If They Need Class Inspiration...

[Krotoan]

I don't think the problem is the theme. The mechanics are the hard part. You can put any graphics, names, and effects over any job and craft the animations to make sense.. but if it's just another 1-2-3 with some random resource to manage, why bother?

[Amenara]

I don't think the problem is the theme. The mechanics are the hard part. You can put any graphics, names, and effects over any job and craft the animations to make sense.. but if it's just another 1-2-3 with some random resource to manage, why bother?

100% this, they need new devs to work on jobs and come up with inventive job designs for the current jobs instead of creating barely useful job gauges and then removing any choice with the gauges so they just become your counter for how many times you can spam 1 skill (ie Sam, War, Drk, Dnc, Mch, etc.)

[Moonlite]

100% this, they need new devs to work on jobs and come up with inventive job designs for the current jobs instead of creating barely useful job gauges and then removing any choice with the gauges so they just become your counter for how many times you can spam 1 skill (ie Sam, War, Drk, Dnc, Mch, etc.)

We don't have jobs. We have roles. They would have to do some serious house cleaning for that to change. The way quests work have made it even clearer that the game is built around roles. So unique jobs probably aren't happening. It is sad, but it isn't like they haven't been moving this way every expansion for almost a decade.

[Amenara]

We don't have jobs. We have roles. They would have to do some serious house cleaning for that to change. The way quests work have made it even clearer that the game is built around roles. So unique jobs probably aren't happening. It is sad, but it isn't like they haven't been moving this way every expansion for almost a decade.

The reason quests moved to role quests instead of job quests were to ease the burden on the quest team for having to create 19 (and more with every expansion) separate questlines for each job instead of just doing 5 for each role and dedicating resources to other things. Whether you like that or hate it is a different issue, but that was the reasoning given. My point was about specific job changes and the lack of innovation with jobs through the last few expansions. That is why I think they need new devs with fresh ideas to work on the job design team instead of the same 4 people (for 5 roles).