Thread: Requesting Information on Jobs: Preparing for 1.21

Gj Noctis.

Q: Will they be releasing any new materia during 1.21? (e.g. Job specific materia, trait enhancing materia, anything new at all?)

*I've seen a few pieces of materia on other sites that aren't in the game currently. Might make some of the current materia 'obsolete' and I'd hate to spend what little money I have only to need replacements later. *

Originally Posted by RemVye

Gj Noctis.

Q: Will they be releasing any new materia during 1.21? (e.g. Job specific materia, trait enhancing materia, anything new at all?)

*I've seen a few pieces of materia on other sites that aren't in the game currently. Might make some of the current materia 'obsolete' and I'd hate to spend what little money I have only to need replacements later. *

I knew i forgot something! I saw those materia as well that are not in game yet. Curious myself on the subject, and while I don't think it will be the case it's still worth asking if there may be job-specific materia.

I plan to update and reorganize the OP with questions in categories if there's a lot of input. Keep them coming guys!

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I actually just want more medals because I'm an attention whore.

My biggest question which you have touched on is how do we change to PLD from GLD, is it down to the weapon we equip or is there a sub menu where we select it? If its another range of weapons that are going to have to be added that make them specific to PLD and not GLD and the same for every other class. I can foresee the retainer search system becoming every more messy if they go about it this way, of course they could make it that all class weapons are rare/ex so the retainers never have to deal with them.

Originally Posted by Loki_Jortunn

My biggest question which you have touched on is how do we change to PLD from GLD, is it down to the weapon we equip or is there a sub menu where we select it? If its another range of weapons that are going to have to be added that make them specific to PLD and not GLD and the same for every other class. I can foresee the retainer search system becoming every more messy if they go about it this way, of course they could make it that all class weapons are rare/ex so the retainers never have to deal with them.

The preview Yoshi gave was the "Job Stone" an item you would equip to transform into that job. I can see another slot being added to our equipment screen (similar to arrow / throwing weapon slot) that acts as a "stone holder" or "rune slot". Once you have acquired your job stone you can just equip / un-equip via the equipment screen > rune slot.

That's the way I have it envisioned in my head. I believe this is a logical assumption since we manage all our class changes via the equipment screen (weapon slot).

Would be cool if they brought back what AF did in XI. Like some armor would enhance specific abilities/spells. Like equipping WHM AF2 body would give Regen an extra HP tick and Auto-Refresh.

This is just my conjecture but I think switching to Jobs will be like advanced classes in other MMOs, or (lol) evolution in Pokemon, basically you advance your current class into a job, like Lancer > Dragoon, and that's it, your Lancer is permanently a dragoon without a way of switching it back to Lancer. on the other hand it might be possible that each job will have its own unique weapon so that each job will essentially be a new class, though it might make an already cluttered system even more convoluted.