Shared Classes Are Not Failures (ie SCH/SMN)

[Wiccan026]

What’s even worse about Dark Knight, Machinist, and Astrologian being unlocked at level 30, is that they are gated behind Heavensward, while Red Mage, Samurai, Gunbreaker, and Dancer all unlock at 50+ without being locked behind a physical barrier. They are all available in ARR areas.

I honestly think sometimes some people post what they want and desire without thinking of the realities needed to create what they want (not to mention whether or not that's healthy for the game as a whole). Will come back to this in a bit... because we have two quick detours to make before looping back to this point.

When heavensward was created there was a reason why the jobs were gated at 30 versus starting them at 50 and it was due to for two reasons. The first was to create extra things to do, you'd have more people running fates and leveling dungeons to get those jobs up to make them playable for heavensward and the second reason it helped them understand their job better. The second reason was to help keep people from jumping into existing content new content with the new jobs without playing them to some degree, which is a precedent that exists with the newer jobs (sure there is a less of a level gap but the xp is a lot less needed to get from thirty to fifty and you have even more options to level once you hit fifty).

Also, moving those in charge of the jobs from heavensward to other areas doesn't make sense for lore or any of the intertwining stories that come out of it and at the time you get there you already can unlock the jobs. (Also if you're playing the game and are level sixty and haven't gotten ishgard you've either bought a job potion or you're playing the game very very differently than most do).

The instances created for the heavensward jobs alone currently don't make sense (at least for machinst or astrologian) because the job no longer works that way at all and they never wasted time to redo the instances. If they wasted time to recode things (get the jobs to adjusted to fifty once you get to heavensward) they would have to redo the instances.... which would cause a content situation we have for this expansion (yes I understand covid has caused a lot of delays, even without covid though the content were getting is completely different and "less" than other expansions because of there ARR rework.... and that was half needed for overall complaints they got from both new players and existing players).

Which than loops back to the point I made. Trying to lump the classes (because that's what they are based at on a coding level) into "combinable" jobs so you can level two jobs at once, like summoner/scholar... would take a massive re-work (whether or not they adjust the heavensward ones being started at fifty or not) which would mean allocating resources from somewhere else just to do that.

The fix to ARR was a necessary evil, most people, even if they are complaining about the "lack of content" at least get where the resources went to and why it had to happen. Trying to get folks to get on board another similar system for the next expansion just to combine jobs more than likely wouldn't.