The harp is a lie.

[Ferth]

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Your tone says arguing... but your points are really the same as my points.

Thanks to anonymoose for the link and the quote from Yoshi about Job upgrades.

But a level 30 archer with the bard job activated however you choose to say it is still a level 30 character, and now we get back to the bigger issue of bard skills and archer skills not being overly compatible. You are contradicting your point about archer unlocking bard... because now it isn't unlocking bard and you can choose one or the other... you are an archer and suddenly you start playing the harp too... they are completely different skill sets.

And that's the crux of the debate, and the crux of my dissatisfaction with the proposed job system. Right now I can turn my gladiator into a pseudo paladin, I can learn protect, shell, cure, I can distribute my attributes so I have a decent MP pool. In practice I'm functioning as a paladin.

If they are going to add the job paladin I'd like it to rely on the class system more than just getting gladiator to a certain level and doing a quest. It makes sense that if I level up Gladiator and level up Conjurer I can take skills from both of those classes to unlock the paladin job.

If they are going to add instrument use to the game I'd much rather see them implementing the class system to do it. Introduce a minstrel or a musician class and then have it be one of the required classes to unlock the bard job... if another of those classes happens to be archer that's ok.