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    Enkidoh's Avatar
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    Enkidoh Roux
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    Balmung
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    Paladin Lv 90
    Another thing about Cure and Physick being virtually the same spell is that it is simply a result of how SE have designed the start of the game with starting city locked to the guild location of a class, while also locking access to the Limsa Lominsa - Vesper Bay ferry until the player gains their airship pass at level 15.

    Before then, those who start in Limsa Lominsa (i.e. ACN and MRD) are therefore stuck on Vlybrand until they've progressed sufficiently in the story, meaning they would be unable to access Gridania to gain the CNJ class and therefore learn healing magic (ala, Cure) to cross class, unlike those in Ul'dah who can simply hike it to Gridania on foot or hire a chocobo after they've unlocked the Armoury System. Hence Physick's low-level acquisition by ACN.

    This is also why no class in Ul'dah gains effective healing abilities of their own, other than PGL's Second Wind, which due to it's high recast time is not very effective for solo healing other than for an emergency.

    I'm not too concerned at them both being copies of each other (other than Cure being able to proc FreeCure), but maybe ACN and it's Jobs could get a trait that boosts it's effectiveness like how CNJ gets MND boosts for Cure potency would make it more useful on it's native class.
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    Last edited by Enkidoh; 04-23-2014 at 11:03 PM.

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    KoujiMoreno's Avatar
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    Soi Fong
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    Ragnarok
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    Conjurer Lv 50
    Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
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    So basically SE did stuff and didn't think it out.
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    givemeraptors's Avatar
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    Felendis Vreer
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    Leviathan
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    Arcanist Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by KoujiMoreno View Post
    So basically SE did stuff and didn't think it out.
    Really the opposite here...they did think it out and implemented a second spell...
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