Bring back job quests

I want job quests back. Role quests have largely just been awful and the removal of job quests has honestly only furthered the watering down of job identity. Yes, I understand they were removed because we get two jobs every expansion and the devs are finding it hard to keep up but honestly? I feel it would be very much worth the added development time.

I remember back in 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0 new job quests were always something I GREATLY looked forward to whilst leveling but with role quests? I don't even bother until I'm done with the MSQ usually and even then they typically do a poor job of making me feel invested (with some exceptions, Giott is the best). When I'm just there to be a "guy" it's a lot harder to feel attached than when I'm there specifically to get job lore. The role quests put me to sleep 90% of the time, full stop.

A major complaint of the community these days is the watering down of job identity that I mentioned earlier and while this is almost entirely due to boring homogenous rotations, I feel the removal of job quests for role quests back in Shadowbringers has only compounded this issue now that we are at the "breaking point". So I say we should bring them back, simple as. Thoughts?

I would love to see them come back as a lot of job (and even class) NPCs from those quests are some of my favorite ones and I liked hanging out with them doing stuff.

I wouldn't like to have to do a bunch of useless, boring, unvoiced quests and solo duties just to unlock a necessary skill

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Originally Posted by Alicie

I wouldn't like to have to do a bunch of useless, boring, unvoiced quests and solo duties just to unlock a necessary skill

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And that's fine, we don't HAVE to gate skills behind them. Role quests don't do that after all, just bring them back for people who want to do them for fun and gate dyeing AF armor behind them like role quests, easy.

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Originally Posted by Selsix

And that's fine, we don't HAVE to gate skills behind them. Role quests don't do that after all, just bring them back for people who want to do them for fun and gate dyeing AF armor behind them like role quests, easy.

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Aye, even when it came to skills I don't recall them locking anything beyond level 70, so even the Shadowbringers job quests had already abandoned the idea with Stormblood doing it all of ONE time. Retooling skills to just all be gained with levels would probably be easy enough and preferable anyway.