Quarter Jobs

[Flyinghippress]

This idea was talked about a ton back at 75 as well. Personally never see it coming. At least currently we have the illusion of choice of subjobs but with that there would be even more distinct cookie-cutter combinations. Not to mention everyone and their great aunt Susie would be DRK/SAM/WAR or WHM/RDM/SCH. Only DD needed, only cures needed. Sure it sounds nice on paper to have an additional sub of a sub but in execution it would be way overpowered unless the extra subs were nerfed pretty hard in which case why bother implement them at all?

[Kristal]

99/66/33 I think would be more fun.

=3

Or 99/49/33 (1/1, 1/2, 1/3).

RDM Phalanx is level 33. That alone should be enough to convince the devs to go along with it.

[svengalis]

To much confusion that's all I will say about this. If they implement this then people will be asking for a 3rd subjob.

[Vivivivi]

Why not a simpler approach that the FFIV remake took- You could merit maybe 1-3 abilities from any level 99 job to be used by any other level 99 job. To prevent it from being ridiculously overpowered, you could go with your original suggestion of capping it at level 25 or w/e.

I don't think that would be game breaking, and it would be really convenient to have provoke on all jobs, or even access to drain samba 1 all the time or Light Arts / Addendum White (with only up to level 24 spells).

[Siviard]

Why don't we have a math guru conjure up the different possible job combinations (well, ones that would be likely job combos anyway) and show us some numbers to see if it would make our jobs overpowered.

A few I have in mind....

99 PLD / 49 RDM / 24 WAR

99 THF / 49 DNC / 24 NIN

99 SCH / 49 RDM / 24 WHM

[Komori]

What use would SCH/RDM have for /WHM? I don't think it would add that many spells besides barspells. I would personally as a mage always do //BLM so that I can always have warp, that alone would make this delicious.

[Siviard]

What use would SCH/RDM have for /WHM? I don't think it would add that many spells besides barspells. I would personally as a mage always do //BLM so that I can always have warp, that alone would make this delicious.

I was just tossing that job combo out there. Was thinking SCH/RDM/WHM so that if you were in Addendum: Black mode and you quickly needed to spam a bunch of Paralyna, you could do it without having to waste a few possibly precious moments switching over to Addendum: White. Also the Barspellras, and Deodorize. Gotta keep those stinky Galkas in check!

[Komori]

Ah, I guess that's true...

I guess I just typically only use my SCH for Voidwatch (procs). Or to heal groups so I'm always on Addenum: White anyway, if there's something to be nuked I do it on my BLM which I'm familiar with.

[Mathieu]

Why not a simpler approach that the FFIV remake took- You could merit maybe 1-3 abilities from any level 99 job to be used by any other level 99 job. To prevent it from being ridiculously overpowered, you could go with your original suggestion of capping it at level 25 or w/e.

That's still overpowered because many jobs are subbed for just one or two abilities. It's not changing the inherent flaws with adding a third subjob, if anything, it makes it worse if this would allow you to merit abilities from multiple jobs at the same time.

[Vandheer]

With level 99/49/24 heres the // that i have come up with that most jobs would use and what each would give.

//WAR (Berserk and Provoke [Berserk with COR or RNG sounds bad ass])
//MNK (Dodge, Boost, and Counter)
//THF (Evasion Bonus and Sneak Attack for some scenarios)
//RDM (MAB and Regen)
//BLM (MAB, Warp, Elemental Seal)
//WHM (Divine Seal and basic WHM spells)
//DRK (Last Resort and Weapon Bash)
//NIN (Dual Wield and Utsusemi)
//DRG (Jump [not bad with a good amount of Store TP])
//SCH (Penury, Parsimony and Addendum: White)

Food for thought. ^^