Classes & Jobs

[Tempast]

BLM is getting a few ancient magic spells back.

[Colino]

and have the job system like FFXI.

This is where I stop reading and shake my head.

[Rannie]

BLM is getting a few ancient magic spells back.

heh... heh... heh.... black mage tank here i come WOOOOOT!

[Tempast]

This is where I stop reading and shake my head.

lol, get over it.

[Doho]

something that's been on my mind.

we hear and read that the classes will be more suitable for solo play while the jobs will be more suitable for party play. but really.. how believable is this. like in what scenario would it be better to be a Thaumaturge over a BLM? i'm just not seeing it... for some classes i guess it makes sense. *shrug*

[syntaxlies]

something that's been on my mind.

we hear and read that the classes will be more suitable for solo play while the jobs will be more suitable for party play. but really.. how believable is this. like in what scenario would it be better to be a Thaumaturge over a BLM? i'm just not seeing it... for some classes i guess it makes sense. *shrug*

this was the point i was making about needing to balance classes to actually be better at soloing. for mages they should get a def boost, or access to lth armor or somthing.

[Tempast]

something that's been on my mind.

we hear and read that the classes will be more suitable for solo play while the jobs will be more suitable for party play. but really.. how believable is this. like in what scenario would it be better to be a Thaumaturge over a BLM? i'm just not seeing it... for some classes i guess it makes sense. *shrug*

Well what if BLM has access to only some of the THM spells/skills AND NO access to any other spells/skills from any other classes?



-- Though I do agree with you, and doubt the above scenario will be how the system actually works.

[Felis]

something that's been on my mind.

we hear and read that the classes will be more suitable for solo play while the jobs will be more suitable for party play. but really.. how believable is this. like in what scenario would it be better to be a Thaumaturge over a BLM? i'm just not seeing it... for some classes i guess it makes sense. *shrug*

You play solo against 3 enemies. No cure, no second wind, no stone skin. Would you not wish to changed back to THM before? ^^

[elreed]

Do we need both a class and job system? Why not just ditch classes and have the job system like FFXI. I honestly don't see the need or the attraction to have both. Anyway that is just my opinion. I'd really like to know what others think on the subject.

As i said in other threads i would imagine jobs as especialized roles for parties, a BLM should have all the offensive spells like thunder, blizzard, fire, aero, water and their tiers for combo but might not be able to equip any cure spells at all, well at least thats the fair thing, so in a party it could do double the dmg than a thm but wont be able to help healing, and same thing for whm all the healing spells at their disposal but no nuking at all.

So class=solo
job=party

[MartaDemireux]

Only thing I worry about is putting Regen on people while sacrificing my ability to use Sentinel and Chameleon :\

Certainly hope some abilities will be universal.