Thread: Requesting Information on Jobs: Preparing for 1.21

I am very confused about the new jobs. When I first heard about them I thought they would be like FF XI. At lvl 30 you do a quest and unlock the advanced job. You then level them from level 1. Then I heard that they start at lvl 30 so you level them from 30 to 50, hmm. Then last night I heard that if you are a CNJ 50 (which I am) you unlock to a WHM 50. Can someone say what they are going to be yet? Ive levelled both CNJ and THM to 50. There is not enough to do at lvl 50 so just level up some melee classes. Hope that when I get WHM and BLM I can be a mage again to level up.

Originally Posted by Cure

I am very confused about the new jobs. When I first heard about them I thought they would be like FF XI. At lvl 30 you do a quest and unlock the advanced job. You then level them from level 1. Then I heard that they start at lvl 30 so you level them from 30 to 50, hmm. Then last night I heard that if you are a CNJ 50 (which I am) you unlock to a WHM 50. Can someone say what they are going to be yet? Ive levelled both CNJ and THM to 50. There is not enough to do at lvl 50 so just level up some melee classes. Hope that when I get WHM and BLM I can be a mage again to level up.

You are correct about the job matching your class level. WHM will be whatever level (30+) your CNJ is, etc. The way you "level" a job and get new skills for the job is by doing quests to unlock them.

Originally Posted by Zahak

So this is good news for bluemage! Just make it unlockable with Gladiator for the sword and whatever other class and boom! Bluemage

Its funny that so many people want to see blue mage with a sword....

It's obviously because the only games Blue mage was EVER relevant (FFXI, Tactics advance) had him using a sword

way before that it was:

-after a wind crystal shattered
-using Stragos' "Lore" (He used rods, flails and daggers)
-using materia
-Quistis used a whip
-Quina Quen used a fork
-Kimahri was a lancer/blue mage
In fact Blue Mage with a sword is a fairly new concept

The reason I dont think Blue mage should be a sword user is simple
The armoury system is weapon based
As of right now... SO MANY possible jobs use swords
Of all the advanced Jobs I can name... at least 50% of them would seem best as sword users. But not every job can use a sword (balance), So SE would have to be creative with weapons for each Job.
Blue Mage is easy though... make it a job for another class.... People think it HAS TO have a sword but I think we've just seen that it doesn't.
OR
Add a whip class (Remember "Flayer" was in the .DATS?) and make Blue mage a job of it

Bayo is there any effect of the sub class being higher than 15, like in 11 for example a higher sub class gave you better stats.

Or is it just a means to an end to unlock the job.

Originally Posted by BrusselSprout

You are correct about the job matching your class level. WHM will be whatever level (30+) your CNJ is, etc. The way you "level" a job and get new skills for the job is by doing quests to unlock them.

Thanks for the info.

Where did you guys get this info that jobs could only use skills from the sub class. I heard Yoshi-p say maybe he would do that or limit the amount of skills you could use.

Originally Posted by Cure

Thanks for the info.

No problem

Originally Posted by TheVedis

Blue Mage was relevent when Gau was one too!

so not just in 11 and tactics, and with Gau he dont need no stinkin weapon

Gau wasn't a blue mage....
He was a beast master... beast mimic maybe even
If you chose a MOB... he became that MOB... even down to their regular attacks
Gau definitely wasn't a blue mage