Where is the petition for jobs to start at level 1?

[Manafont]

As title says, lets make the game better. Jobs starting at level 1 = better for the community and new players.
You can raise the experience needed to level once they hit 25 which will make mid level items more useful instead of "why buy anything i'm going to out level it quickly", lets make the Job 25 tnl 100k and go from there?

[Jynx]

It's not going to happen end of story, the Job system is designed as a specialization field rather than a entirely new class alltogether.

Learning new skills via quests is acceptable to me personally. I wouldn't mind leveling them up from scratch but Yoshida has been extremly clear that the jobs will not require ranking up as they are attatched to your current class ranks. The community as a whole has had next to no real complaints about it either.

[Sephrick]

Jobs aren't new classes, they're just specialties of the existing classes. This horse is soup by now.

[Jinko]

Jobs will have the majority of skills we have on the main class so there is absolutely no point in this.

We may get a few extra skills from quests but its not going to take a genius to figure out what does what.

I like the idea of learning skill via quest also.

[Nuru]

Are you mad?

Really though, I wouldn't mind the Jobs having their own separate levels, but there just isn't much to do during mid levels that would make 100k+ anywhere near reasonable.

Besides, they may not have levels to progress the jobs, but they will be having quests to obtain certain abilities. I say let the man do his work, and then we can provide feedback. We really have no clue how this works yet. To comment your remark about equipment.. Well the only thing you would have to worry about is the weapon, some gear is shared between classes and thats why people keep them, but the weapon is tied to a single class, unlike FFXI. That was probably your concern, which it is inevitable that it would ever change.

Also, adding more grinds isn't going to "make the game better." If you haven't noticed, the game is a grindfest as it is.

[Endemerrin]

I disagree. As stated above, they're not entirely new "classes" - they're specializations. What they have planned is fine in my opinion.

[ellohwell]

Manafont, wake up and smell the year 2011. Not everything has to have a level, you know? Not everything about a FF game has to be about seeing numbers get bigger.

Working from first-principles, it doesnt even make sense to have jobs level up in the traditional sense (i.e., in the same way you level classes). Jobs aren't something to be levelled. They are supposed to facilitate a specialisation/playstyle within the parent class, so to level them on top of levelling classes is just a hassle when it comes down to the practicality of it.

There will still be a progression system for jobs anyway but it wont be grind-based.

[Treach]

Jobs aren't new classes, they're just specialties of the existing classes. This horse is soup by now.

omg horse soup? I CAN HAS??

[Ventus]

Jobs aren't new classes, they're just specialties of the existing classes. This horse is
GLUE by now.

Makes more sense in the context of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" =P

[Manafont]

Yay quest to get 4-5 skills. Quest wont take long. i will have every job/skill. I will easily beat the new dungeons and garuda. and then what? JOBS are supposed to be for groups. so why shouldn't you have to level them up cause i'm sure they are going to be used way more than classes.