A new craft

[Lemoncloak]

While talking to a few friends about the implementation of "a new tier of march that not all bards will get," the idea of a new craft came up.

The craft was "Scroll Writing." The premise was that you could craft scrolls used to learn magic or cast magic.

When an nq synthesis takes place, you typically get a consumable "scroll of instant X." If it were an enhancing magic spell, it would be of low potency. Debuffs would depend on macc to land, and damage spells could be subject to different MAB mechanics. When you HQ the scroll, you get the scroll that can teach the spell to the appropriate job.

You could limit it to a select set of tiers or open it up to all tiers of spells. Given the "stagger" system, it seems to me that the consumables that relate to particular spells could have demand but inventory space would make any more than a few undesirable to use in VW.

Nobody levels a craft in order to make worthless shit. This would be the same. In truth, the ability to make scrolls of instant blazespikes or scrolls of instant raise would be of limited value. However, the ability to get scrolls that can teach the spells to the appropriate levels via HQ synthesis might liven crafting up a bit.

[Godofgods]

oh goodie.. another craft to level...

Writing is a decent craft idea. I'm not sure i see SE ever implementing that tho, unless it was aimed at the new jobs. The balance of it all could be thrown a bit, depending on just what scrolls could be implemented.

[Kristal]

While talking to a few friends about the implementation of "a new tier of march that not all bards will get," the idea of a new craft came up.

The craft was "Scroll Writing." The premise was that you could craft scrolls used to learn magic or cast magic.

The craft already exists and is called "Blue Magic". It's also similar to the way some of the automaton attachments are crafted, using existing crafts.

Nobody levels a craft in order to make worthless shit.

99% of crafting recipes has been rendered obsolete by Abyssea and level cap rise, so yes, anyone leveling it is doing so for epeen and to make worthless shit. The other 1% is food, medicines, tools and the occasional synergy recipe like Chatoyant Staff.

Crafting utility 'spells' for procs can just as easily be done by the existing crafts, and you will never be able to power through Scrollcraft in a week to craft any spell worth more then 10k (which excludes Meteor and Arise).

[Sarick]

I pondered this idea a while back as well, I was thinking it's name was scribing. All crafts could use it as a sub. For main IMHO it'd use leather craft, cloth craft and alchemy as subs. Books need special parchments and inks after all.

Just my 2 cents.

[Caketime]

The craft already exists and is called "Blue Magic". It's also similar to the way some of the automaton attachments are crafted, using existing crafts.


99% of crafting recipes has been rendered obsolete by Abyssea and level cap rise, so yes, anyone leveling it is doing so for epeen and to make worthless shit. The other 1% is food, medicines, tools and the occasional synergy recipe like Chatoyant Staff.

Crafting utility 'spells' for procs can just as easily be done by the existing crafts, and you will never be able to power through Scrollcraft in a week to craft any spell worth more then 10k (which excludes Meteor and Arise).

Why do you hate fun so much?

[hiko]

99% of crafting recipes has been rendered obsolete by Abyssea and level cap rise, so yes, anyone leveling it is doing so for epeen and to make worthless shit. The other 1% is food, medicines, tools and the occasional synergy recipe like Chatoyant Staff.

lvl100+recipes are not obselete.

Why do you hate fun so much?

because (s)he think craft is not fun?

[Kristal]

Why do you hate fun so much?

Realistic expectations. Besides, it's fun shooting down bad ideas.

[Caketime]

Realistic expectations. Besides, it's fun shooting down bad ideas.

Realistic anything has nothing to do with an idea thread, we all know the likelihood of anything getting implemented is abysmally low, why point out the obvious? How very boring of you.