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Okay i was just reading a guide on another site... and the guy says that you will not actually level the advanced jobs like PLD, MNK, BLM, etc...

You just put on the soul stone to become that job... does that mean we will be the same job level for our class as we are for the advanced job automatically?

So if I'm a 42 DRG, does that mean I'm a 42 LNC too?

Just wondering.

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What iv read and understand yes it will be the same level. Like 90% sure lol

Yep. The way I was able to wrap my head around it is to think of the class as any normal class from another game, and jobs as skill trees in that class. They offer customization on the class, and certain benefits, and give you different options. For instance, arcanist branches into both scholar and summoner. Scholar is your healing tree, summoner is your damage tree. So when you level arcanist, both those jobs level as well, much as the skill trees are all attached to your class in other games, and you don't have to re-level your class to unlock a different skill tree.

Does that make any sense?

You can also level the "JOB" which will translate to the "CLASS" being leveled.

I strap on... my BRD stone, level from 40 to 45, take off the BRD Stone, I am now level 45 RNG, where before I was a 40 RNG.

Yes.

A 'job' is basically the class with a more restricted cross-class list and up to 5 of its cross-class slots taken by the job abilities. There's really not much to expect to learn there. The only exception I can think of might be Arcanist because of how Scholar and Summoner have different summons, and even then...

You still have to go through separate quests for each of the 5 job specific skills. So that can be your learning process. Once you've leveled something 1-50, do you really need another 30-50 leveling process just to learn when to use an extra skill or 2?

I agree that it feels weird to have lv50 jobs instantly by just equipping job stones, but oh well. Wish they would just get rid of classes and let us level jobs from the beginning cause I don't think the jobs really are all that different from their base class. Although once(if) they raise the level cap, maybe they'll be able to distinguish them more.

Oh? So in a way you do learn skills 1 by 1 even after unlocking the job. That's cool.

Great responses guys. Thanks. Guess we shall see at launch/p4?

I had no idea this was how the leveling would be. So if you have everything unlocked and you level up to cap, you really have all jobs @ level and just need to equip the "stone"?


So a way to get my mind around this. You only level up once, and as long as you have the stone via the job quest then you level that job. So if I had 3 jobs/classes unlocked and had their respected stone I would just level up WHM and BRD and SMN would also level?

Edited, Aug 7th 2013 7:57pm by HaibaneRenmei

Your job is your stance of your class.

In 1.0, when you leveled Paladin it literally said on the EXP bar "Paladin - (Gladiator Level 50)".

Jobs are a stance of your class that allow you to have more specialized abilities for your class for party play at the expense of being able to cross class. As a Warrior, you can't cast Cure like a Marauder but you get better abilities to hold hate for your job in a large party.

It's not like Final Fantasy XI. FFXI had each job be useful even at the endgame level. A Warrior is clearly better than a Marauder for endgame content where a Marauder is better for soloing and small four man content where roles aren't so rigidly defined.

In "A Realm Reborn", if you made progress on your jobs or unlocked them in 1.0, you are grandfathered in and can still use all your jobs, abilities you've learned from 1.0's version of the job quests, and AF you've gotten, even though they've rebooted all quests for all players.

People have brought up the argument: "So I just equip the job stone and that's it, huh?"

No.

Each job requires 5 quests. As of 1.0, all job quests grant abilities, one gets you your AF from treasure chests, and last quest has a final boss battle that really emphasizes on the mechanics of how to play your job.

Not to mention you need to level cross classes ala FFXI subjobs in order to maximize your job's potential.

(What shares the same level)
Gladiator-Paladin
Marauder-Warrior
Thaumaturge-Black Mage
Conjurer-White Mage
Archer-Bard
Pugilist-Monk
Lancer-Dragoon
Arcanist-Summoner-Scholar

Edited, Aug 7th 2013 5:38pm by UltKnightGrover

Start as Conjurer and level it to 30.

Level a conjurer to 30. Then level a gladiator to 15. Then do the quest to unlock whm. Once you unlock whm, it will start at level 30. Then, you can level either whm OR conjurer from 30-50, and both class and job will gain levels concurrently.