Making Class Guilds Relevant Again: Class Dailies

This was born s a Reddit conversation that gathered a bit of traction and I wanted to throw the idea out here and see if it gathered any attention. I'm also not entirely sure this is in the right place, and I apologize if it isn't.

Classes are, more or less, seen as the tutorial for how a job is played, and once the soul crystal is obtained the class is discarded. And when that happens, the guild you worked for for the first thirty levels is basically forgotten. What we came up with in this discussion was another kind of daily quest, not unlike Beast Tribe dailies or GC supply and provisioning missions.

Class Dailies would be given by either a Guildmaster or Guild Receptionist st some point after the Level 30 quest. Since each Guild has an area of service to their community the variety of quests already exists: Mealvaan's Gate would do daily quests involving smugglers or processing inventory, while Arrzaneth Ossuary would involve work with quelling undeath or preparing funerary rites.

Also, like Beast Tribe quests, the main rewards for building up a career of service to a guild would be primarily vanity items. Guild-related gear for glamours, minions, furniture and so on.

The idea is born out of two related desires. First, to reconnect with these characters who were such a big part of our early days in the game like Sylphie or K'lyhia. Second, to reconnect these parts of Erozea with characters. I still pop in on Maelvaan's Gate from time to time and wish dearly that there was some hustle and bustle there, because that's a meaningful place in the game world for me.

Although your idea is interesting, personally I think you've gotten confused about the actual role the class Guilds play - they're not employment agencies for that class (that's what the Adventurer's Guild is for), but think of them more as a school for that class. You join them as a freshman (level 1), and you work your way up the levels, rather like grades, undertaking quests which teach you about the class and how to use them effectively in battle, essentially education in that class.

Once you reach level 30 and complete the final class for the Guild, you've basically 'graduated' from them, and proceed to the 'higher education' in the form of a Job. The Guildmasters even tell you that there is nothing more that they can teach you and that you have to find your way yourself.

So yeah, although I understand where you're coming from, there is a reason why the Guilds seem to disappear into obscurity after you gain a Job - you've basically graduated from them and that they have nothing more to give you.

But they have duties other than just training you, and those duties are fantastic ways to keep you engaged. Mealvaan's Gate, for instance, doesn't just train Arcanists but also is the customs agency for Limsa. The Adventurer's Guild hooks you up with them like a temp agency and once they train you, you leave. But there still are smugglers and lost cargo to handle.

Sounds like a nice idea, plus I would like to meet a few npc again that were part of the class quests

This is a great idea! I'm looking forward to the new Beast Tribe daily quests, but as awesome as those have been I think I would enjoy other kinds of factions more than Beast Tribes at this point. We need some variety.

It's also been more than a year since any new Daily quests were added and I would love to see them implemented at a better rate so we always have some kind of reputation to work toward. As it stands, its been a year since I bothered with dailies since my reputation with all the tribes has been capped.

I like this idea...
especially if I can /dance with the ACN guild leader.. cmon let's do this

Seems like a good idea, could be a way to also implement quests for each class, to try to teach them the core mechanics of their role.

I would love to bust out the old stabbers and go on a good old pirate hunt with the rouge's guild again.

Be like the Assassin Contracts in Assassin's Creed, the Fixer Contracts in Watch Dogs, or Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood quest lines.

Maybe a small pay out or a share of the Guild's spoils. (And maybe a finger sandwich or two? Seems like they never have enough to share with me. T_T)

I would do anything for V'kebbe from the Rogue's Guild. I think this would be a cool addition (and it might also be a way to leverage the unused Musketeer's guild in Limsa Lominsa as well).

I'd like to see something done with the actual arena in Ul'dah, myself. Why go out to Moistbone for gladiatorial events?

I like this. We could help train the others at the guilds for a small reward and a lot of lore development potential.

I would be SO HAPPY if SQEX introduced something like this. My all-time favorite character from FFXIV and what made me change to a femroe is Thubyrgeim, the Arcanist acting guildmaster, and I would rejoice if I could have quests with her.

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I'd like to see something done with the actual arena in Ul'dah, myself. Why go out to Moistbone for gladiatorial events?

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Yess I always wanted that in EQ Freeport arena haha that would be awesome

I like the idea of class quests too. just more things to do. never a bad thing and rewards make it worth it if you want it but if you dont do it you arent missing anything crazy important or "needed"

I want more ACN storylines

i think this is a great idea. i would do it basically the exact same way as beastmen dailies. i would NOT restrict this to the class, i would split it half way where you can get tasks from them even if you are a different class/job but if it's your guild you can get bonus quests.

also, no more dailies please. make them use leves or let them build up a different weekly allowance. dailies are too restrictive.

I was thinking about rewards. I don't know what most class mounts would be but they need to exist because I want to ride around on a giant Carbuncle.

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I was thinking about rewards. I don't know what most class mounts would be but they need to exist because I want to ride around on a giant Carbuncle.

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Only if doing Rouge Quest will like me Fly Around Dravania on a Giant Crow/Hawk/Owl. Then the REAL Naruto references can begin.

Rather than dailies, it would be nice to see guilds as some sort of "grand company" where you could progress through ranks, while doing solo trials (extended tutorial) or after reaching certain rank some sort of mentoring to help players get better.

This is a pretty good idea, I loved my Conjurer quests and I love E-Sumi-Yan. I would love to help out the Conjurer's guild again ^^.

Hopefully enough people can get behind this for the devs to recognise this idea :D.

I wouldn't mind. Fighting stuff with Jacke and the Rogue's guild again, defending nature with E-Sumi-Yan, kicking ass out of the criminals with Mylla again, I'd enjoy it!

Reading through this, it makes me question, if you guys are just looking for more class quests? What do you guys imagine getting out of it? exp? equip? mount?

Honestly, I'd just like the chance to follow up and learn a little more about the npcs in the class quest. I don't really want dailies as those can be a little shallow, but I'd like something like the mog mail quest. It'll just be nice to see some of the npcs and what they're doing now.

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Reading through this, it makes me question, if you guys are just looking for more class quests? What do you guys imagine getting out of it? exp? equip? mount?

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Exp, Gil/Tomes, and Lulz mostly for me.

I bet some kind of Achievement could be made. Maybe even some unique Glamours.

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Reading through this, it makes me question, if you guys are just looking for more class quests? What do you guys imagine getting out of it? exp? equip? mount?

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any and all of those are fine.

if it has repeatable quest features, you would get XP and Seals, you can also get crafting mats like how the Ixal dailies does Ehcatl Sealants.

you would definitely get access to class specific mounts, bardings and minions. probably still have to pay gil for them like Beastmen Daily mounts.

i wouldn't mind class specific glamours either but glamours is more of a job thing. besides Rogue/Thief the other Classes don't have iconic appearances.

This is an awesome idea !

Plus it could help teach new player how their class work !
But it has to be worthy in term of exp gain or special token to get class-specific gear (with good stat or good glamour purpose)

I'd like to help Holyfist training some neophites and... bringing him booze, maybe. Great fella, that part was more enjoyable than MNK's quests until HW.

Posting again here, totally pro class dailies.

I like this idea in addition to the Beast Tribe Dailies. Daily quests from your class guild would be a nice way to reconnect and revitalize some areas. That said, I think it needs to be limited to your 'primary' guild. Allow you to change that primary guild once every 24 hours if you want some variety, but I think it needs to be held at one guild per day.

While they are at it, perhaps they could come up with something more meaningful from the Grand Companies than the usual GC Leves....

I like this idea, but please, please, please not a daily. Weekly would be nice though.