Housing idea : Blue Mage

[Mirallia]

Obviously, I had not figured all of it, hence why I'm posting on these forums, so we can have a creative discussion as a community :P

That job would not be crafter per se. Rather, it would be a "gatherer" I think.

Let's say I really really like the vase by the orchestrion in the Kugane inn. I go there, do my thing, and I have % chance of being able to get the vase myself so I can decorate my house with it.

I did mention crafting and schematics in my OP, but that would only be in the event the creators wouldn't want to crash the housing crafting market by allowing everything to be taken easily. So, for instance, instead of getting that vase, I would get schematics, which I could sell on the mb for crafters to craft the item by learning the schematics.

It could also just be that you get an item once, and if the game let's get more than one, you have to redo the thing to get it again.

What I'm trying to say it that I find how housing items are made accessible so restrictive, so linear. The only way to be creative and to decor out of the box is to use hundreds of items to make it look a certain way. I mean, I'm not saying that's not fun, cause it's challenging and it takes time, but it's also very restrictive in the themes department. I think the opportunities would be endless if we could access furniture in a different way.

[Wiccan026]

Obviously, I had not figured all of it, hence why I'm posting on these forums, so we can have a creative discussion as a community :P

That job would not be crafter per se. Rather, it would be a "gatherer" I think.

Let's say I really really like the vase by the orchestrion in the Kugane inn. I go there, do my thing, and I have % chance of being able to get the vase myself so I can decorate my house with it.

I did mention crafting and schematics in my OP, but that would only be in the event the creators wouldn't want to crash the housing crafting market by allowing everything to be taken easily. So, for instance, instead of getting that vase, I would get schematics, which I could sell on the mb for crafters to craft the item by learning the schematics.

It could also just be that you get an item once, and if the game let's get more than one, you have to redo the thing to get it again.

What I'm trying to say it that I find how housing items are made accessible so restrictive, so linear. The only way to be creative and to decor out of the box is to use hundreds of items to make it look a certain way. I mean, I'm not saying that's not fun, cause it's challenging and it takes time, but it's also very restrictive in the themes department. I think the opportunities would be endless if we could access furniture in a different way.

I get that you want a new accessible way to get items for housing and I suppose they could always create a class for that (although I wouldn't want them to take resources to use on such a character but that's because I'd rather have the existing crafters/gatherers than have more)... I do however know that it would be better of as something else altogether.

Or in simpler terms attaching a blue mage job to this would just cause rioting.

[Mirallia]

I get that you want a new accessible way to get items for housing and I suppose they could always create a class for that (although I wouldn't want them to take resources to use on such a character but that's because I'd rather have the existing crafters/gatherers than have more)... I do however know that it would be better of as something else altogether.

Or in simpler terms attaching a blue mage job to this would just cause rioting.

I agree for the Blue Mage, I have to admit I used the name to have a catchy title to my OP. However, the general concept does feel like the BLU abilities of getting an ability by learning it from something else and duplicating it.

[Penthea]

I agree for the Blue Mage, I have to admit I used the name to have a catchy title to my OP. However, the general concept does feel like the BLU abilities of getting an ability by learning it from something else and duplicating it.

I think it would be better if your suggestion was something used to expand current gatherers and crafters rather than create a new class for this function. The idea is cool, but the blue mage part is unneeded and plainly not good. Blue mage is a very iconic class in the FF series. There would be gigantic backlash if it wasn't a combat class in FFXIV.