Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
NPCs talked about them long before Zilart, much like you did errands for a guy who was in business with the near east through a Blue Mage, which didn't get released until ToAU, however they were present in the game world long before being even a job choice which is the point. You don't need new areas or an expansion to add in new jobs, especially since the lore for them can exist prior to it, which happened with the new jobs in FFXIV thus far.

They don't need to make new zones to implement jobs, especially since a lot of jobs in XI came in with a patch, not an expansion that added new zones, which is exactly what they planned to do with XIV, make new classes via patches rather than full blown expansion packs which is what a lot of MMO developers does when adding new classes. Lore is nice and all, but I can guarantee the majority care for how a new job/class will affect gameplay rather than the life of a Summoner or Red Mage who decides to teach you his art.
with the lore we have now, I would rather them work on that first instead. there is room for beastmaster, musketeers, arcanist and a slight hint for necromancer, and even summoner. leave the far eastern stuff for actual full fledged expansions is what I want.