Job Quests: Is that all for this xpac?

[Nixxe]

Are you talking about the job quest at 80 thats a flavor quest, or the role action questline?

If its the former, I think it is lacking and disappointing. While I think the role action quest has its merit, the more tailored job quests I preferred much much more. The level 80 quest seems like it exists to tie up the class quest lines from the previous xpacs and leads me to believe that in future xpacs, theyll be doing the role quests. If that ends up being the case, man, thats crap. It's lazy and bland.

WHM, RDM, and DNC don't seem to wrap up much of anything at all. They just let you catch up with some of the NPCs and give them something to keep them occupied for a bit.

[Losara]

SE likely moved away from job quests because of the increasing number of jobs. Eventually they might have 20+ jobs and if they had to develop 3-4 quests for each one it could take a lot of time that could be used developing other future content.

Even Nintendo may have taken away the global Pokedex in the upcoming Sword & Shield games because they decided it was too much to keep redesigning Pokemon each game going forwards.

I personally liked the resolution of the DRK quest line at least, we may get more job quests but I'm thinking SE will lean towards role quests going forwards which I am OK with too.

[Gula]

DRK was given the most satisfying conclusion we could have gotten imo and I am happy. Absolute k i n o.

[Fynlar]

Even Nintendo may have taken away the global Pokedex in the upcoming Sword & Shield games because they decided it was too much to keep redesigning Pokemon each game going forwards.

They already took away the national dex in 7th gen. What they're doing in 8th gen is outright removing the ability to import mons not in the regional dex.

Which, yeah, is a pretty poor move to make in a collectathon game whose long-term motto has been "gotta catch 'em all". The game will still sell like hotcakes because of what it is, but as far as I'm concerned the backlash they've been getting for this move is completely justified.

They could have put all the mons in the game if they really wanted to; the Switch is more than capable of it and Game Freak has more than enough resources to do it (and people have noticed that it's not completely out of the question that they could be patched in later). What this game is is just yet another victim of the rush to release an incomplete product before Xmas season, an all too common sin in the video game industry in particular.

[Averax]

I guess it's getting a bit difficult for them to keep making individual storylines for each and every job since they've added at least 2 to the game every expansion. Thus the role quests were born to condense their workload.

There are 17 jobs now, up from the original 10. (BLU notwithstanding)

[Kaethra]

It feels like DNC and BLM ended their respective storylines. Everything came to a head and ended in a happily ever after thing.

[Elkanah]

To be fair they could have made job quests for us that took place in the first and made perfect sense.

It would not have been possible for most of the jobs existence in most cases (I know 1.0 is technically a time where PLD and WAR was a quest), but if we're going by Squeenix gobshite of a lore panel:

PLD wouldn't have been established till 969th year of the Astral umbral era.

MNK during the Sixth Astral calamity

NIN wouldn't have been possible outside of Hingashi, the island nation where it came from (which means "East")

WHM wasn't established till the 5th Astral Era

BLM was established at the peak of the Fifth Astral Era off the island of Yafaem

SMN didn't technically come into its own till the Third Astral Era in the early years of the Allagan empire (which they explain in the story lore)

SCH came during the Fifth astral era under the nation of Nym.

MCH wasn't established till 1483 of the Sixth Astral umbral era (which was inspired by their engineers to build the Skysteel Manufactory) during the dragon war.

The famed author of The Five Ages, the Sharlayan sage Lewphon devoted two decades of his life from the year 210 to the year 230 in the Sixth Astral era to form and complete Astrology.

Dark Knight wasn't an established darkness or class until after the 960th Year of the Sixth Astral Umbral era, and takes place in Ishgard after a proud Knight had seen first hand of sexual assault on a child, and slayed the priest (cause lol this is so much like rl these days) before he was banished and stripped of his title as a knight for slaying a Priest of the holy church.


So no, this would not be possible for some jobs. Maybe some others that have no mention (which is a few like DRG and MNK, or BRD for instand), but not these specifically. It's also written history into the Eorzeapedia book Vol I which describes all this for all the jobs and their origins (for the most part).

[EdwinLi]

I expect them to utilize Job NPCs in 6.0 for the 6.0 Role Quest if the 6.0 storyline is a Garlean Empire Civil War theme for the expansion.

Tank Job can focus on having all Tank Job story NPCs involved with a Frontline Combat Storyline in the War.

Physical DPS focus on having all Physcial DPS Jobs as the Assault Squad Storyline in the War.

Magic DPS focus on having the all Magic DPS Jobs NPCs as a Artiliary Squad Storyline.

Healer focus on having all Healer Job NPCs as a Field Medic Squad storyline.

Rap it all up in the 5th quest involving all Job NPCs in a special operation storyline involving a assault on a Enemy Stronghold in this war for a Job Story instance fight concluding with a final battle where the Job NPCs will join in during the middle of the fight and switch places with each other to aid the WoL.

it will also give them a chance to get the Job NPCs to interact with each other and for them to learn how WoL been "cheating" on their Jobs by taking up multiple jobs.

[Dualblade]

The job quests seem to be updates, not long-term resolutions. Summoner isn't even job-focused (it's an update on Arenvald and Fordola, following off the Tale From the Storm with them and the Ul'dahn summoner squad) and the scholar quest progresses its long-running story arc but doesn't complete it.

We may or may not go back to large-scale job quests next time, but they're not being abandoned altogether.

If they do go back to doing even the SB version of job quests (X0, X3, X5, X8, and xpac cap) then DRK also looks like it might be going back to following Sidgurd and Rielle, possibly with an updated character model for the latter. Probably not, but they do at least reference that she should start gaining a lot of height soon like the twins would be if we ever went beyond the time bubble.

[Reimmi]

As more jobs get added it just makes the job quest more and more work load
eventually they were gonna have to do something different, and tbh the job quests weren't as good in stormblood anyway, other than warrior