Why Don't You Get a Job?!

Learn the difference between classes and jobs in Final Fantasy XIV, how jobs provide stat buffs and exclusive abilities, and the requirements to unlock them.

In Final Fantasy XIV, Disciples of War and Magic have both classes and jobs. A class is the foundational role, while a job is a specialization built upon a class, granting significant stat buffs. Experience and stat allocations made while in a job are applied to its underlying class, and all class abilities are inherited by the job.

Most classes have a single associated job. Arcanist is an exception, offering two jobs: Summoner (offensive) and Scholar (defensive).

Jobs feature their own quest lines, with new quests unlocking at every level divisible by 5. These quests often reward players with job-exclusive abilities, such as Flare for Black Mages or Adloquium for Scholars. At levels 45 and 50, specific quests award artifact armor, visually inspired by classic Final Fantasy designs, which serves as excellent gear before reaching level 50.

Each job requires a secondary and a tertiary class for cross-class abilities. A notable restriction when equipping a job is the inability to use cross-class skills, except for those from the secondary class, tertiary class, Botanist, and Miner. Despite this limitation, jobs are highly recommended for end-game content due to the substantial stats and skills they provide.

To unlock a job, players must meet several prerequisites: be level 30 or higher in the base class, level 15 or higher in the job's secondary class, have completed the base class's quest line, and have cleared the main scenario quest "Sylph-management." Upon completing the initial job quest, players receive a job "soul" item, which must be equipped to assume the job and gain its first skill. These introductory quests are typically found in the respective class guilds.

Achieving level 50 in all Disciples of War and Magic classes and completing every job quest earns the title "The Professional." Acquiring each relic weapon grants a class-specific title, and collecting all relic weapons bestows the title "The Insatiable."