(08-07-2013, 09:32 PM)Fiona Swift Wrote: Yep, it works the following way.
Upon creation of a character you will be "locked" into a role that you pick. Â This role is your first class and can not be changed until you complete the level 15 story quest which allows you to travel between the 3 major cities. Â Â Once you can do this you can go to any "guild" and learn their class.
This becomes important later on because once you hit level 30 in a class that class basically is going to stop giving you quests. Â While you can still level it to 50, at this point your next set of class quests is about converting said class into a "job". Â Â For a Bard.. I plan on leveling my archer to 30. Â Once that happens I need to learn Conjurer and hit level 15 (complete the lv 15 class quest basically).
Wanted to clarify a couple things about what I put in bold.
After completing your first Lv10 class quest you unlock the Armoury System, which will allow you to equip gear sets and unlock new combat classes as well as crafting and gathering classes. So you only have to complete the Lv10 class quest in order to do this. However, you will be limited to classes within your starter city until you complete the Lv15 Main Story Quest which grants you airship access to the other starter cities. You can walk in between all starter cities whenever, but its a trek and you'll have to bypass some higher level mobs.
So here's an example. You start as an Arcanist in Limsa Lominsa. After you complete the Lv10 Arcanist quest you can go unlock Marauder or Culinarian or Fisher, etc. But since you are stuck on Vylebrand you will not be able to go to Gridania to unlock Conjurer or Lancer, etc until you complete the Lv15 Main Storyline quest that grants you airship access off the island. Again, you can take a ferry off at any time, but it's a long trek. Airship is by far easier. Also you will have to go all the way back to progress in your main storyline which is tied to your starter city for a time at least.
The second thing is about Class Quests post-Lv30. We don't know how many class quests there are. In 1.0 we had class specific quests up to Lv36. So who knows if Class quests will go higher. This leads into Job Quests. Again, we haven't seen these yet in Beta. But based on 1.0, these quests were not tied intrinsically to their respective class's guild. (ie. You got Dragoon quests from Alberic outside Ishgard in Coerthas, not the Lancer's guild in Gridania.) Lore-wise Classes and their respective Jobs are not necessarily related. (ie. PLD, BRD, WHM, WAR, MNK)
