Derplander adventures

[cosmicsynth]

Was he really an archer though? I didn't think the Echo worked like that. We never actually see him as an archer outside of the Echo vision.

[ObsidianFire]

Drplander was an Archer in the 1.0 cutscene. We see him with a bow both before and after the Echo vision.

[Enkidoh]

Drplander was an Archer in the 1.0 cutscene. We see him with a bow both before and after the Echo vision.

Not when he's in the Adventurer's Guild though - he had a sword on his backpack when he leaves right at the end, but he's not equipped with any weapon at all inside the Drowning Wench (and he's also wearing a completely different outfit to the harness he appeared in when he went off on his little Echo jaunt - in the Drowning Wench he's wearing a stylized tabard).

So it's unclear what class he is in the Adventurer's Guild, although GLA is as a good a suggestion as any (he's probably not ARC as when he falls down into the water and notices the bow the look on his face is surprise, showing that he wasn't actually that class to that point. It was meant to show the Armoury System at work where you could equip a class at any time).

[cosmicsynth]

And interestingly enough if you map out the classes/jobs you get this nice little pattern with the original job requirements...

Gladiator
Marauder > Warrior (GLD lvl 15 needed- check)
Lancer > Dragoon (MRD lvl 15 needed- check)
Puglilst > Monk (LNC lvl 15 needed - check)
Samurai
Dark Knight

It's almost like they planned out his first set of jobs because surely it's not a coincidence that the secondary classes needed at level 15 just so happened to be his last class. And you can see why archer sticks out again here being the odd one out.

[Mieck]

Well, if she was meant to be a CNJ, then SE Visual Works messed up (as usual)

I'd just add that Visual Works need to work far in advance of the release, so things will always change that cannot then be reworked for the cutscene. See: Miqo'te's eye's in 1.0 opening, Hraesvelgr attaching the Steps of Faith in 3.0 opening. Development will always take precedence over the CGI, so inconsistencies are basically inevitable.

[YianKutku]

It's almost like they planned out his first set of jobs because surely it's not a coincidence that the secondary classes needed at level 15 just so happened to be his last class. And you can see why archer sticks out again here being the odd one out.

Clearly he took Archer to cross-class Raging Strikes.

[cosmicsynth]

Saying that though, I would still say he picked up archer before warrior seeing as the Shadowbringers trailer has him switching between all his jobs in order. Even though he was a gladiator to start with, it seems SE either doesn't see it that way or just plain forgot. Or just didn't want to add more jobs to animate. Or adding archer to the trailer was just a nice little callback for 1.0 fans.

Someone should message SE's official XIV lore master and ask for an official timeline of jobs!