Favorite Job Storyline?

[Bonbori]

Culinarian, especially the HW storyline. The final cutscene is pure gold if you're familiar with Food Wars n_n

So I'm really sad crafters and gatherers got no specific jobquests at all this expansion. Crystalline Mean is so... generic ._.

[MrKusakabe]

My first profession was Bard, which is basically: "Old guy has midlife-crisis because he let people die and you help him out and open his eyes (by almost sacrificing yourself)".


Then Black Mage: ...which I forgot even what that was about. I think it started with the Lalafell brothers that had their non-magical brother getting all sad and possessed in anger while it turns out he is good another thing and now works together with this bros.


Scholar: I am errand boy for Mr. Tonberry, help Alka Zolka out when he messes up (and caused a lot of rage in the final Level 50 quest. How can a Lalafell NPC be so dumb?) and later has to yell "SEESOLDATEN" to a Tonberry in armor in order to progress the story. Extremely dumb and lame.


But then there is my favourite, which I made clear in a previous post: The Red Mage training. From the start to the end (of Level 70 that is), I really enjoyed the development and the writing of it. And no, until that point, I could not be biased that much because I picked up the game just the day before and was completely new to the profession. In retrospect, the RDM profession's quest is my favourite, but now there is a lot of bias going on . . .

I was playing GW2 (and short of quitting) when I found a picture of X'rhun on Google. As I am always attracted to the tricorn-wielding folks, I dug a bit deeper to find out that's the attire of the profession - and playable. The official render is a plainsfolk Lalafell dashing towards the camera and I had to have my Zedek to become a RDM too. Right that day, I spent 63€ (two expansions and gametime) just because I saw that picture - I have not even watched a gameplay video...

As hardcore Lalafreak I have to admit: This handsome cat is my wildcard! X'rhun leaves an impression and he can be seen far before this nametag appears. The introduction to him was more or less accidently by accepting a quest by a girl whose sister is attacked. As we arrive, Mr. Tia is showcasing us a full rotation that ends in a Verflare finale. (And boy, did I love what I saw!) First I thought he is a show off, especially with his "And you are...?" snark towards me, as if nobody than me could've helped that kid out:

But as soon as he learns that we wanted to help, he is pleased and that he sleeps in the filthy drinking hole in the desert.

X'rhun is an intelligent personality that matches his beautiful Duellist attire: When you look at him, you see that he is surely not the short-tempered, testosterone-filled guy with anger issues. No, he's the whose look simply says: "I am a man of honor and and we should seek the diplomatic way first."

If this fails, he turns into a savage fighter:

After him showing off his skills we meet, and he asks me if I would want to learn the art of Red Magic (heck, why do you think I meet you here?!). He hands you the job stone and your training gear.

A long way to go...

But instead of other professions that go like: "Get me this" or "Kill that", X'rhun stays with you. He does it "on the fly", [almost like my instructor when I was a trainee, who gave me instructions while puffing due to the work he does at the same time], and that is pretty nice and gives me the feelling he really wants me to learn with him instead of being a nuisance that stops him from enjoying his day.

"Start with the fundamentals!" He has this "Show and Tell" sort of teaching I really enjoyed.

Inbetween the fights, he also teaches you a lot background information about the Red Magicians and his intentions and all of that feels so nice. Also, he is aware of his age and that he wants to teach and educate a new generation of Red Mages. A very reasonable plot in my opinion far off of the writing RPG games often come up with to make even the most trivial things pseudo-heroic.

The best part is, at least to me, and I am not sure if this was even intentional: The more you level up, and gain experience, the less he helps. The first figths you will have him in the fight. Later, when you have to go into the Great Library, he will be behind you all the time and only fights when you make him to by leading enemies too close to him. In the final battle, he does no fighting whatsoever, because the feline mentor is busy doing "mechanics".

In all situations however, X'rhun was there to help you out with a refreshing Vercure!

Apart from the "Learning by Doing" approach and the fact that X'rhun is wandering around the world and you follow him, you will soon meet several characters. Soulless puppets, a girl with no memories locked up in a crate at a dock in Limsa Lominsa, Lambart...

...and eventually you will find out what all of these have to do with each other. I do not want to step on a minefield here, so I can't really tell you much. But was once started out as a personal vendetta...

...turns into a much bigger plot with lots of duelling and Red Magic that simply made me even more interested in RDM.

You will be in the hot desert, freezing lands and green grasslands to trace down <something. You know, spoilers>...

The endfight took me several runs until I figured out what this was about, and it really was fun to play as it was fair and do-able, but still I had to upgrade my stuff first. So even balance-wise, it's not as frustrating as the Bard quest (I died several times until the archer dude came and helped. I felt he was showing up but did not know if this is a survival-by-time mission or not) or as stupid as the Scholar one (Alka Zolka just dies by being dumb and you are GAME OVER because of that...).

Fighting for and with this proud and beautiful Mi'Cat was fun and I loved every single bit of it. I never displayed a title before, but since he is "Deep Red X'rhun Tia", I am proudly wearing "Zedek Kusakabe <<The Red>>" now. Also, I never will wear anything else then the Duellist attire and the Murgleis until this game shuts down (except the rare moments of me being Scholar of course).

This NPC was the reason why I came here, stay here and rediscovered my love the game and Japanese game design.
Thanks Square Enix for Red Mage, thanks for this awesome incarnation/interpretation of the Red Mage, not-so much thanks for getting me addicted to RDM, thanks for this great storyline!

The German name of "Verholy".

P.S. Some of the quest names have to do with a certain shape of red, e.g. "Vermillion Vendetta" which made me smile.

Sincerely,

[Vayanne]

Ninja. It made me play a class/job type I don't usually pick. I thought it would be the usual shady-stabbity badassery but it was a very pleasant surprise. Copious amounts of comedy, a dash of well-balanced drama to move the plot forward and a generous sprinkle of funny but tasteful fan service. Oboro always tries to be the most serious and ends up the funniest.

[MOZZYSTAR]

I loved Dark Knight's from level 30-50 the absolute most. I actually didn't really like any of the others, weirdly enough. None that I tried anyway

[gumas]

AST, fight me.

i have no idea what iam doing on that storyline lol

[Daralii]

DRK to be sure. Even the 80 quest, simple as it was, was a great conclusion to a story arc. The visual element was also nice.

[LadyBaelcrest]

While I've gone though a good chunk of the stories but not all of them my absolute favorite is the dark knight 30-50 quest chain. I need to get my Dark knight to 80 to see how it all wraps up for the time being.

[Theodric]

DRK. It serves to flesh out the consequences of the Warrior of Light's actions and highlights that they are not 'all there' in regards to their mental state.

NIN and RDM are pretty good as well and deserve an honourable mention.

WAR and PLD would be my least favourite.

[Tone19]

I would have to say SCH, it is my main so maybe I'm a little biased, and I haven't seen any other lv80 job quests, but the SCH lv80 was a good nod to the quests previously.

[Nyvara]

I Leveled a DRK just for the story since I had heard so much about it. I was not let down. After that I think SAM was my next favorite.