Real talk; the lack of Job-specific STORY content is really hurting my excitement...

[HappyTrees]

I really miss the old job quests a lot. Some of my absolute favorite storylines have been in the job quests and it was nice to have stories that don't involve high stakes like saving the world/universe/a nation. I know it's a lot of work, but it would be nice to see even a single quest per expansion over what we get now.

As for the DoL/DoH quests, if they don't plan on doing more of them I wouldn't mind seeing them make the guildmasters custom delivery clients. It would give us a reason to talk to them again and keep them somewhat relevant. Sure they couldn't do them all in one expansion, but since we're lucky if they get a couple lines of new dialogue every four years this would be a good trade off.

[Pyro2hell3]

I mean we all know the real reason they stopped job specific quests

nothing could hope compete with the dark knight quest line

[KisaiTenshi]

I would rather the job quests be integrated into the MSQ proper. Those solo instances never actually require the player character to do anything but DPS. Other NPC's will heal them. That is however the perfect place to actually have them. Otherwise make those "role play" instances where any other party member in the party gets to RP the other NPC's in that instance. It is somewhat annoying to have to drop out of the party to do the solo instances, and many players just choose to do them with a DPS role because when you do it as a healer it just takes 10 times longer (as it should if they are being forced to DPS.)

What we got in Shadowbringers and Endwalker was kind of a "here's an optional set of 5 or so quests that aren't actually specific to your job, just your party role." Why not just weave that directly into the story using what the player's job was in the previous quest completed. If the player doesn't want to proceed in the current job, they can switch by re-activating the last story quest with a different job. Honestly the endwalker healer quests... you barely did any healing.

I'm not asking that the MSQ revolve around the job quest, but maybe some direct acknowledgement within the quests, actually playing the healer role in solo duties, and not making the player character so quick to choose violence when they aren't playing those roles at the moment. Mostly what we get are a few nods or references.

One thing that is sorely omitted are how crafters even fits in the game. The MSQ goes along without acknowledging ANY of the crafting you do, only one offhand comment in the endwalker Alliance raid even mentions this. Story for the crafting jobs is just barely present, which makes you kinda disincentivized to play the crafting jobs for the story. I know there is no way to both be "the warrior of light" and "the crafter of sultana's music box" acknowledged in the story but please, when a story calls on "getting arms", "armor", "tools", etc why don't NPC's ask for your expertise in building something.

[Arkdra]

I don't miss them. Half of the job quests suck out loud so having less of them to do is more of a boon than a bust.

[Bright-Flower]

I'm fine with role quests.

Yes, it'd be theoretically nice to see more job quests. But the longer running jobs idk what they'd even do at this point.l don't feel like ninja and monk for example need any more stories. Paladin ran out of ideas years ago and stopped even trying to be about paladins. DRK SB imo was a bit step down from HW DRK.

The only jobs where I feel like really have missed opportunities begging to be explored are dancer and reaper having a chance to have quests in their respective homelands added in EW.

ARR had what, 10 jobs including Ninja added mid ARR. Then it was 13. 15. 19. 21. Soon to be 23. Well over double the jobs we had in ARR launch. And having to come up with new engaging stories for each of them every expansion, plus the development resources to make all of them? From a pragmatic resource management standpoint, it makes sense to consolidate them into role quests.

I do think that role quests could often do a better job though of showing their connection to their roles. The Phys ranged EW quests for example call for a 'marksman' but it never really felt like that was important for actually dealing with the problem at hand.

There is much room for improvement in making these quests actually about these roles even if not the specific jobs that are included.

[Keumjo]

I would love to run into Job story NPC's in some of these new zones. Doesn't have to be a whole quest, could just be like a conversation moment as they tour some new zones.
Or even some kind of correspondence. One thing I liked in SWTOR was sometimes you would complete a quest helping/not helping someone and then you'd get a message sent to you from that character with an update after the quest resolved (and sometimes gifts/currency).

Plus, I feel like Jannequinard would 100% pen pal the WoL, even if we never replied.

I get it's more work, but wishing is free ya know? There are so many random filler city quests that are not a priority for myself to do. I would sacrifice any number of those for something a little more catered to my WoL's narrative, versus, "hey go find this guy/collect these items, thanks for finding that guy/collecting these items, now lets never interact ever again."

[MagiusNecros]

Wish there was more to Reaper lore then just Garleans are Gangsters. Such a Shame we will never have any lore surrounding our loyal Voidsent Steeve.

[Acelyn]

role quests are fine now, mainly because i dont want to waste my time working on jobs i'd never use for actual content, if my rdm can cover the magic stuff im good with that, same with my drk, mch and reaper.........sch too since it comes with another job for free.

[Mostly_Raxus]

i hard agree, i want to see the job quest return, I loved seeing the role and impact of each job on every new culture and the role they play in the social hierarchy. the job quest doesn't need to be us learning from so lost master that can take us to the next level yet again, but just culturally significant members of or job faction that are seeking help with their own journey, perhaps let us play the role of master training new disciples.

[ThaCa]

If they aren't rebuilding Job quests, then at least keep adding content to MSQ that refers your expertise of Jobs that you have leveled and make more use of the still present Job related NPCs.