No Job Quests in Endwalker

[Rosenstrauch]

Not going to lie: I am definitely disappointed. As much as some job questlines are maligned (Paladin, Paladin, Warrior, and Paladin), they were always something I looked forward to experiencing. I was hoping that role quests "replacing" them was only going to be a thing in Shadowbringers, and only because having to warp back over to the Source every few levels for your job quests would've been pace breaking. Knowing that role quests are still being considered their replacement in Endwalker is really a letdown for me.

That said, I would laugh if it turned out the entire reason for this was just... Paladin. Like, they were so fed up with writing the Paladin questline that they just scrapped the entire job questline thing.

[Laerune]

It's a bummer, but they did say in a early interview, that the job quest npc would be present in Endwalker.

[Poporito_Popoto]

I preferred role quests to job quests, although not sure if EW can make them as meaningful to the character as ShB did.

[Gemina]

In a way, I can understand that at this point in the mmos life, the older jobs should really have their questlines tied off at some point. It is definitely a case that in order to be fair, either everyone has to win, or everyone has to lose; and there are just so many jobs now. However, the new jobs should get some love in this regard, and at the very least get a unique questline of their own that explores the lore surrounding the job a bit.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to toss a solo instance at them as well that pushes their skillset a bit. It would make their transition into the new expansion a hell of a lot easier for everyone.

[Halivel]

Is anyone else disappointed by the confirmation of no new Job Quests in Endwalker? I really enjoyed the unique Questlines for each Job that made me really feel like I was a student of that discipline. Sure, like they said in the Live Letter, some questlines felt like they'd reached a satisfying conclusion, but others felt like they still had more room to be explored. Like Dancer; Endwalker will see us visiting the discipline's homeland of Thavnair, yet there won't be any quest for players of the Job to explore that?

And what does this mean for Reaper and Sage? That we'll just get the Quest to unlock the job and that's it?

I'm a bit sad but also okay with it. I like roles quests approach - we'll see what they'll give in EW, but in ShB the story told was really good. Most jobs had a solid conclusion in level 80 quest too.

The amount of battle jobs pretty much doubled in these 4 expansions, it sounds like an absolute nightmare to create new story for each of them every two years while also keeping in mind the need to think of something else for new jobs, and could affect the MSQ and schedule in long-run perspective. Honestly it was bound to happen at some point. Seems like the time has come.

Talking about about Reaper and Sage - they start as level 70 so going by what we have so far they would have level 70 and level 80 quests. The real question tbh is what will happen with new jobs in 7.0 and onwards.

[Saraide]

I really like the job quest system so it was a bit of a letdown to hear that role quests will now completely replace them. Having thought about it more I can agree with some people in this thread that many job quest stories found a satisfying end. I hope there will be atleast some nods to something like the dancer job quest in thavnair, that would be a missed oppurtunity otherwise imo.

I disliked the phys dps and the tank role quests so that also did not make me very confident but the void questline was pretty good so hopefully all the new role quests will be great.

[Cetek14]

Not surprising, since 5.0 they cut content everywhere. A few years forward and they will start cutting entire expansions, and people will still praise them as the best game studio.

[OM3GA-Z3RO]

I liked the Job quests because it felt good to learn skills through a story and I always get excited what would be the next one, Role quests however I never got that invested in it because you don't get nice rewards out of it the story in the Role Quests were... okayish?

I felt more invested in the Job quest characters.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I struggle to actually FIND the level 80 job quests.. they are not blue quests? I remember starting the summoner one and not liking having these random pupils appearing.. But I wanted to do the DRK one and couldn't find the freakin thing so..
I rly did enjoy the story quests but I remember being grumpy on some jobs when I had leveled them a lot and found I HAD to do job quests to unlock skills. I liked them taking that away later and making the job quests pure enjoyment and you just unlocked the skill normally as you level. Think jobs could do with some new story lines later down the road but it seems they had a LOT to do for this expac so they didnt want to do them this time. I seen it coming so im sad but not that gutted.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Looking back at some of the 80 job quests, some of them were nice caps on their stories, but.....

-Paladin was really a Gladiator quest. But then again, so was Stormblood's chain.

-Likewise, White Mage was a Conjurer quest. Again, so was Stormblood.

-Summoner was most about Fordola and Arenvald than it was actually about Summoner. And if you'd kept up with the Tales on the Lodestone, it was redundant.

-Warrior was just dragging out the already-tired gag of Curious Gorge losing control yet again.

-Ninja was kinda funny, but didn't really add much. Just making Oboro the butt of the joke again.

-Dragoon was.....weird. Like a too-late attempt to make Nidhogg sympathetic.

So I'm not particularly sad to see them go.