Job Quest Story Line

I'm not normally one to complain but.. Doesn't it seem like SE is a little lazy on the job quests storyline and cs? I wish they were more in-depth and meaningful. Granted I havent finished the very last DRK job quest (or many others), so far it hasnt felt like it was even close to being as good as the last two archs. The Sam job quest was decent. Just wished they put more time into making the stories of the job quests more captivating and worthwhile. Of course, take my opinion with a grain of salt. I only have sam 70 and drk 68 almost 69. But just from what I've seen so far and what I have heard from others, the job quests were a bit lackluster this go around.

O.o really I love them, and I rather have them work on more content than a partial side job quest. Seriously though I doubt most people even go back and go back to view it, maybe for old times sake. Maybe a few not many.

I guess I am in the minority as far as SAM goes, or maybe I'm just a feels sap. I was really captivated by the story of the SAM quest line. Sometimes a story only needs to be simple and not try too hard and have illusions of grandeur and it would still be captivating. I haven't ever leveled a tank so I don't know what stories those are like; but I rather enjoyed the WHM story and to some extent the THM story (only got up to 26 for swiftcast back then.) The PUG story was pretty cool, the MNK story is kinda eh.

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Originally Posted by Yukiba

I'm not normally one to complain but.. Doesn't it seem like SE is a little lazy on the job quests storyline and cs? I wish they were more in-depth and meaningful. Granted I havent finished the very last DRK job quest (or many others), so far it hasnt felt like it was even close to being as good as the last two archs. The Sam job quest was decent. Just wished they put more time into making the stories of the job quests more captivating and worthwhile. Of course, take my opinion with a grain of salt. I only have sam 70 and drk 68 almost 69. But just from what I've seen so far and what I have heard from others, the job quests were a bit lackluster this go around.

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They say the DRK 70 quest is among the best.

I'm glad you find them enjoyable. I really liked the ending to the first arch of DRK (lvl50) Where you face off against *spoilers* ----your inner self. Generally speaking Ive liked most of what I saw in the job quests at 50 and 60. I just wished they put even more effort into them. So far I havent really seen that in this expansion. However, I get that some folks would rather them spend time on playable content. I just like really good stories and dynamic/interesting cutscenes. Its just the kind of thing I enjoy.

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Originally Posted by Lustaria

I guess I am in the minority as far as SAM goes, or maybe I'm just a feels sap...

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I definitely enjoyed the sam job quests. I guess really my only gripe with it is I wish the CS were more dynamic. I was rewatching some of the CS from the past and the angles and representation of certain events were really good. Alot of the CS I have seen in this expansion are from one angle only or just plain face time.. Music, camera angles, etc etc for me give more impact to the story. For instance the very last DRK job quest I just did (57-58) had some really emotional scenes but because its just in an open field and not a cs it feels less impactful. The writing is good, it's just the visual presentation isnt all that pleasing. Worst still, it detracts from the good writing at times. Having said that, I do honestly enjoy SB as a whole. Would just like them to show more love to the job quests in terms of visual presentation. Kinda like Susanoo. Blocking a giant sword was awesome. I would like to see my character do such things in CS format or really emotional heart stabbing scenes showed in a unique way in CS. Give me CS! lol

The WHM was really dumb but I enjoyed the BRD and especially SCH.

I haven't seen them all yet obviously but so far the quality of the SB job quests has felt much higher than the HW ones (with the possible exception of DRK/AST/MCH as I felt their HW quests were excellent already). So many of the previous quests were snoozefests where nothing of value happened, whereas these bring back old characters and have some fights which are occasionally mildly challenging for once.

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Originally Posted by LystAP

They say the DRK 70 quest is among the best.

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I loved everything about it. It's one of my favorite moments in the game now.

The monk 60-70 quest has Hamon Holyfist.... it's pretty much the best ever.

I've only done the WHM and BRD level 70 quests, I really enjoyed both, although they didn't use the whole of SB. BOTH stuck entirely to the fringes...non flying and non story areas the whole time, so your basically in a small section for the entirety of the quests.

Machinist story is great for Hilda fans becuase it is a continuation of 3.0/3.X Ishgard storyline with Hilda now a official member of the Machinist Guild and setting her as a official MCH NPC for future MCH Job storylines.

Alchemist Storyline will be the most valued for players who played 1.0 Ul'dah storyline becuase it is the Conclusion to 1.0 Ul'dah storyline with everyone from 1.0 Ul'dah storyline returning for this Finale.

Summoner... well everyone fravorite Miqo'te Arcanist Teacher makes a return as a official member of Summoner's Job story for now on.

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Originally Posted by Heliantheae

I loved everything about it. It's one of my favorite moments in the game now.

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not ot mention the extreme amount of symbolise 70 DRK Job storyline has and what Myste represents to the WoL just like Fray is WoL's Anger and Hatred. Though by understanding what Myste is that may open up old wounds from certain events back in 3.0 where certain 2 NPCs died.

PLD MSQ was OK, not epic but not bad. I enjoyed the RDM quest and the WHM quest wasn't bad. The side quests this expansion are amazing though. I figured that's what they focused on.

The DRK quests were light years ahead of Dragoon. DRG was painfully weak until the 70 one.

I love the Stormblood PLD quest, but anything would look good after the Heavensward PLD quest.

I did like the dark knight series. I feel 70 was good, but it was something you had to read til the end to appreciate it. I never had an issue with any of the class story. I feel they are all unique and in depth enough for a side story.

I thought the level 70 white mage quest was fantastic. It's one of my favorites.

The final quest was poignant and touching. It was the compelling story of a mother consumed by the fear of losing her child, and how that fear ultimately dictated their lives, and how one's lack of emotional control can lead to self-destruction. And the final battle was fantastic. The demon was terrifying, and the accusations it made were even worse. For a child to have to hear all that and overcome it takes incredible fortitude. It's a message of prevailing over the most intimate of tragedies and their psychological repercussions.

I commend the writers of that story. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

To add to thing Warrior Job storyline was interesting for bring in some comedy as well. Curious Gorge deserve to "finally meet his match"

PLD 60-70 job story was great. ^^

As someone who felt they ruined a lot of the potential with Ishgard by tying it up with such a neat little bow at the end of HW, the MCH quest was absolutely stellar for me. I loved it to bits and how it gave the spotlight to one character from the past expansion that SORELY needed more time in the spotlight.

Finally WAR storyline is at least enjoyable. The prev one (ARR & HW) was boring as heck.

MNK felt like it was building up to a big moment the entire time, only to have a really lackluster fight and no real progress on anything.

I did like that a lot of familiar faces show up in most of the job quests this time around.

Having my Rogue's guild buddies, Princess Yuki, and Karasu all return in the Ninja quests was fun, especially with the latter of them helping in the last fight and making snarky remarks at you the whole way through.

Out of my 70s, I really enjoyed the AST 60-70 storyline. Much better than the 30-50 and 50-60, in my opinion. BRD was meh, and I didn't care for it. But I wasn't too surprised because I haven't liked any of the BRD storylines. RDM was pretty good. And I loved the level 60 SAM quest (SAM just hit 60 today). CUL was cute; didn't pay attention to BOT or MIN or FSH (FSH is 68).

I have heard the 70 DRK quest is on par with the 30-50 storyline. So I am working on her right now between WHM and SAM.

I honestly wasn't a big fan of the AST or SMN storylines for 60-70. I liked the lore potential they offered more than the execution. But that is kind of par for the course for me -- I enjoyed the class quests way more than any job quest in the game.

The RDM was good, SAM seems good so far... WHM was really kinda meh, but so was the HW one so I didn't expect much.

I disliked the PLD quest quite a bit, in fact it was the first time I thought about skipping CS's. Then again, I also dislike everything about SE's messed up PLD lore in this game. I wanted to be a holy knight from a kingdom of knights and honor, like Ishgard, not a pit fighter from the city of coin and greed.

SE should really retcon the lore so PLD's are from Ishgard and BLU are the new sultansworn in 5.0. Not only would both jobs fit their city themes better, but having DRK, PLD, and DRG all from the same kingdom in game would be a nice callback to FFIV's Cecil and Kain.

But that's just my two gil on the subject.

I really, really, REALLY like how a lot of the Job Quests bring back older NPCs. Builds a greater sense of continuity that I just adore.

Thus far my only complaint is the finale of the Summoner Questline. In Heavensward there was a lot of build-up and ceremony, complete with an awesome cutscene where you used Deathflare for the first time in the final quest. Comparatively there's nothing at all to officiate having learned to actually summon Bahamut. Just a frankly rather overlong single-player duty, and then "okay, you learned a thing, done." Was rather anticlimactic, especially after the prior duty facing down an army of Sephirot-egis. Which was a massive[ly annoying] tease just btw.

AST is good because

It hints Geomancer as a job.

Only done the BRD ones and DRK to 65 so far, but I think the DRK ones are fine as is? Maybe it's just because I love the NPCs, but I've found the dialogue hilarious enough to make up for the kind of boring fights, and I appreciated the continued humor so that it doesn't feel like everything is grim and dark. It's also nice to see the return of some NPCs I did not think we'd ever see again.

The BRD ones were... not very interesting at all, and that's about all I have to say about that.

Of the 70's I have so far.

Drk- great, loved it.

Brd- pretty interesting in my opinion.

Pld- pretty meh unless you really enjoyed the gld story.

Nin- it was alright.

Mch- didn't get good until the very last quest.

Fsh- it was pretty dull.

Btn- average.

Min- this one was good. I really liked it.

Crp- pretty enjoyable. I liked it.

I've only done SMN, SCH, and PLD so far. I'm partway through WHM and DRK, and I did the SAM 50-60 story too.

PLD was awful. It has nothing to do with anything about being a paladin, the tournament is boring, and I didn't miss the gladiator characters at all.

SCH was...better than the drill sergeant shenanigans from 50-60 at least, but still not very good. The last fight was great, but I feel like they don't really know what to do being stuck with tonberries all the time.

SMN was good, just not as good as 50-60. The fights were great, the Allagan story was somewhat interesting as it focuses on some history for the job itself, and the talking tome wasn't quite as silly as it could have been. It's just hard to top single-handedly destroying an ascian, and as Zana pointed out earlier it really doesn't seem to have anything to do with learning the final abilities.

SAM 50-60 was actually surprisingly good, and hopefully 60-70 will match it. It's going to be hard for DRK to live up to 30-50, but I'm interested to see.

Well.. finished the DRK 70 quest.. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Wow. Talk about tying all the threads together.. For any interested I went ahead and recorded it because people said it was so good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJQMLz6mOFA

I hope for the next paladin job story they just copy/paste some random Arthurian legend (or the French equivalent which I am forgetting right now) instead of writing a tournament arc that takes place entirely within Ul'dah.

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Originally Posted by EdwinLi

Summoner... well everyone fravorite Miqo'te Arcanist Teacher makes a return as a official member of Summoner's Job story for now on.

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Maybe I missed smth, but I didn't see any mention of K'rhid Tia at all. Could you explain, please ?

The 60 - 70 DRG totally makes up for the disappointing quest line that came before it. I highly recommend doing it if you are a Heavansward enthusiast. As was mentioned the DRK quests are amazing from 30 - 70. The RDM is also really enjoyable as well. I think it really depends on which kinds of stories reach and speak to you.

Do you prefer an adventure story? And introspective and deep story? A story where you become the best or help someone else accomplish thier goals? I've done the majority of the class quests to 60 (my goal is to level all jobs to 70 to see thier stories, yes even SCH) and I find the stories where I help build up other characters as support appeals to me most.