The importance of job points

[Demonjustin]

What the hell would be "lucky" about that?

Sadomasochism for the win!

[Afania]

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.

Those jobs can get JP without the need to solo anyways, they always get invite to incursion/CP pt/delve pt.

[Jile]

Those jobs can get JP without the need to solo anyways, they always get invite to incursion/CP pt/delve pt.

The point though is its very lopsided toward a few jobs getting relatively easy points and other jobs stranded in solo-town.

[Protey]

The point though is its very lopsided toward a few jobs getting relatively easy points and other jobs stranded in solo-town.

no it's not. go do incursion, any job is acceptable to go to that unless you are doing the high levels. Go shout for a PUG incursion if for some reason your LS leaders are a**holes and won't let you come on BST, PUP, or w/e.

[Protey]

???

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

There is not "plenty of market" for them. About the only market for them is Dardaublas. People don't make the other empyreans because those weapons suck. And people don't go above 90 on ochain either. Yes, you'll find one or two nutbars out there that really want to take those weapons to 119, but they would have a better weapon spending less effort elsewhere. Those one or two people can hardly be considered "plenty of market".

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

So I was just wondering, how is everyone liking the new gift system using spent job points? I wonder what they would have done if they had implemented into the merit system before job points even existed?

[Tennotsukai]

So I was just wondering, how is everyone liking the new gift system using spent job points? I wonder what they would have done if they had implemented into the merit system before job points even existed?

I'm actually really close to finishing all my gifts, so I'm kind of surprised to say I'm okay with it. I'm just worried how many points will be needed for these new abilities/spells in the future.

[Camiie]

So I was just wondering, how is everyone liking the new gift system using spent job points? I wonder what they would have done if they had implemented into the merit system before job points even existed?

It sucks because so far I haven't been able to make any meaningful progress with job points. Finding a JP party or people to join one is pretty much impossible in my experience. Soloing them is extremely slow and tedious even with an ongoing campaign, decent cape, and ring. For me, the community just isn't there to support this type of content. It might have been fine when there were 3k people on the server but now that it's between 500 and 800 with most of those being afk, it just doesn't work unless you have 5 buddies who are always on.

[Jile]

So I was just wondering, how is everyone liking the new gift system using spent job points? I wonder what they would have done if they had implemented into the merit system before job points even existed?

Given there seem to be so many people with schedule's like mine, where I come on to do Dynamis and perhaps a bcnm or two and that's about the extent of my available playtime - I'll have to see how this progresses over the next few years it takes me to max out a job. If I still played like I did in 2005 I'd be done with a job or two by now but far too many people have placed life over the game, like myself and won't get full benefit from this 'gift' for a long, long time.

[Olor]

It sucks because so far I haven't been able to make any meaningful progress with job points. Finding a JP party or people to join one is pretty much impossible in my experience. Soloing them is extremely slow and tedious even with an ongoing campaign, decent cape, and ring. For me, the community just isn't there to support this type of content. It might have been fine when there were 3k people on the server but now that it's between 500 and 800 with most of those being afk, it just doesn't work unless you have 5 buddies who are always on.

This is my experience as well. I have actually been going out of my way to farm JP on BST and I think I have 6 so far? And that is with spending like 1/2 of my playtime on JP farming. Granted I don't play much (probably because solo grinding JP is boring... but also some family busyness)... but still. They need to add more JP to more content because it's BS trying to get them on a job no one wants to invite to anything... which just makes the job suck even more.