FFXIV Homebrew

[Nyghtmarerobu]

Did you look at his Valkyrie skills, though? It would work great with the Lancer base class.

I did and no it wouldn't. Take a look at all the skills lancer already has, and giving a vast majority of those would create a huge disparity between all tanks. Blood for Blood and Invigorate are the main ones for sure. The other part to that is, like I stated before, the base job has to offer something to the role itself, and changing roles from class to job makes it tricky. Arcanist to Scholar is a prime example. Arcanist gets a healing skill at lvl 4, which isn't a dps skill, but its needed for scholar as a whole to survive. Lancer has nothing to give to valkyrie for tanking moves besides Keen Flurry, unless there was a drastic change to the class overall, changing skills to compliment its new tank role job branch. And on top of that, if we change to much and take away to many skills or change to many skills, Dragoon as a job suffer from the changes to its combos and skill set. This is the whole of what I'm trying to explain. OP's overall concept is great, I like the idea of branching jobs, but on the whole of it, the Class and Job system all together would need a huge rework to accomodate, and I don't think SE will go for that, but as he wants it, the only REAL way I can see this working is if the Class and Jobs attached to that class had different levels. Example: Lancer 30, Valkyrie 1. or Lancer 50, Dragoon 60. This way you could give them more skills to work with from 1-60 on the crystal, but then we start skill bloat and all that jazz, but I won't get into that..