Just discovered the lvl 80 job quests

DRK and BRD were my favorites as always, simply because of the characters involved.

Dealing with the virtues made sense in ShB context but I still hope SE continues re-visiting the job NPCs and their storylines in future expansions, even if it's not a part of leveling.

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Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

Warrior gave me a chuckle, but poor Curious Gorge really needs to actually get some development if he's gonna show up again. He's gone through the same arc three times now.

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The Warrior quests can basically be summed up as

Curious Gorge: [Level 50 Solo Duty] Oh no, I can't control the inner beast!

Curious Gorge: [Level 50 Quest Ending] Wait, yes I can!

Curious Gorge: [Level 52] Wait, no I can't.

Curious Gorge: [Level 60] Wait, yes I can!

Curious Gorge: [Level 63] Wait, no I can't.

Curious Gorge: [Level 70] Wait, yes I can!

Curious Gorge: [Level 80] And I lost it again.

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Originally Posted by Edax

To be honest I found them to be unexpectedly short.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-for-this-xpac

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It's because they are meant to be like that, just a small "epilogue-ish" detail for the jobs in ShB... So much that their icons are of regular quests (hence why maybe a lot of people miss them out)

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Originally Posted by Bright-Flower

I was really disapointed by the paladin one. Just like with SB it was more a gladiator story than a paladin one. I'm never going to get a paladin questline where we go around doing free paladin knight errant type stuff am I? ARR was okay, HW was weird and convoluted and all about restoring a sword where the moral of the ARR story was the sword wasn't important, and then SB and SHB are really more about the gladiator characters.

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I liked HW because it was just as much about the sword as it was Solkzagyl still wanting to recover the blade as actual symbolism of himself as training a new Paladin and empowering someone to be able to do good. Got Constainte was so shafted in SB...


But yeah, I have been extremely disappointed with the PLD quests defaulting back to the goddamn Gladiator quests. It's getting boring. We already did a Tournament Arc, and the last quest didn't even let me beat the crap out of that blockhead! He just sees me and realizes he sucks and like. At least let me dropkick him? Once?

I want actual Paladin Quests. Not "Let's go back to the Gladiator Guild!"


God, even us trying to unwravel corruption in Ul'dah (hah the entire city's corrupt I know) where the Sultansworn can't would be awesome. We go be Knight Errants around Thanalan, taking down corruption and trying to make things better within the law, unrestricted by red tape.


nope GLADIATOR

I actually liked the PLD one, less for the PLD-side of the quest (there was none) but more for the spiritual behavior and mindset of Aldis. Actually not having to fight in this situation was something refreshing, as we are not dealing with an hothead wanting to prove himself but with someone with enough self-awareness to find himself lacking.

But what I don't like about it was the same Aldis standing at the gladiator gild after the quest, offering to fight me anytime I want when I talk to him now. It's like the quest never happend.

In general, I've found the lvl 80 job quests to be kinda meh, little more than "so, what are the NPCs you met in previous quests up to now?"

DRK was probably the strongest; I thought it was neat to be reintroduced to NPCs that were sort of incidental to our journey, rather than central to it. People who were little more than objects to us, things that needed to be saved, were given a bit more agency and personality. I felt that playing up the humanity of the rescuees was an important component to the overall lesson of the Dark Knight quests, that we're more than some kind of "hero machine" serving a thankless and entitled populace (insert coin to fight evil).

And while the DNC lvl 80 story was pretty lackluster, I really liked the dance sequence. It was well done.

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Originally Posted by Xion136

God, even us trying to unwravel corruption in Ul'dah (hah the entire city's corrupt I know) where the Sultansworn can't would be awesome. We go be Knight Errants around Thanalan, taking down corruption and trying to make things better within the law, unrestricted by red tape.

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At this point I've just given up hope of getting to do anything like this when in Stormblood, while there's a war going on, we're just...having a tournament instead of doing something actually useful, like defending refugees or something. Doesn't help that there weren't even really any stakes. No actual prize in lore (though of course gameplay wise we get the artifact armor and level 70 skill), and the only stakes were what's his name getting blackmailed into leaving the tournament. Oh no.

As a gladiator story 1 to 30 it would have been okay I guess, but it just really hurt to see that's what we got in SB.

I am so heavily disappointed that paladins yet again get nothing about being a paladin and we go back to the gladiator guild to have even that kinda end fairly poorly.
I like the machinist's one for the most part in checking back in with old peeps.
The scholar one felt like I actually did something in these things beside reminisce about past stuff.
The summoner one I liked well enough but... to actually understand why it's happening I feel you needed to read the random side stories (Tales From the Storm) that were published on the website and not in game...

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Originally Posted by AnimaAnimus

Ninja
Dock Storehouse (X: 5.9 Y: 6.1)
Oboro

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I just went back there to check, and no quest. I haven't had anything from him since level 70. I've done the quests in the Crystarium and the MSQ.

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Originally Posted by SamSmoot

I just went back there to check, and no quest. I haven't had anything from him since level 70. I've done the quests in the Crystarium and the MSQ.

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All that info was a copy/paste from the 5.0 patch notes. I haven't leveled nin, but the ones I have, have been correct. so idk what's going on with that. All it says on the patch notes for requirements are...
- Players must first complete the job quest "When Clans Collide," the level 80 physical DPS role quest, and the main scenario quest "Shadowbringers"