I thought of this idea originally before Dawntrail's job reveal and a recent Mr. Happy video got me thinking about it again so I'm curious to see if others share the same sentiment.
Since the end of Endwalker, I've felt that the WoL is in a position to create a unique job based on their own experiences. Originally, the idea came from wishing that we could have a Sword/Spear/Shield job based on Halone in the EW alliance raids. I LOVE her design and felt a shield that can transform into a weapon would be a novel variation on the traditional sword and shield. When you think about it, the WoL has met beings and fought in battles that no one in the world could meet or fight again. It would easily fit into the lore if we had a job where the WoL uses that experience as inspiration in developing their own brand new job where only they have the knowledge to do. The job quests could revisit some past battles, show the WoL putting together abilities from what they experienced, and create something never before seen on Etheirys.
Part of why this idea came to be is also because I was a little disappointed in Reaper's backstory as I felt it was kind of sudden to have this deadly, scythe-wielding, voidsent-allying job come out of nowhere and be essentially unheard of in the 5 expansions we've been fighting the Garleans. We know more about Musketeer and Geomancer than we knew about Reaper before EW. To me, Reaper's backstory of farmers was a little hard to suspend disbelief for. The issue would definitely arise in the future since we usually get 2 new jobs per expansion. Having the WoL develop their own job would make it easier to fit it into the increasingly packed lore of FFXIV. Its less jarring for the WoL to go on a quest of personal development than it is to have the writers find increasingly outlandish excuses for the new job's NPC to wander around in the starting cities from their new zones of origin giving out secret, esoteric knowledge to anybody who happens to be passing by. I bet Beastmaster's story is going to start with some Beastmaster in Gridania searching for lost pet or something.
Of course, if Yoshi-P wanted it to, he could easily have the new jobs start in the new expansion's zones, but for now I'm going to assume he'll continue to want them to be accessible instantly to anyone who's purchased the new expansion but haven't gained access to its zones yet.
But more than just easily fitting into the established lore, I think the WoL have fought a lot of interesting enemies and I definitely wish to see some of them influence a future job. Rhitahtyn's dual shields, Byregot's giant hammer, Halone's transforming shield, the Musketeer's guild sign with their dual pistols, the Tyrant triple-wielding an axe, scythe, and sword, anything we've seen could be used as inspiration. We could even have a living weapon like Godrick from Elden Ring grafting a dragon's head onto his arm. We already have a pact with a voidsent for Reapers, we could easily make a deal with a living creature and have our arm become a dragon head that spits fireballs as a new job's weapon. That's less ridiculous than having 4 laser-firing drones as a healer's weapon.
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Since the end of Endwalker, I've felt that the WoL is in a position to create a unique job based on their own experiences. Originally, the idea came from wishing that we could have a Sword/Spear/Shield job based on Halone in the EW alliance raids. I LOVE her design and felt a shield that can transform into a weapon would be a novel variation on the traditional sword and shield. When you think about it, the WoL has met beings and fought in battles that no one in the world could meet or fight again. It would easily fit into the lore if we had a job where the WoL uses that experience as inspiration in developing their own brand new job where only they have the knowledge to do. The job quests could revisit some past battles, show the WoL putting together abilities from what they experienced, and create something never before seen on Etheirys.
Part of why this idea came to be is also because I was a little disappointed in Reaper's backstory as I felt it was kind of sudden to have this deadly, scythe-wielding, voidsent-allying job come out of nowhere and be essentially unheard of in the 5 expansions we've been fighting the Garleans. We know more about Musketeer and Geomancer than we knew about Reaper before EW. To me, Reaper's backstory of farmers was a little hard to suspend disbelief for. The issue would definitely arise in the future since we usually get 2 new jobs per expansion. Having the WoL develop their own job would make it easier to fit it into the increasingly packed lore of FFXIV. Its less jarring for the WoL to go on a quest of personal development than it is to have the writers find increasingly outlandish excuses for the new job's NPC to wander around in the starting cities from their new zones of origin giving out secret, esoteric knowledge to anybody who happens to be passing by. I bet Beastmaster's story is going to start with some Beastmaster in Gridania searching for lost pet or something.
Of course, if Yoshi-P wanted it to, he could easily have the new jobs start in the new expansion's zones, but for now I'm going to assume he'll continue to want them to be accessible instantly to anyone who's purchased the new expansion but haven't gained access to its zones yet.
But more than just easily fitting into the established lore, I think the WoL have fought a lot of interesting enemies and I definitely wish to see some of them influence a future job. Rhitahtyn's dual shields, Byregot's giant hammer, Halone's transforming shield, the Musketeer's guild sign with their dual pistols, the Tyrant triple-wielding an axe, scythe, and sword, anything we've seen could be used as inspiration. We could even have a living weapon like Godrick from Elden Ring grafting a dragon's head onto his arm. We already have a pact with a voidsent for Reapers, we could easily make a deal with a living creature and have our arm become a dragon head that spits fireballs as a new job's weapon. That's less ridiculous than having 4 laser-firing drones as a healer's weapon.
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