Job System Timeframe

[Koronos]

Well the biggest question is going to be the PLD/GLA one, which is going to be better for tanking the open ended GLA with Emulate, Accomplice, Defender II, Cure III, and Sacrifice III attached to it or GLA which is potentially going to be restricted and not have some of said abilities.

While not the biggest question by far, imo, you do bring up a good point. The jobs must be significantly more useful in a party setting than its corresponding class, otherwise why even implement a new system? This will be true for all jobs, in almost all circumstances where a party of 4+ is required. If this isn't the case, SE will have failed. I do not, however, think that grouping with a normal class will be restricted, beyond however they decide to balance equipping cross-class abilities. Classes will remain useful in solo/small group settings, and I'm sure other circumstantial situations, but endgame (and hopefully effecient sp) will be jobs > classes.

[aizer]

yea agree when soloin things will be the same as they are now pretty much, but for party base content you will be lockout of most other classes/jobs spells/actions unless they work with what role you choose to play, this is to bring in more refined roles to party play. well its the way it seems to me anyways could be wronge tho

[Neptune]

I don't know what "cost assessment" means. Is that an assessment of manpower tradeoffs? I'd like to know.

[LateReg]

If jobs aren't in 1.18, I know a ton of people who won't be playing anymore.

Really a shame if they're not in.

[Elkwood]

If jobs aren't in 1.18, I know a ton of people who won't be playing anymore.

Really a shame if they're not in.

LOL then those ppl best be quitting now because Jobs will not be in 1.18... SE has already said wont be until after the battle changes which is 1.18.

IMO if ppl expect more then 2 Dungeons, 10 Quests, Maybe a mission quest or 2, the start of battle updates, potential nerf of Emulate in 1.18 then they are sadly mistaken because that is all 1.18 is going to be most likely.

[Wynn]

If jobs aren't in 1.18, I know a ton of people who won't be playing anymore.

Really a shame if they're not in.

Those people would need reading comprehension lessons since at no time was it ever said or posted that 1.18 would have jobs in it. In fact, to expect that is pretty unreasonable.

[darkstarpoet1]

Those people would need reading comprehension lessons since at no time was it ever said or posted that 1.18 would have jobs in it. In fact, to expect that is pretty unreasonable.

just one more of the people that left that game did so because of their fault. place blame where it should go. the people that leave this game have left because it was not up to their expectations and continues to underwhelm. no matter how low you set your hopes for 1.18 most people will still be upset that by the end of the summer we will be almost a year from release and it is not massively better. to expect a game to become more fun to play from sept-nov was unreasonable, but by the end of summer we will be close to 1 year.

[Wynn]

just one more of the people that left that game did so because of their fault. place blame where it should go. the people that leave this game have left because it was not up to their expectations and continues to underwhelm. no matter how low you set your hopes for 1.18 most people will still be upset that by the end of the summer we will be almost a year from release and it is not massively better. to expect a game to become more fun to play from sept-nov was unreasonable, but by the end of summer we will be close to 1 year.

You're talking about something completely different, and it is a point that I would agree with. Quitting a game after a year because it is still no fun is understandable. However, raging because a new system was not in a patch when they never said it was going to be there in the first place, and in fact pretty much told us it would NOT be, is unreasonable....

[darkstarpoet1]

You're talking about something completely different, and it is a point that I would agree with. Quitting a game after a year because it is still no fun is understandable. However, raging because a new system was not in a patch when they never said it was going to be there in the first place, and in fact pretty much told us it would NOT be, is unreasonable....

all i was saying is the people that have stuck with this game so far i cannot blame if they leave. if they stayed this long they wanted the game to succeed, but each person has their point in which they give up. i can't say even if someone quit today it was unreasonable because they have played it for months without any significant improvement.

i know that they have no stated this will be in there, but you must also realize that every post asking for anything fun in game was met with wait until after 1.18 responses. with this the defenders of the game have set high expectations for those wanting other things besides auto attack added. those super high expectations are unlikely to be met. me i am more patient and willing to give them until the end of summer and test out what all has been put in and make a decision based off that.

[Evangela]

whatever.... the job system must be sucks anyway because they seem have no summoner