[Dev1188] Job Points System

A new category of points for enhancing level 99 characters, called job points, will be introduced. These points may be accrued for each job by defeating enemies as that job. For example, players will need to set warrior as their main job if they wish to accumulate job points that may be used to enhance warrior attributes.

Speak to the nomad moogle in Ru'Lude Gardens after fulfilling the following conditions to receive the "Job Breaker" key item and begin the trek to completely mastering Vana'diel's myriad professions.

*Be in possession of the "Limit Breaker" key item
*Currently be a job of level 99




Vanquishing foes while in possession of the "Job Breaker" key item will grant players capacity points in addition to experience. For every 30,000 capacity points players amass, they will receive one job point.

Players can view their job points under the eponymously named "Job Points" menu, which is situated within the "Status" menu, while in their Mog Houses. Expending these points from within the aforementioned menu will enhance certain aspects specifically related to one's profession.


(Mighty Strikes effect + and Berserk effect +; thanks to Cairthenn(Jinjo) over on BG for the translation)


The only limit on the jobs one may refine is the number of them Vana'diel has to offer, so enhance to your heart's delight, whether with one job or many.

Destroy monsters, gain EXP, earn job points. It's that simple.




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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/40509

Sorry Kali, don't mean to steal your thunder, I'm just excited and didn't want to wait!

This is pretty awesome.

Wonder how potent these will be(and if the RDM ones won't suck like merit points! >:O).

:o

Reforged AF3 is coming. This will slowly put Abyssea back on track and very soon we'll be fighting Neo Shinryu for peebles.

Peebles will skyrocket to 300k on AH

I can't wait !

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Always excited by new content. Thank you SE :)

Wow, I'm thrilled about this. Hopefully we can spend them on some cool stuff.

Also I'll have a reason to gear up my WAR for the first time in a looooong time.

Too much thing in FFXI atm O_o

"Yeah i get my new gear" MAJ => "damn i need a new one"

Anyway, nice work SE, really !

Very excited about this. I wonder if Blue mage can get more blue points through this system :O

This is SE secret way to fix Run inc 30% more base parry rate and 30% more duration on battuta!

I hope so. slots too

Do want. Didn't expect this but this is definitely something I'm really looking forward to.

i think its cool they're revamping everything w/ horizontal progression. brings life back to the game, they just need to merge servers again since we're all scattered far and thin.

Its just killin me we don't know what all the job point upgrades are going to be.

Considering they had to come up with these for 22 jobs and are hopefully trying to avoid a reasonable amount of overlap with job specific merits already,
i'm kinda impressed they had someone free to work on that along with everything else they've been cranking out.

I just hope they never turn these into currency for buying battlefield KIs.

Sounds cool, I just hope 1 capacity point does not equal one limite point or this won't last long.

*faps*

Everyone knows SAM is going to somehow benefit most from this. They're gonna get WSD+% job boosts, Mnk will get like an impetus duration so it can be kept up like 90% of the time. Dragoon? Dragoon will get more crit defense bonus, red mage will get enhanced enspell and bar spell effects, thf will get a subtle blow effect added to sa/ta.

As you can tell I have high hopes for this system--for SE's favorite jobs, as for the lackluster ones, don't expect much


According to tha image, it's 1 jp to boost those effects, caps at 30. Going to assume it means -1min for each Mighty Strikes enhancmeent and probably +1 second for each berserk enhancment(could be +1%atk but 50% att is probably too strong

Do we need more power?

Yes more power pls.

Can we now flag up in town and get a tell saying party do you need it?

SE please give dual wield jobs triple/quad attack% rate points pretty please :3

With increased player strength, newer content will be harder to accommodate. Players thought we were invincible and never needed acc food/gear again when they gave pretty much all dds +200acc/atk for free after the skill update...yet newer content requires much acc now. Shortening SP1's to 30min abilities will mean in most content players can use it twice, so less reliance on wildcard. I just hope SE boosts JAs and spells in a balanced way and enhance each job in strong ways. I don't wanna see drk and war get like haste bonuses on last resort and berserk but see THF get extra subtle blow on Conspirator, or nin getting magic crit bonus, or rdm getting duration bonuses for enspells or bar spells

I'll join it if it's a Garlaige Citadel party!

From the way this is worded we will gain capacity points and exp simultaneously. We don't have to switch to a mode like we did for limit points it seems. This could mean we get the same CP as EXP or some contrived percentage of exp.

wonder what pup will get....

Hey for real though, not even a projected month on when this is coming about? A year ago they promised a new black belt for monk. Still haven't seen that. How long will we be waiting on Job Points (looks weird to call it JP's).

i would assume its coming this update but maybe im wrong?

The "revamp to the merit point system" has been in the update section on official forums since 2011 along with "meriting special two hour abilties" and "increasing synergy level cap"

Omg is it the first time Pchan say something that beside adl is good in ffxi ?

Would be cool if it comes this update but that would be surprising for me at least

If you look at this:



You will see that every 30k "exp" points = 1 job point, where you can hold up to 200 of these job points total. That's 6 million "exp" points!

Also, it looks like that you can enhance 1 "stat" up to 30 times, and knowing SE, it will be increasing in the number of points per upgrade (1 job point for the first enhancement, 2 job points for the next, 3+ for the third and so on).

So, it would take a lot of grinding to max everything out per job.