Job points = another form of merit points?

[Aldersyde]

The system honestly sounds absolutely horrible for people who want JP for less popular jobs. Remember during ToAU, when you were a drg, bst, pup, pld, blm, or sch you could at least console yourself with the thought you could cap merits by whoring out your rdm or brd?

That won't happen this time around. If you love your job, have fun waiting hours for an invite or trying to build parties when everyone you ask "What jobs do have so far?" and when you answer "lesspopularjob" get the reply of "lol" or complete silence thereafter. And woe to all those party leaders who don't choose the super-perfect maximally optimal ginormous JP camp, woe!

I think people have forgotten how much building merit parties actually sucked. Combine the suckage of building six-man parties with the suckage of a system where you can't even transfer points between jobs and you have system of super suckage.

What were they thinking?

[Camiie]

What were they thinking?

As usual they ignore past history and human nature when implementing content. Just when you think they'd learned their lesson by implementing point systems and the like, they backslide hard for no apparent reason.

[Rifaran]

this is a terrible idea for it to not be able to get job points in aby, now it will mean even less people with lv 99 jobs on certain jobs. so now instead of someone who could have lvled up a dd,healer,tank or support or such job, they won't because they won't be able to get exp parties in aby, because no one will want to do them because you don't get job points there. as usual Square Enix takes 1 step forward and 5000 steps backwards..........

[Peepiopi]

this is a terrible idea for it to not be able to get job points in aby, now it will mean even less people with lv 99 jobs on certain jobs. so now instead of someone who could have lvled up a dd,healer,tank or support or such job, they won't because they won't be able to get exp parties in aby, because no one will want to do them because you don't get job points there. as usual Square Enix takes 1 step forward and 5000 steps backwards..........

I don't know.. It's not like aby parties are the only way to get experience these days. Sure they're the fastest and the easiest (you can literally semi-afk to 99 while other people do the work). But Trusts + FoV + SoE is really good exp for soloing in all sorts of different locations, and there are still GoV book burns and level sync for folks that want the fast exp. So assuming this kills Aby worm parties (which it might, or might not.. but it will certainly slow them down) then there are still plenty of options for people.

Also, I'm not really seeing how the fact that you can't get job points from Aby burns will have any influence on peoples' job selections.

What exactly is less "mind numbing" about killing EXP mobs in Adoulin than killing EXP mobs in Abyssea?

Hey, some people probably have a blast in aby worm parties, but for me it's near vomit inducing. In Adoulin areas, not only do you get a bunch of bonuses from Ionis for skillups and stuff, there are also reives, and wildskeeper reives updates in the zones. So there are more dynamic and fun things to do there, rather than running around and killing worms.

I doubt thats where all the 99s are going to run to for farming Job points, since I predict that lvl 95+ GoV camps are going to be more of a faster option for exp burners (Kuftal, Boyahda, Bostaneau Oiblette, etc..). But in my opinion, just about anything in the game is more fun than worm parties.