im the monk in that situation, and don't ever see myself using the "lesser" jobs now at all.

Im not saying the whole system is terrible, but to make someone work very hard to just be mediocre at a job is crazy, either scrap the job or make the lesser jobs on par before the cap points/gifts system calculations

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll make reforged Empyrean be Su2. ;)

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Originally Posted by DerianX

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll make reforged Empyrean be Su2. ;)

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Oh please no........

Art.

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Originally Posted by DerianX

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll make reforged Empyrean be Su2. ;)

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Originally Posted by Artharian

Oh please no........

Art.

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Oh jeeze, please no....

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Originally Posted by DerianX

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll make reforged Empyrean be Su2. ;)

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What the hell would be "lucky" about that?

it'll probably be HMPs, riftcinders, etc. to reforge empyrean armor. would bring back the market for those items (which would be nice for those wanting to make 99 dardaubla)

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Originally Posted by Protey

it'll probably be HMPs, riftcinders, etc. to reforge empyrean armor. would bring back the market for those items (which would be nice for those wanting to make 99 dardaubla)

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???

There's already plenty of market for them. One of the big issues of the game today is that the market demand outstrips supply.

I feel bad for whoever is on whm or other support jobs that solo their jp farming. It must take them forever to max out a category. :(