Favorite Job Storylines from a lore standpoint

[Enkidoh]

Personally, from just the starting quest for MCH I think it's origin story is a cop-out though, especially as the 'Job' isn't really being created from 'scratch' as it might appear at first, given Rosenthal has been a Musketeer since before the Calamity (and MSK was long planned to be an actual Discipline of War in the game - it's class logo and Guild even exist in ARR!). Really the only thing being 'created from scratch' with MCH is the use of the turret - the gun skills have long been used in Limsa Lominsa, and all that is being done is the Soul Crystal will be filled with Stephinian's new theories and ideas on automatons and enhancing the gun. May I be proven wrong by later quests once I finally get around to levelling the Job!

The level 50-60 SMN Job quests were probably the most interesting to me, given they reveal a fair bit about the true nature of the Ascians, something which the main storyline has continuously side stepped (that and it also features Y'shtola's sister as well ). The PLD quests sadly were a major let down, It seemed to have well and truly ran off the rails past 50, and the whole resolution to the crisis was such a deus ex machina moment I was left face palming by the end. So yeah, SMN was definitely my favourite so far.

[FJerome]

Personally, from just the starting quest for MCH I think it's origin story is a cop-out though, especially as the 'Job' isn't really being created from 'scratch' as it might appear at first, given Rosenthal has been a Musketeer since before the Calamity (and MSK was long planned to be an actual Discipline of War in the game - it's class logo and Guild even exist in ARR!). Really the only thing being 'created from scratch' with MCH is the use of the turret - the gun skills have long been used in Limsa Lominsa, and all that is being done is the Soul Crystal will be filled with Stephinian's new theories and ideas on automatons and enhancing the gun. May I be proven wrong by later quests once I finally get around to levelling the Job!

It's going to continue to take a lot from Musketeer, it's just that it does it in the same way as Thaumaturge vs Black Mage or Archer vs Bard. The WoL Machinist is creating something new in the way that the first three Sultansworn created something new out of existing Gladiator practices.