Why I look forward to Limited jobs

[MonsutaMan]

Well, as a former FFXI player, I have not been looking forward to any of the jobs lol. I came into FFXIV kicking and screaming because someone brought it for me. BST is something that will really get me into FFXI because it was the 1st true solo job I played in an mmo.

I tend to play mmo solo, now that I am older. It does not matter to me if the job can raid or not. I will be playing BST solo regardless.

People tend to hate limited jobs. I have not unlock one yet, so I cannot speak on it.

[Zarkovitch]

Limited Jobs are like Anima ARR.
Let's not talked about it and ignore it.

[Brightshadow]

We don't need more limited jobs, what we could use is unique side content for existing jobs, and BLU made into the proper job it deserves to be.

[Jandor]

I will never understand why they had to call the concept as "limited job"? Why not go with "side job" or "sub job" as an XI reference? Needlessly bad marketing as far I'm concerned. Not to mention that it doesn't really explain what the purpose is. At least side job immediately suggests that the content is meant as a side activity. Must be a case of a difference between languages or something. Anyway...

It bugs me as a name because it an incredibly, for lack of a better word, "gamey" term.

Near everything in game has some sort of lore compatible name and reasoning, even if they have to stretch to make it fit, but limited job is purely a technical term that no-one in the FFXIV world would or does ever use and there is never even a flimsy excuse given for why you can't do regular content with it.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Limited Jobs are just the Eureka versions of jobs. Fun to play around with, but ultimately pointless. The biggest issue about it is that these jobs existence is just to provide a minigame, at which point, why not just make these minigames in the GS instead of devoting an entire Job to it that could have been designed for proper gameplay? At least with the GS you get a useful currency, with BLU all you get is Poetics and Allied Seals, which aren't really getting anything new over the patches.

I'm assuming it's meant to be an alternative method for new players to get ARR's Hunt items since everything from ARR can be killed super easily by max leveled players now.

[Auryan]

It bugs me as a name because it an incredibly, for lack of a better word, "gamey" term.

Near everything in game has some sort of lore compatible name and reasoning, even if they have to stretch to make it fit, but limited job is purely a technical term that no-one in the FFXIV world would or does ever use and there is never even a flimsy excuse given for why you can't do regular content with it.

For me it just comes down to the name of the concept not directly referring to what the content is. And you're sorta right with the technical term not widely used. I'm sure most people would prefer just calling BLU...BLU instead of limited job. But like the Disciples, I got the impression that they want to use the term "limited job" as an umbrella term for other potential jobs. And like the Disciples of Magic, Might, Land and Hand, they're all technical terms used for a group of classes/jobs that is used as little more than to describe jobs and their roles. I just would rather them coming up with a snappy name like "Disciples of Lore" than "Limited Job." But that's me being petty.

[Savagelf]

yes all limit jobs are work in progress I like how they going about blue mage I think people misunderstand the term limit job they a lot more detail to blue mage hint they spell book where you have get spell to fight by fight monsters. question does the other combat jobs have access to arena that blue mage has access to.

nor am I doing mental gymnastic to like it. I play more then just world of Warcraft to understand they more to combat jobs that not connect to raid/dungeon. I play other mmorpg such swg and ffxi and other mmo I understood that some combat jobs doesn't have be connect to raids and dungeons

[MonsutaMan]

If you are saying, not all jobs or content have to be connected to raids, I agree with that. You mentioned FFXI, BST was a shinning example of a job that was pretty much a "Limited job" before FFXIV even came into existence. I feel like, not a lot of people may not have played BST, otherwise, they would see that this limited job concept was actually a thing at SE as far back as 2002-ish.

Solo oriented jobs are good to have. I mean, having a thread titled "Tales from the Duty Finder" which pretty much insults the FFXIV populace is not the most inviting thing for new players lol. maybe some folks want to get away from the drama, kick back & relax, doing things at their own leisure.

I think there is a place for solo jobs. Again, I have not played with limited jobs, but from my understanding, it is solo oriented, correct? if so, there is a place for solo jobs, done correctly. Keyword...

[NessaWyvern]

There's a reason why I haven't leveled BLU at all, limited jobs just aren't that appealing. Why level a job that you won't be able to use for most content?
I could use that time leveling a job I would actually use.

[Savagelf]

I think that SE still work out bug for limit jobs give time they come up with more ideal so have suggest doing duel between blue mages. I though use squadron feature with limit jobs so players still can use it in some way get job spell they want. the thing is with limit job such puppetmaster and beast master these job require complex system so make them limited make sense. puppetmaster in ffxi had paper doll which respent your puppet which you could gear up as you see fite. beastmaster I hope will allow us to have beast for ffxiv as permit pets and lvl them on they own leveling and will require the concept beast family and the SE to design feature like possible a stable or place keep the beast. and system my hope is doing some similar to vanilla wow with twisted where pet have quest hub for beastmaster. aswell a quest hub for puppetmaster. I like blue mage to have that too at some point I away felt beastmaster have quest hub of haul break isle would be a good quest hub. the anti tower seem to be a good quest hub for puppetmaster. put so you gain rare blue mage skill in treasure chest would awesome

the wanderer palace would awesome blue mage quests hub

haul breaker isle beast master quest hub plus stables

the anti tower quest hub for puppetmaster and workshop to upgrade one puppet

for example rare pets, rare blue magic totem, rare puppetmaster part could be found treasure chest slash treasure dungeon

also it could instance for player set up thing like target dummy and thing they like