Job System

[Onidemon]

I can live with no personal spaces (Houses),
I can live with no mail (Barely...),
I COULD live with the job system again after XI...
I COULDN'T live with having to go back to town just to switch from Archer to Pugilist!

Has ANYONE got any info on this? got a feeling I just missed out a Lodestone post or 2, my Anima sucks as it is and I don't fancy having to call a chocobo (assuming we'll be able to call them...) just to go get a change of job...

Hopefully it'll just be a Menu option but I doubt I'll get that lucky...

Thanks in advance, to anyone posting useful information anyway...

You won't need to go anywhere to change jobs. As of now it is 1 class = 1 job. Changing classes only requires changing weapons and jobs will not be like jobs in FFXI but more like talent trees from WOW(no u wont assign points) as it will give your class a specialty. Glad will have a paladin job which will grant you additional abilities, traits and the ability to equip paladin gear all to enhance the tanking skills of your Gladiator. You unlock it after doing a quest and i guess it will stick to your class whenever you are on that class.

[Zanfire]

^ the thing is, that will change and they already said it will happen (they mentioned the THM + CON = RDM example) so what they do here will determine how that works too. Im pretty sure they wont suddenly re-adjust the whole system when those come into play.

[Estellios]

It could be as simple as "if you are on a class that unlocks this job you can change to it"

[Choyi]

I find it more likely its something you can switch into via the abilities and traits menu as mentioned in a previous post.

[Felis]

I COULDN'T live with having to go back to town just to switch from Archer to Pugilist!

Only if you have no Pugilist weapon in your inventory
The change from Archer to Pugilist is still the armory system.
I think to de/activate the job on a class is a menu thing and not a location thing

[captainpicard]

Rest assured, whatever it is, it will be convoluted and not intuitive.

[SirThesd]

lets see if I've got this right...

So theres the Class, then the job to make it better at a certain thing.
The level stays the same as the Class.
You have an option to switch between the jobs as long as your the class that its branched from.

That right in a nutshell?

[Estellios]

lets see if I've got this right...

So theres the Class, then the job to make it better at a certain thing.
The level stays the same as the Class.
You have an option to switch between the jobs as long as your the class that its branched from.

That right in a nutshell?

Another detail is that Jobs will be extremely limited, but make you really good at "that certain thing". They've mentioned losing the ability to use cross-class abilities (I don't remember if it was most or all of them), but you will gain Job-exclusive actions as a tradeoff.

[zaviermhigo]

After playing X and X-2 these past few months, I think blue mage (more xi style) and a summoner class (limited to 2-3 summons) would work wonderfully with the AP system. Just a side thought thought nothing too important obviously.

[SirThesd]

After playing X and X-2 these past few months, I think blue mage (more xi style) and a summoner class (limited to 2-3 summons) would work wonderfully with the AP system. Just a side thought thought nothing too important obviously.

I see what your getting at with the summon thing, must admit I loved BLU on XI :P, but I doubt people are going to settle for 3 summons :/ know I couldn't.