FFXIV Homebrew

[Nyghtmarerobu]

I like the idea of branching classes like summoner and scholar, but there are problems that arise with the way skills work in relation to the jobs themselves.

The way the current system works is that the lvl 1-50 skills are for the arcanist class, and by extension, can be used for the jobs that branch off of that base class, summoner and scholar. With this in mind, it makes it hard to balance skills for classes and jobs alike, since they share them, and if the roles change, it makes it even harder to balance and maintain. I'm going to use your Lancer example with Valkyrie as a new job. You have to make skills especially for tanking and dps into the lancer class so that it will build into both. Much like Arcanist having skills for healing built into it so that Scholar has some things to work with. Without physik, and res built into arcanist, they'd have to put those on the actual acholar crystal, leading to less skills they have as they level up and progress.