So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

[Vexander]

Do Bards need to keep a stock of arrows? Or Machinists bullets? Or how about the wrenches MCH throw with Dismantle? Or wildfire bombs, or turrets that get destroyed. Or how about Warriors, Paladins, and Dragoons who all have abilities that throw their weapons only for them to instantly appear back in their hands?

No idea how the arrows work, I believe there was a comment of, "They just re-use them after each kill." As for MCH bullets, those are made from aether, likely the same as wildfire bombs, and destroyed turrets can be repaired. Warriors, Paladins, and Dragoons all summon their weapons back to them. Chemist would be the only case where their abilities would -literally- consume the materials without any chance of refund, recyle, repair, or re-use.

[Shippuu]

No idea how the arrows work, I believe there was a comment of, "They just re-use them after each kill." As for MCH bullets, those are made from aether, likely the same as wildfire bombs, and destroyed turrets can be repaired. Warriors, Paladins, and Dragoons all summon their weapons back to them. Chemist would be the only case where their abilities would -literally- consume the materials without any chance of refund, recyle, repair, or re-use.

The MCH bullets are not made of aether and certainly not their wildfire bombs which are clearly machinery, not to mention other ones I forgot, such as their grenado shot, and ricochet. Aether doesn't do that, it doesn't create complex machines out of thin air. A BRD can fire an infinite number of arrows without ever "collecting them". I guess Ninja's carry an infinite number of throwing daggers for their throw dagger and death blossom, or how about their fuma shuriken? You're making excuses at this point to hand wave away all the examples that prove your nitpicking to be the weak argument it is.


There is absolutely ways to explain even from a lore perspective on how or why a chemist's components aren't consumed. Something as simple as having a collection of items that when a type of aether is applied to them results in a certain thing happening yet doesn't destroy/consume the items involved, in which case they "retrieve" the items after throwing them just like how you tried to explain every other job that does it.

There's zero reason Chemist couldn't work when we have Machinist in this game.

[GMERC]

There doesn't even need to be a reason at all. Item catalysts just aren't a part of the game and there is no need to try and justify why you don't run out of potions just like there's no need to explain how your shield comes back after you use Shield Lob or, as stated before, how a Ninja doesn't rapidly run out of knives for Death Blossom.

Acting as though that is something that would make Chemist / Salve-maker less viable as a job is reaching.