Job Quests NEED to be Mandatory.

[Merp0fc]

My main point was more so focused on the fact that I didn't have Lustrate in a level 44 dungeon from my level 45 job quest.. even under geared, it would've been leagues easier with Lustrate. I also said MULTIPLE times that there WERE gearing issues. It's not about the stats, It's about the abilities that are tied to doing your job quests. Staying "up to gear" while playing through msq is honestly a pain if you don't have enough gil to throw at the market board or are a sprout that doesn't know of resources to like Universalis.

The point of the thread was to start a discussion on better solutions to the issue instead of arguing over stats. ARR's gearing system is just bad, whilst leveling (since iL at level 50 can literally BE iL 50-130ish and most sprouts don't know about tome gear yet)
but the gearing issue can be worked around with small pulls as long as one has all of their abilities. Just because YOU CAN do a dungeon without your job crystal doesn't mean you SHOULD. It's not about the stat increase it's about having the extra heals, mitigations, or even DPS abilities. There's too many factors to argue about this class, level, here or there or whatever.

While most of it is a gearing issue, there's no reason you shouldn't HAVE to have access to all of your abilities at that level, as they're literally integral to your class.

[TaleraRistain]

My main point was more so focused on the fact that I didn't have Lustrate in a level 44 dungeon from my level 45 job quest.. even under geared, it would've been leagues easier with Lustrate.

You wouldn't have it even if you did your job quest. The dungeon is below the level where it unlocks. If your issue is that Dzemael is 44, that's just the result of the ARR design past the first three dungeons of trying to have an available dungeon every 3 or at max 4 levels. The lower ones were 4 apart and as you went up the higher ones were 3 apart.

Also, what's your actual request? You said in the subject job quests should be mandatory and talk about stones in your OP, but you don't give the conditions. Job stones/quests should be mandatory when doing what? Queueing for specific roulettes? Which ones?