[dev1033] Ideas for a Two-Tier Class System: Jobs on Top of Weapon Specializations

[Carpe]

I think you misunderstood what I ment by not having classes mix only titles. What I was trying to say was that you could bind skills to the title that were learnt from the class, so no matter what class you have equipped with that title you have that ability. The only limitation would be that only certain skills would be able to bind to the title. For instance drk could sub conj and have cure but you couldn't bind cure to drk and then equip thau and still have cure. But you could bind fire, blizzard, and thunder and use it with thau equipped, after unlocking them of course. It gives you a reason to level multiple jobs while giving your title the classic abilities inherent to that title. You could use the conj abilities you unlocked for either drk or blm, but with varying degrees of efficency.

Edit: to expand, if you were a gladiator you would not be able to equip cure from conj, I hope that makes more sense now ^^

I guess I was confused by what you meant by "binding" an ability to a title. This system already let's a DRK/GLA use CURE (as long as you unlocked it already) without the DRK having to equip /CON. It let's you swap abilities between weapon classes (subs) regardless of what title/class combination you are using.

Did you mean that you wouldn't want a DRK/GLA to be able to use cure without being a DRK/CON (I guess the reasoning would be that a DRK shouldn't share abilities between weapon classes that weren't characteristic for DRK, unless it dedicated itself to equiping the weapon that that ability came from).

You wouldn't have to "bind" them in that case all you would have to do is add the rule that a Title/Sub combo (ex. DRK/GLA) couldn't use abilities from another /Sub (anything other than /GLA) if it didn't favor that title (Cure doesn't favor DRK and is /CON not /GLA so that wouldn't be in the pool of abilities it could use from other classes, but Bio favors DRK so eventhough it isn't /GLA it could be used by DRK/GLA).

That would be more restrictive than the more open swapping this system allows. Here you can use Cure with a DRK/GLA it just isn't as strong as it would be for a WHM/CON or even a DRK/CON.