Requesting Information on Jobs: Preparing for 1.21

[Murugan]

It's possible. I am known to over think things. But there have been several sources (a few I couldn't find in the translations thread from a long while ago by yoshida and a few vague clues I found in the same location) That lead me to believe that, even if a class isn't locked to only the sub classes abilities for cross classing, the sub class is definately intended to help the job with some of it's basic abilities.





The one I couldn't remember I believe was from Yoshida, I looked hard for the source but couldn't find it. But he said something along the lines of "to unlock, say warrior. you would have marauder 30 and gladiator 15 to have the abilities from gladiator". Weather that means your locked to GLA only or not who knows.

My guess is he was responding to the first part.

We have 10 cross class abilities, we get 6 job abilities, that leaves us with 4 cross class abilities. I don't see why they would lock them to only the classes that unlock the job, so I assume the simplest explanation is the right one.

[Serenity]

My guess is he was responding to the first part.

We have 10 cross class abilities, we get 6 job abilities, that leaves us with 4 cross class abilities. I don't see why they would lock them to only the classes that unlock the job, so I assume the simplest explanation is the right one.

I'm just speculating with everyone else (also, it's 5 job abilities so 5 cross class's available).

I guess for me though, the trade off of the job stones in a balance sense (both from passive traits gained and abilities from job stones) would be to lose versatility. Allowing 5 free slots aside from the 5 job abilities I don't feel is enough of a detraction for all that you're gaining. I also don't feel that allowing all jobs(not classes) to set cure, second wind, Invigorate, blood for blood, and Chameleon helps preserve the jobs focus.

Based on what has been said by SE, I see classes as a solo/smallgroup versatile option where as jobs are Focused party roles. Ex. Warrior loses the ability to use Cure and second wind to maximize hate/tanking and damage, while passing the healing responsibilities onto the more potent WHM healer. But again that's just my personal opinion.

I found the comment by Yoshida I was looking for:

EDIT:

JPGAMES.DE, Michael: Recently you mentioned combined jobs, what can you tell us about it and what jobs could that be?

Yoshida Naoki: The requirement to get these jobs is to do a job quest, but to do a job quest, there is a special requirement too. If you want to become a paladin, you need to have a class level 30 of gladiator and 15 of marauder. Then you can apply to this job quest and then, if you complete it, you can unlock that job, so it is not really like combining classes. It is more like a requirement.


For example, paladin will be a really special job for tanking. To make sure that he gets those abilities, he will need do more different quests to get those abilities. You are going to protect others, but that’s not all. You have the marauder as a background class before you become a paladin. Those kind of class abilities will be connected to the paladin job. Even if you had more classes in the past, these are not related to the paladin and can’t be used.

Despite the required classes from his example not being the actual requirement, it is clear to me he's saying that the class abilities from the sub class will be used for the job.