Patch 1.18: Miscellaneous Adjustments (07/14/2011)

[Mug]

Well, say that THM would indeed get WHM, he would have no Cure, Protect, Shell, Poisona, Paralyna etc, which would make absolutely no sense if they want to keep the job somewhat traditional.

If the plan is to make THM a healer, they should, in my humble opinion, call it something else than WHM.

[Anonymoose]

Well, say that THM would indeed get WHM, he would have no Cure, Protect, Shell, Poisona, Paralyna etc, which would make absolutely no sense if they want to keep the job somewhat traditional.

If the plan is to make THM a healer, they should, in my humble opinion, call it something else than WHM.

Truth be told, I'm incredibly curious to know what they will end up assigning these classes for jobs. I'm by no means fighting for THM to be the WHM - don't get me wrong there. I'm simply defending the DevTeam's decision to give raise responsibilities to the job who will make better use of it at the present moment.

As for the issue you're concerned with, it wouldn't make sense for either of those classes to be called by either of those job titles.

The only thing that would make sense, imo, would be allowing both to choose their own path - for a conjurer to fall to the dark side, or a thaumaturge to find the worship of death to enhance the value of life. It'd be tricky letting both classes have access to both jobs, but aside from a MASSIVE retconning of both storylines and ability repertoires (which would ruin them in my opinion) I don't see any other option.

Perhaps someone could start a thread on this?

[Alcide]

Well, say that THM would indeed get WHM, he would have no Cure, Protect, Shell, Poisona, Paralyna etc, which would make absolutely no sense if they want to keep the job somewhat traditional.

If the plan is to make THM a healer, they should, in my humble opinion, call it something else than WHM.

Well say that THM is BLM, he wouldn't have any elemental nuke... they still have to move some spells, the difference is that lore wise THM fits better WHM and CON is a perfect BLM.
Also the AoE are definitely toward CON>BLM, THM>WHM.

[Anonymoose]

Well say that THM is BLM, he wouldn't have any elemental nuke... they still have to move some spells, the difference is that lore wise THM fits better WHM and CON is a perfect BLM.
Also the AoE are definitely toward CON>BLM, THM>WHM.

See what I mean? Good points all around. Gonna be a challenge.

So since there is a "logical", but not an "exclusive" connection between jobs and classes, freedom would be maintained within reasonable constraints.

This could have been if not for the fact that, in an interview I'm too lazy to go dig up, I do believe that Yoshida-san did, in fact, say that it would be "One job per one class," and that if they did let jobs equip different weapons, it would be an afterthought and one that came a long way down the road.