Advanced Jobs! Specialization? or Unlockable? Share your thoughts!

[Axl]

Hey people, so as many of you probably know, in the Eorzeapedia interview with Yoshi-P, they touched on their plans for advance classes, the classes that have been named since Letter From the Producer I (In example) are Paladin, White Mage, Black Mage, and Dragoon. You can see the excerpt here.

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I honestly would like either one, but I can only speculate and hope for what can be obtained, and how.

I was thinking that they might take something similar to XI, where you have to level up a certain class to R30 or so, and then do a quest (or series of them) in order to unlock it. Or perhaps it's simply a specialization, of which I can't begin to speculate, as there isn't really anything like that currently in the game that I know of.

But I think that it would be something like Lancer > Dragoon|???, Gladiator >Paladin|Samurai, Pugilist>Ninja|Thief, Archer>Ranger(Crossbows)|Musketeer etc. But I'm probably wrong.

Please share your thoughts!

[Cairdeas]

most of the forums know my thoughts already probably by now.


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Adding the Job System ontop of the Armoury System as an augmentation like a Job Title that gives bonuses when you follow the path of the job you set but still allows you to customize th job should you chose.

[Axl]

I like that idea, but the mapping of the diagram is a little bit fuzzy to me, would you be so kind as to explain it a little bit more?

[Cairdeas]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...t-Jobs-dev1033

Basically any "Weapon Class" can equip any "Traditional Job" and theres no lock outs like "Oh only Magic Classes can Equip Magic Jobs"

[Catapult]

From what I gathered in Yoshi-P's letters, I got the impression that they were not so much looking at adding advanced jobs but rather looking at re-creating the existing jobs, so that Conjurer would become White Mage instead, Lancer replaced by Dragoon etc, and a re-allocation of class-specific abilities to go along with it and re-balance the combat system. Of course, I may have read this wrong, but it was the clear impression I got (and if true, something I would be strongly against).

I would prefer it if we got Musketeer, Arcanist and Shepperd as regular jobs first. Maybe also add a new magic class for Ul'dah's Nald-sect rather than just having the Thal-sect available as Thaumaturges.

[Cairdeas]

From what I gathered in Yoshi-P's letters, I got the impression that they were not so much looking at adding advanced jobs but rather looking at re-creating the existing jobs, so that Conjurer would become White Mage instead, Lancer replaced by Dragoon etc, and a re-allocation of class-specific abilities to go along with it and re-balance the combat system. Of course, I may have read this wrong, but it was the clear impression I got (and if true, something I would be strongly against).

I would prefer it if we got Musketeer, Arcanist and Shepperd as regular jobs first. Maybe also add a new magic class for Ul'dah's Nald-sect rather than just having the Thal-sect available as Thaumaturges.

Actually he said in multiple interviews they were not looking to disrupt the current system but augment it.

[Catapult]

That perspective certainly makes me feel a little better.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Similar to Catapult, I got the impression that the current Disciplines would be altered in such a way that players would have a chance to reallocate their efforts into this new system. But that's the impression I got from one of the producer letters.

[Llan]

I like the specialization idea better.
Also, I belive Musketeer would definitely be my class.

Regards,
Llan Hana.

[Catapult]

Hehe. Maybe the reason they held back Musketeer is because they knew everyone would swamp Limsa otherwise.