Post-99 Job Specialization System

[Maquis]

I like the ideas, all the added bonusses you can get on your jobs. I am afraid that the focus will move away from bonus and more towards restriction. People will always look at the stuff they can't do because they had to choose for one.

I would much more prefer a hybrid system like I posted here some time ago.

[OMEGA_HACK]

FXII (Ultima was a summon that casted Ultima and was considered White/Holy Magic) and I would consider Ultima from Terra to be a White/Holy magic class as well primarily due to the fact that in Dissidia you can get her to use it with when you chain from Holy Combo.

So I would say 4 for white magic and 3 for black magic.

[Atomic_Skull]

Thief:
Brigand (Assassin-type melee spike damage w/ enmity wipes)
Trickster (Unique Support via. enhanced TH, Enmity Control, Gilfinder, Aura Steal, etc.)

Can't see anyone ever doing anything but the first one.

[hiko]

Can't see anyone ever doing anything but the first one.

and everybody else asking for the latter (th whore)

[Tamarsamar]

I like this idea.

As cool as some of these specializations' names sound, though, particularly in terms of defining your job (Mystic Knight? Heck yes, that sounds like the kind of job I signed up to play!), I can't see the names themselves able to see very much prominence within the game's programming. I see a level 99 Red Mage, and without keen observation of said Red Mage in action (or being explicitly told), it would be difficult to figure out whether said Red Mage has taken a "Time Mage" path, a "Mystic Knight" path, or whether said Red Mage had only just reached level 99!

Still. Very cool idea, nonetheless! There are potential problems where one build on the surface seems like the more obvious choice than the others, but if S-E has learned anything about game balance (as if, right? >_> ), I'm sure there will be enough incentive for even the off-beat builds for at least a few adventurous players to play around with them.

[JiltedValkyrie]

Lv 99 -> Lv1 new job specialization

[Sama]

Good writes but meh... you are just dividing one job into two with kind of like a ying-yang set up...

If SE is to do that, soon people will ask to combine them.

Thx but no thank you...

[Seriha]

My bigger concern would be one aspect being so dominatingly more beneficial than another that there is no actual "choice" in the decision. We see it now with merits (which is why I feel we should just be able to max everything and be done with it) and it would pretty much happen with this, too.

[Alukat]

what's everyone thinking about the old board in ffx?
if i remember right u could just choose different path for character customization (please forgive me if i spelled that wrong or if that word doesn't excist).

there could be different paths leading to other things.

example: red mage

earth path:

different tiers, u can only select 1 spell/ability per tier but u can swap between the sub paths (marked as sub tiers)

earth magic path:
offensive Elemental path
sub tier1: stone V
sub tier2: earth offensive magic acc+
sub tier3: earth magic attack bonus+
sub tier4: earth magic crit rate+
sub tier5: Stone VI

enfeebling path:
sub tier1: slow III
sub tier2: earth enfeebling magic macc+
sub tier3: earth enfeebling magic potency+
sub tier4: an ability that break can`t be broken by damage, increases duration
sub tier5: stop

enhancing path:
sub tier1: enearthga
sub tier2: earth enhancing magic potency+
sub tier3: earth-based magic cast time-
sub tier4: enhances duration of earth based enhancing magic
sub tier5: enearthga II

melee path:
sub tier1: new earth based ws
sub tier2: increases earth based ws dmg
sub tier3: increases earth based ws acc
sub tier4: adds critical hits to earth based ws
sub tier5: new earth based (AoE ws?)

now u can build as example a complete offensive earth magic based path or u build:
sub tier1: enearthga
sub tier2: earth elemental magic acc+
sub tier3: earth enfeebling magic potency+
sub tier4: earth magic crit rate+
sub tier5: stone VI

there would be 2 ways this could be done, either u can decide to do 1 path or u could build all elemental paths up to sub tier5.

for paladin i.e. could it be seperated in:
healing magic spells/abilitys
def skills
offensive skills
enhancing skills.
hate holding skills.

guess this would be a good way to customize the character.would be nice to get some feedback

Edit:
SE would need to adjust the resistances and actually make them work for a big difference in spells

[wish12oz]

There's 2 serious flaws with your ideas.
1 being that you want BSTs to be able to charm NMs. Sure, it would be hilarious holding NMs as a BST and loling about it, but come on.... SE would never go for that, and it would get really annoying after 2 days.
Second problem is throwing sucks badly, because of game mechanics and the way it works, and cannot be fixed to make it useful, and SE already stated they cannot add throwing WS's. So your ninja idea is no good.