New Job System Incoming!!! - But what does this mean??

[Cairdeas]

I think that all in all, the whole class and job system that is in place right now should just be completely overhauled. Scrap it and put another one in place. The current system just needs a good replacing.

I disagree, I like the openness and the ability to restructure yourself to any pattern you prefer. Adding the Job System on top as simply a way to receive a bonus for following a defined path but still allow a user to experiment and control what they have equipped when it comes to skills would be an awesome idea, and one that doesn't really exist currently in MMO space as far as I know or remember.

[Betelgeuzah]

Why should they if they don't have to?

Some of you would make pretty bad managers to be completely blunt. "We have this structure in place and with proper changes we could make something great out of it... NAAAH, LET THE AXE SWING! NOT MY MONEY LOL"

[AlexiaKidd]

To be honest it doesn't really matter what any of us think as we aren't the target audience. The people who aren't playing the game are the target and if SE feels they need to do something to get those people playing they will do whatever it takes.

[Lerris]

We already have abilities restricted to or optimal for disciple of war or disciple of magic.
Adding a selected job to these restrictions would tie the job system and armory system together nicely.
And perhaps job levels will replace physical levels ( and define the stat point distributions which we currently choose upon leveling up ).

Just speculation of course.

[Frebaut]

Yes. i do believe some of you are way of, others are closer and the DEV Team is right on.

[Abriael]

To be honest it doesn't really matter what any of us think as we aren't the target audience. The people who aren't playing the game are the target and if SE feels they need to do something to get those people playing they will do whatever it takes.

Actually wanting to get people back doesn't mean that current players are out of focus. Alienating the current playerbase in the (definitely not safe) gamble to get back part of the lost customerbase would be a quite silly move.

[Akumu]

HOW ABOUT MIXING CLASS NAMES LIKE IN PHANTASY STAR ONLINE UNIVERSE

GLADIADIN, PUGIEF, CONJUMMONER, BLACKTURGE AND LANGOON

thumbs up if u agree

O god I had to reread this... I seen BLACKTURDE... lmao was a good laugh though

[Alcide]

I knew this is gonna happen, he wrote just job system and we already have 13 pages of speculations D:

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease Yoshi give us some info so we'll have something real to talk about, aside our own fantasies ; ;

[Jinko]

Ok so with more thought heres what my ideal system would be

Jobs: You DO NOT level them seperately

Lets take Thm and Conj for example as what you can do.


At rank 1(in either) You unlock "Black Mage", and "White Mage", depending on which job you use, your get bonus's and penalties in the specialties of them.
At rank 20, you unlock "red mage" doing this allows you to get bonus's in everything, but not as high as if you stayed as a black or white mage job(you still have the option to switch at will)
At 50 you unlock X job(dont wanna think something up) which will have its own specializations tooe

I'm hoping its something like this also, I hope that say for example you specialise as a black mage you no longer can equip white mage spells at all.

[AlexiaKidd]

Actually wanting to get people back doesn't mean that current players are out of focus. Alienating the current playerbase in the (definitely not safe) gamble to get back part of the lost customerbase would be a quite silly move.

While that is true if SE believe that by doing something they will gain a million new players but it might risk losing some of the current 30k players, I don't think it would take long for them to make a decision which way they would go.

I am very interested to see what this new job system will be but I hope they will not do half a job of it because they are scared of what the current player base will think because it will effect there progress. I just can not see how the armoury system in it's current state with being able to cross class everything can work. They will need to make some pretty big restrictions somewhere.

Also traditional jobs how can they do it within the current classes. Take CON for example it's basically WHM and BLM in one. So if you get CON to say R50 and get given then gain access to WHM and BLM, what can they do to make those 2 better than CON. CON already has access to ancient magic, so would BLM's only benefit be make it nuke for more?? There has to be some sort of trade off and it will be interesting to see how they do it.