Quote Originally Posted by Lithera View Post
Since no one has gotten it exactly right...

Vanilla FFXI had 12 jobs
Summoner launched 1 or 2 patches before Zilart release with just Carbuncle.
Zilart brought SAM NIN DRG
CoP Nada
ToAU BLU COR PUP
Wings SCH DNC
SoA RUN GEO
That's 23 jobs, last i checked FFXI still has 22.

I seem to remember reading in Elmer the Pointy's history that Summoner was a pre-Zilart release and I'm pretty sure Zilart was Samurai/Ninja/Dragoon. My guess is it was 11 at release with Summoner the 12th just before Zilart. Which would mean up until Zilart Summoner only had its nuclear squirrel (all the avatar battles - i think, it's been a while - take place in Zilart areas except Diablos (CoP) and Alexander/Odin (ToAU)).