Devs, please make job crystals in lv 31+ content mandatory.

[Tigore]

Just in case it hasn't been said yet, there is one reason why I would use the base class. If it is already stated, apologies. It involves making a custom UI with changing keybinds. We use macros that copies the ability bars from the base class onto another blank un-shared keybind bar. I placed a YouTube link from the source of where I learned about it. I didn't follow it 100%, but I still used the copy ability bar command and the /micon to change the icon appearance to whatever item icon appearance I want. It should work with job spells too if you place quote marks around the spell name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe-Gz_4fZcI

Other than that, I agree with the original post on the random queue requiring a job stone equipped with the proper minimum ilvls.

[rainichan]

There is a caveat to this, the first two trials of any given expansion don't have iLvl requirements, but the third and post-patch trials do, this is very consistent across all expansions, so Ravana and Bismark have no req, but Thordan does, so on, which means you can 100% que for Zodiark as a Gladiator without anything but an Weathered Shortsword and not a single other piece of gear, so long as your PLD is at least level 83.

Which is truly bizarre to me, since you'd at best be at i530 or thereabouts even with gear from msq quest coffers. Boosting your character from 1 to 80 you'd still be in the Cryptlurker gear from the job boost too, so you'd think they'd... not have that, but it is pretty weird.

Just in case it hasn't been said yet, there is one reason why I would use the base class. If it is already stated, apologies. It involves making a custom UI with changing keybinds. We use macros that copies the ability bars from the base class onto another blank un-shared keybind bar. I placed a YouTube link from the source of where I learned about it. I didn't follow it 100%, but I still used the copy ability bar command and the /micon to change the icon appearance to whatever item icon appearance I want. It should work with job spells too if you place quote marks around the spell name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe-Gz_4fZcI

Other than that, I agree with the original post on the random queue requiring a job stone equipped with the proper minimum ilvls.

This is definitely an outlier thing, so I don't mind not having it auto-equipped, since this is one of those things that could be affected, though I'm sure if it was, for some reason, there'd be a workaround out pretty quickly.