As the title suggests, I first would like to say that Scholar and Summoner are a success. Because the devs felt like it was some kind of failure and difficult to balance, the community as a whole seemed to have let HORIZONTAL growth go by the way side. Instead we can individually level almost 20 Jobs. Job stones had such a cool vision back when I was a 1.0 player and they just dropped it entirely.
All jobs should share a base class with another job, SOLELY for exp purposes. It does not mean they necessarily share the same role, or abilities. This is a means to consolidate level progression, and give players flexible options when it comes to end game metas. Only have Arcanist at 80? That’s cool because I can choose to Heal or DPS.
You know what? I don’t want to level 20 different jobs to 80. It takes an obnoxious amount of effort to do it especially as more jobs get added. At first it was fun trying to max all my jobs, then I said okay only Healers and Ranged. Then in Shadow Bringers I did one of each role, which is actually nice to have, but it’s so easy to get burnt out on the leveling grind- especially if it’s going to take getting that many jobs to max.
This is what I’m proposing as a shared class structure:
Gladiator - You will always be a Tank here, but you have 2 different Tank styles.
PLD or DRK
Marauder - Musketeer was once a thing. This makes guns relevant to Marauder without actually having to make the class.
WAR or MCH
Lancer - I believe Gunbreaker starts near the Lancers guild so this isn’t such a stretch.
DRG or GNB
Pugilist - Here you can either specialize in melee or ranged support.
MNK or DNC
Archer - Opposite of Pugilist, here you can go from ranged support to melee.
BRD or SAM
Rogue - This will take you from Melee to Mage
NIN or RDM
Conjurer - Like Galdiator, two different types of (pending healer reworks.)
WHM or (probably GEO)
Thaumaturge - Go from Mage to Healer
BLM or AST
Arcanist - Another Mage to Healer
SMN or SCH
(No Class or Animist) - I wouldn’t exactly try to shoehorn these together but it would be nice since they have always meshed well together in previous FF games, but I know I would prefer to see BST as a Ranged DPS with a Whip, thereby filling in the one thing BLU can do, which is Physical Ranged DPS.
BLU or BST
If this kind of consolidation were to occur, then the lower job should be raise up to the higher job. Like if my Machinist were 80 but my Marauder/Warrior was 50, after consolidation I would be an 80 Marauder that can either become Warrior or Machinist. Again it’s only sharing a base class for exp and horizontal options, especially to help players flex into late game metas.
Let me know what you guys think, and if you like it, tell it’s what you want.
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All jobs should share a base class with another job, SOLELY for exp purposes. It does not mean they necessarily share the same role, or abilities. This is a means to consolidate level progression, and give players flexible options when it comes to end game metas. Only have Arcanist at 80? That’s cool because I can choose to Heal or DPS.
You know what? I don’t want to level 20 different jobs to 80. It takes an obnoxious amount of effort to do it especially as more jobs get added. At first it was fun trying to max all my jobs, then I said okay only Healers and Ranged. Then in Shadow Bringers I did one of each role, which is actually nice to have, but it’s so easy to get burnt out on the leveling grind- especially if it’s going to take getting that many jobs to max.
This is what I’m proposing as a shared class structure:
Gladiator - You will always be a Tank here, but you have 2 different Tank styles.
PLD or DRK
Marauder - Musketeer was once a thing. This makes guns relevant to Marauder without actually having to make the class.
WAR or MCH
Lancer - I believe Gunbreaker starts near the Lancers guild so this isn’t such a stretch.
DRG or GNB
Pugilist - Here you can either specialize in melee or ranged support.
MNK or DNC
Archer - Opposite of Pugilist, here you can go from ranged support to melee.
BRD or SAM
Rogue - This will take you from Melee to Mage
NIN or RDM
Conjurer - Like Galdiator, two different types of (pending healer reworks.)
WHM or (probably GEO)
Thaumaturge - Go from Mage to Healer
BLM or AST
Arcanist - Another Mage to Healer
SMN or SCH
(No Class or Animist) - I wouldn’t exactly try to shoehorn these together but it would be nice since they have always meshed well together in previous FF games, but I know I would prefer to see BST as a Ranged DPS with a Whip, thereby filling in the one thing BLU can do, which is Physical Ranged DPS.
BLU or BST
If this kind of consolidation were to occur, then the lower job should be raise up to the higher job. Like if my Machinist were 80 but my Marauder/Warrior was 50, after consolidation I would be an 80 Marauder that can either become Warrior or Machinist. Again it’s only sharing a base class for exp and horizontal options, especially to help players flex into late game metas.
Let me know what you guys think, and if you like it, tell it’s what you want.
Continue reading...