Job Quests: Is that all for this xpac?

[Destati]

For me it made sense that they would not have the individual job quest lines seeing as the new zones are in an entirely different world and making new lore for all the jobs on that shard (and/or writing reasons for the questlines to take place there) would have been too great an undertaking. Sure, they could have set things in the older zones but I imagine they wanted to focus on the new this time around.

The job role quests were an interesting change of pace in my opinion, though I can't help but hope that this won't be the norm for future expansions. I've only done the lvl 80 DNC quest at this time but it didn't do a whole lot for me in terms of tying up loose ends; it left things rather open-ended. I remember Yoshi-P stating in a live letter that the lvl 80 job quests would be considerably longer than usual to compensate for the lack of storyline there, but the DNC one felt rather short to me though I'm not sure how the others are yet.

[White_Wolf_X]

I just did my machinist job quest, it took 5 min...

A very big let down, i mean this is what they give us instead of quests while leveling?? ( 70-78 etc ) ..

they could even have made the machinist's quest be about our new skills like automaton Queen or something .. instead is just .. that..


Edit: didn't they even say that instead of getting job quests while leveling we would get one at 80 which would be longer then normal?.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

PLD has been lacking since HW. This shouldn't come as a surprise.

You mean SB. Its a bloody Tournament Arc.

[Mimilu]

I liked the cutscene we get for DNC's 80 quest but the overall story was kind of bland.
Then again, I didn't really care for the quest's story... >w>()

[SendohJin]

The issue is that before when there were only 12-14 jobs, it would have been fine to make decent job quests. Now we have uh....17 or 18 jobs? It becomes more and more daunting to write job quests for that many jobs. It's a shame because I LIVE for the job lore and we got so little of it. How did we get some of these powers? Hell I would kill for flavor text in the tooltips or SOMETHING.

why did they need to cut all the DoH and DoL quests down too? we didn't get any new classes there. Ahm Areng mining quests and Rak'tika botany quests would've been great.

i'm okay with the current set of Role Quests as the 3 i've done so far have been very high quality but this is a bad precedent to accept with no push back.

[White_Wolf_X]

For me it made sense that they would not have the individual job quest lines seeing as the new zones are in an entirely different world and making new lore for all the jobs on that shard (and/or writing reasons for the questlines to take place there) would have been too great an undertaking. Sure, they could have set things in the older zones but I imagine they wanted to focus on the new this time around.

The job role quests were an interesting change of pace in my opinion, though I can't help but hope that this won't be the norm for future expansions. I've only done the lvl 80 DNC quest at this time but it didn't do a whole lot for me in terms of tying up loose ends; it left things rather open-ended. I remember Yoshi-P stating in a live letter that the lvl 80 job quests would be considerably longer than usual to compensate for the lack of storyline there, but the DNC one felt rather short to me though I'm not sure how the others are yet.

To be fair they could have made job quests for us that took place in the first and made perfect sense, could have been about how we learn our new skill/spell's from someone there.

[Bright-Flower]

why did they need to cut all the DoH and DoL quests down too? we didn't get any new classes there. Ahm Areng mining quests and Rak'tika botany quests would've been great.

i'm okay with the current set of Role Quests as the 3 i've done so far have been very high quality but this is a bad precedent to accept with no push back.

The DOL ones feel especially weird that they consolidated miner/botanist but let fisher have its own.

[Bright-Flower]

PLD has been lacking since HW. This shouldn't come as a surprise.

I'm not surprised but I'm still disappointed.

[Edax]

The issue is that before when there were only 12-14 jobs, it would have been fine to make decent job quests. Now we have uh....17 or 18 jobs? It becomes more and more daunting to write job quests for that many jobs. It's a shame because I LIVE for the job lore and we got so little of it. How did we get some of these powers? Hell I would kill for flavor text in the tooltips or SOMETHING.

I thought maybe they'd use the patches to provide another job quest for 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 ect. to deal with the extra jobs. Could have been a way of keeping players interested by having more story content in the patches.

[Iscah]

The level 80 quest seems like it exists to tie up the class quest lines from the previous xpacs and leads me to believe that in future xpacs, theyll be doing the role quests. If that ends up being the case, man, thats crap. It's lazy and bland.

The job quests seem to be updates, not long-term resolutions. Summoner isn't even job-focused (it's an update on Arenvald and Fordola, following off the Tale From the Storm with them and the Ul'dahn summoner squad) and the scholar quest progresses its long-running story arc but doesn't complete it.

We may or may not go back to large-scale job quests next time, but they're not being abandoned altogether.