Think we'll be able to give our squad jobs eventually?

[Cabalabob]

I just got an arcanist on my team and I can't decide if I want to keep her or not. The decision basically comes down to "will I be able to make her a scholar?" If I can eventually upgrade her to a scholar and/or summoner she would be worth keeping for the versatility. If not, then I want another conjurer so I have two healers.

[PArcher]

Honestly, I hope not. These are just normal people seeking to join the Grand Company and rise through the ranks under you. I feel it makes more sense for them to stay as classes.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Honestly, I hope not. These are just normal people seeking to join the Grand Company and rise through the ranks under you. I feel it makes more sense for them to stay as classes.

And yet retainers can use Jobs like we can and are no more special than a typical NPC.

[myahele]

And yet retainers can use Jobs like we can and are no more special than a typical NPC.

I think that was more for gameplay reasons since there are some job only gear that retainers back then could not equip.

Though I do think it would make a lot more sense for squads to eventually get jobs since they are working under the WoL and receiving training. The only jobs that are truly one of a kind would have to SCH since you'll need to get a stone with a fairy; BLM and WHM fall under a similar category. All other jobs are more or less institutionalized or are being spread by it practitioners.

[Jandor]

Honestly, I hope not. These are just normal people seeking to join the Grand Company and rise through the ranks under you. I feel it makes more sense for them to stay as classes.

Same to be honest. A lot of jobs have rarity built into their lore.

[Felis]

I think that was more for gameplay reasons since there are some job only gear that retainers back then could not equip.

Though I do think it would make a lot more sense for squads to eventually get jobs since they are working under the WoL and receiving training. The only jobs that are truly one of a kind would have to SCH since you'll need to get a stone with a fairy; BLM and WHM fall under a similar category. All other jobs are more or less institutionalized or are being spread by it practitioners.

If there are no primal missions, then summoner will be out of the list, too

[myahele]

If there are no primal missions, then summoner will be out of the list, too

Pretty much, but there are plenty of people who helped fight and defeat primals, specifically: Titan, Leviathan and especially Ifrit. Though I can't imagine them being low-level GC squad members, though.

[Morningstar1337]

The only reason why Retainers were getting Jobs is because we can freely change their appearance at will and having 40-60 or so gearsets locked by them (the Artifact sets, which has 5 variations for 2.0 Jobs and 2 for 3.0 Jobs, as well as the Hell/Werewolf PvP sets for SCH, AST MCH and DRK) gets in the way of that.

In contrast, the Recruits all have preset appearances they we are unable to influence. So At this point I see little reason why our recruits should have Jobs other than for Lore consistency with the retainers.

[Connor]

I actually had this exact same thought earlier! As others have said though, I don't think this will be implemented as it's not really needed. Retainers have access to jobs so they can use job-specific equipment, but since we can't change the equipment of our Squadrons (yet) there's not much need for them to have access to jobs. If Squadrons really can be used in dungeons in future patches I can definitely see them considering whether they should have access to jobs though, otherwise they'd be locked out of a variety of very important skills (Shield Oath, Regen, The Wanderer's Minuet, etc)

[Morningstar1337]

If Squadrons really can be used in dungeons in future patches I can definitely see them considering whether they should have access to jobs though, otherwise they'd be locked out of a variety of very important skills (Shield Oath, Regen, The Wanderer's Minuet, etc)

Its possible but but there are certain skills used by NPCs thatare unlikely to have Jobs that are counterparts to Class and Job skills (War's being the most common, with Steel Cyclone, Overpower and as of Hull Breaker HM, Fell Cleave and Decimate having variants, as well as two versions of Beserk. Another example is BLM with Fire II, Flare and Freeze analogues. Its likely the Devs will use those instead if they want to avoif Jobs for the squadrons