Guess that Machinist Job Story!

ya 2.5 Part 2 waiting is getting on edge for 3.0 so....

What do you think the Machinist story will be about and/or focus on?

Much as I would enjoy going into Astrologian Job Story, I see Machinist having a more interesting theme to its storyline considering Machinist use Magitek as their main source of skills from creating mods for the Gun to creating Magitek Drones for support. Eorzea is still in their early years of developing Magitek so there is only a small handful of Magitek in Eorzea's daily life.

So my best guess for Machinist Job story is that it may focus on how Eorzea is handling their development into Magitek and how people handle the introduction of Magitek to their life.

Probably gonna involve a Garlean engineer who left the Empire under questionable circumstances. The story will revolve around his creations being misused and the adventurer helping him keep things under control while teaching him about the job.

I would have it be a machinist from Ishgard that wants to build machines to fight against dragons. The older generation of ishgardians and many of his fellow engineers don't think they're very useful compared to tried and true methods, so his story revolves around using his machines in unpredictable ways to change people's attitudes towards his inventions. He might fail a few times but it never stops him from pushing forward and innovating.

Calling it now: Cid will be involved with the Machinist storyline, and Nero with the Dark Knight.

Make Cid more relevant again, a class that he created to fight evil :D

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Originally Posted by dragonkyn20

Probably gonna involve a Garlean engineer who left the Empire under questionable circumstances. The story will revolve around his creations being misused and the adventurer helping him keep things under control while teaching him about the job.

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In some kind of way this may happen but it certain would be interesting if this kind of event lead to Machinist's lvl 60 Job Quest boss to be Proto-Ultima. :)

Sadly doubt it would happen since Job Quest is about teaching our character about the Job we will be playing as. Still a encounter with a Garlean Engineer as our Job rival is one possibility.

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Originally Posted by Lukha

Calling it now: Cid will be involved with the Machinist storyline, and Nero with the Dark Knight.

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Originally Posted by Ghastly

Make Cid more relevant again, a class that he created to fight evil :D

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Cid and Nero are probably too busy finding the next 24 member Raid to help us with Machinist nor Dark Knight Job. :p

or getting our own Personal Airship ready for us.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/...zdxvlsc9lu.jpg

(Darn can't wait to get my hands on my own Personal Airship Flying Mount.)

On that note: we will most likeyl see Cid, and maybe Nero, again in 3.0 Main Scenario.

I will be gleeful if it involves a blonde midlander named "Mustadio"

why do you keep doing this?

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Originally Posted by Phafi

why do you keep doing this?

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Because it is a General Discussion section?

On Serious note:

Because it is one way to pass time as we all wait for 3.0.

Not to mention gives a few insight into how different people feel things may go with certain aspects of the future storyline.

Also, we need more thinking discussion topics in the General Discussion Section to generally discuss about. There a bunch of QQ, rage, and boohoo topics spawning everyday already and any more of those SE might as well turn "General Discussions" into "General QQ and Rage"

I hope an NPC involved in the Machinist questline is a blonde, fancily-dressed midlander named Edgar. Either that, or one of our abilities is a Cone or Targeted AoE called "Auto-Crossbow".

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Originally Posted by Phafi

why do you keep doing this?

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mayb hes just excited for all the new content coming in 3.0??

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I hope an NPC involved in the Machinist questline is a blonde, fancily-dressed midlander named Edgar. Either that, or one of our abilities is a Cone or Targeted AoE called "Auto-Crossbow".

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Pray this doesn't happen. Putting Edgar and Thancred within any kind of proximity of one other will create a singularity of laschivity, and no woman in Eorzea would ever be able to get anything done again.

Either that, or they cancel each other out and abrupt turn gay for each other, and both are never heard from again.

I hope the name of the NPC that hands/is handed job quests will be either Irvine or Laguna.
Or Vincent.
Or Edgar.
Or Balthier.

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Originally Posted by Lukha

Calling it now: Cid will be involved with the Machinist storyline, and Nero with the Dark Knight.

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And Astrologist crying in the corner of every cutscene.

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Originally Posted by Lilyarel

And Astrologist crying in the corner of every cutscene.

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They will most likely be looking up at the stars at night to care about things. :p

I think Orran would take issue with your assertation. Who didn't have a wtf moment the first time they saw galaxy stop?

I expect mechanist story to revolve around Ishgardian mechanics, probably some upstart trying to develop pocket cannon options as opposed to the huge bertha cannons they are always lugging around.

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Originally Posted by Lollie

I expect mechanist story to revolve around Ishgardian mechanics, probably some upstart trying to develop pocket cannon options as opposed to the huge bertha cannons they are always lugging around.

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While possible, I think the story may go more towards Garlond Ironworks and their development of Magitek in Eorzea. Not all the new places for 3.0 were announced after all and it is possible we may gain access to Garlond Ironworks HQ or meet a high ranking Engineer from Garlond Ironworks to be our Job Trainer.

Well if you wanted a friendly debate rather than just an open speculation thread...
It is unlikely this will be a Garlond Ironworks job beacuse:
They don't like making and distributing weapons as part of their priciples, even though they will in extremely special circumstances.
They lack the facilities and tools to create magitek equipment at this point, everything they have done is either enhance or repair work.
Nowhere, to my knowledge, was it stated the gun and pet are magitek items, which is a very specific branch of engineering.

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Well like I said it is only one possible outcome I can guess. Garlean Ironworks is one of the few places that can have access to technology a Machinist may have.

Not many places in Eorzea currently has the knowledge to create advance technology themed like the drones the Machinist will be able to summon.

On topic of Drones:

I'm still trying to guess how Drones may work but hopefully the Drones are balanced out on things. I would prefer if Drone's don't have HP and only remain in the field for a certain amount of time due to some boss fights being AoE Happy bosses (not to mention how AoE Happy Endgame raid bosses are) which could easily destroy a lot of Drones if those are given HP. This would certainly cause issues with preventing Machinist from being effective due to drones dying too much.

I also heard the drones may be stationary so placement seems vital for maximum effectiveness for drones.

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You missed my point, you can only think of one path, yet ask for others' ideas and later dispute them even though all of the have their support and faults in reasoning for speculation. Guns and flying contraptions are not unique to magitek, far from it actually, which is your sole support for it being a garlean based job and no other foreseeable option. Magitek is more derived from its alternative more effecient power sources than anything else. Are you right? maybe, are there other possibilites the don't use your idea? Most definatly. Posibillity is the beauty of speculation, it allows us to hype each other up with possibilities others may not have considdered. Critiquing that just kills the fun.

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Like I said it is only one thing I see as possible outcome. I have considered Ishgard being involved with machinist but that only my second place in possible outcomes due to Ishgard being one of the themes for 3.0.

With little info we know about Machinist's lore in FF14 I just put together the possible places that they may be involved being Ironworks, Ishgard engineer development of a Handcannon, Limsa Lomensa since Blacksmithing does have a lore saying they advanced their skills far enough to develop guns, and something involving Goldsmithing and their advncement with their Automatons.

I placed Ironworks as my highest possible outcome due to how they do produce weapons and armor to help Eorzea as a means to fight against the constant attack they faced at the hands of the Garlean Empire but don't produce the level of weapons and armor that can be abused for tyrannical means. "freedom through technology" is their motto but sometimes freedom can only be gained with possible means to defend themselves.

Though the other scenarios I thought about are currently missing some things such as how does the development of the Drones for Machinists comes into play. However, it is possible all of these are involved since with a possible lvl 1 to 60 storyline we may be going to these places to advance our knowledge of Machinists similar to how other Jobs takes us to different places to gain our new Job powers.

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Originally Posted by Lollie

As far as the pet goes even if it is temporarilly or permanently stationary I doubt that will be an issue. Don't see many smn/sch move their pets around mush either in movement intesive fights, and they will probably have enough hp to make up for the "well anything with half a brain would move out the way" factor.

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Hopefully but I still remain a bit concerned. Until farther info about the Drones are out I'll take things with a bit of caution. If Drones do have HP I hope they have atleast a repair skill for Machinist since there is a limit to how many hits a pet can take and losing a pet for SMN/SCH has mostly been a big MP drain and Healer or DPS rate drop for them sometimes until they get their Pet back into the fight.

You missed my point, you can only think of one path, yet ask for others' ideas and later dispute them even though all of the have their support and faults in reasoning for speculation. Guns and flying contraptions are not unique to magitek, far from it actually, which is your sole support for it being a garlean based job and no other foreseeable option. Magitek is more derived from its alternative more effecient power sources than anything else. Are you right? maybe, are there other possibilites the don't use your idea? Most definatly. Posibillity is the beauty of speculation, it allows us to hype each other up with possibilities others may not have considdered. Critiquing that just kills the fun.

As far as the pet goes even if it is temporarilly or permanently stationary I doubt that will be an issue. Don't see many smn/sch move their pets around mush either in movement intesive fights, and they will probably have enough hp to make up for the "well anything with half a brain would move out the way" factor.

meh might as well say all of the above is possible, to keep my response short, since if they follow a lvl 1 to 60 storyline then their plenty of room for all those things to fit in.

Though I would question the personality of our Job Trainer.

It would be a bit fun if our Job trainer had a little Mad Scientist personality to it.

Then comes the question of our Job Rival, if we get a Machinist Job Rival.

I really hope it deals with garleans somehow

The machines you'll get to use do look like they are powered by ceruleum which would point to either garlond ironworks or another garlean engineer.

Cids dad comes back from the dead and Cid gets really happy and then after he infuses his soul into the Machinist job crystal Cid says you're his father and you cry.

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Originally Posted by ZanzhizExaverion

Cids dad comes back from the dead and Cid gets really happy and then after he infuses his soul into the Machinist job crystal Cid says you're his father and you cry.

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That would be a interesting twist in the Machinist Job Storyline.

Having our Machinist Mentor remain unknown by name and use a alias throughout level 1 to level 55 Job Quests and when another Major NPC to the Machinist job story ask us where we learned our Machinist skills we then explain this mysterious person taught us. Then at the end of Machinist Job question in lvl 60 we finally get to meet up with Cid in the Job Storyline after level through 1 to 60 but only to stop this mysterious person from activating a dangerous device. At the end of the lvl 60 Job quest the mysterious person then reveals he is the ghost of Cid's dad, or at least a phantom born form Cid's father regrets during the final moments of his life, and at that final moment this phantom tells Cid his fathers final words and a bunch of other feel train moments ending with a final good bye and how he is free from his obsession and can finally find peace leaving behind only a Machinist Soulstone that Cid's father once used.

(but this is all just a assumption and my imagination going wild :p. I'm not joking a plot twist that our mentor was actually a phantom of Cid's father does sound interesting.)

Though I do hope the Job story proves to be a interesting one. Though the craziest ideal I can think up is if the ending of Machinist Job storyline was to prevent our Machinist Job Rival from activating a Proto-Ultima Weapon he or she created or found. Even more crazy if we have to fight a Proto-Ultima Weapon as the Final boss of the Machinist Job Storyline in a Solo Instance Job Fight.