8.0 job discussion

[Valence]

I'd dig that. Would give a nice bit of flexibility.

Still would do nothing at all for the quality of each individual job, though. It'd just be a matter of having more jobs without the increasingly large grind requirement to have access to all options.

I do think plenty of people would be more interested in tanking if they didn't have to be one of three flavors of swordsman or an axe-oaf, or to level a healer beyond just SCH if they could actually get a more fun job bundled in for outside of instant-queue group content whenever they want.

Would be worthwhile, imo, even if... a ton of work... and with fewer sales beats per development hour than the typical new jobs per expansion.

To be honest they wouldn't have to bring two role variants for each job at once (which would be what, 42 new sub jobs?). That could happen over time. And some jobs may just not translate well at all into healer/tank/dps either.

[Shurrikhan]

To be honest they wouldn't have to bring two role variants for each job at once (which would be what, 42 new sub jobs?). That could happen over time. And some jobs may just not translate well at all into healer/tank/dps either.

Fair, as long as we're not worried about anyone crying foul for some getting the job "for free" while others would still have to level it. Which, yeah, we'd have to if implementing this.

Anywho, though, here's a still more heretical (even if not entirely serious) idea for yah:

Have all the Primary Stats matter, give the base toolkits massively more available versatility, and allow further customization via a Junction system. You'd have to meet certain minimum throughputs via some manner of Proving Grounds to queue up as a given role on a certain job, but Mind-heavy Support Monk, Int-heavy Storm Mage Conjurer or MND>INT>STR=VIT Earth Warden Conjurer, etc., would all be things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯