Thread: Specialist System in 3.0

Confirmed max 3 classes to specialize in, meaning we need 3 alts. What a bloody waste of time.

Edit: From my understanding however, it seems as thought we won't need alts. Specialist does not introduce new recipes. Those are tied to level. All it introduces are unique skills to choose from. If that is the case, we may no need alts. But correct me if i am wrong please.

Source: The live letter that was released this morning. I can understand some Japanese. Not fluent tho.

Originally Posted by ZephyrZ

Confirmed max 3 classes to specialize in, meaning we need 3 alts. What a bloody waste of time.

Edit: From my understanding however, it seems as thought we won't need alts. Specialist does not introduce new recipes. Those are tied to level. All it introduces are unique skills to choose from. If that is the case, we may no need alts. But correct me if i am wrong please.

Source? Don't really see why you'd need alts either way.

Edit: Thanks for the source.

I just wanted to expand on my previous comment. In the amount of time 3 crafters would spend leveling 2 alts to have all the specializations on a single account wouldn't it be more efficient if those 3 crafters worked together and each focused on 2-3 complementary specializations and made enough mats for their circle as a whole?

A8: The specialist system is a new system for Disciples of the Hand, and you’ll be able to undertake a quest to become a specialist from level 55. It’ll be possible to become a specialist in three classes of your choice. By using “scrips” you’ll be able to change which classes you specialize in afterwards. By setting a specialist class, you’ll be able to learn special actions. Currently, in order to make some of the higher difficulty recipes, there is a necessity to level various classes for their actions, and we feel that the difficulty has spiked a bit. We plan to improve this through the specialist system, so you can think of this system as something that will allow you to broaden your options by either playing as the classes you really like or enabling you to use all of the classes.

It's definitely not what I had predicted earlier, but this is a substantial departure from what was said in previous interviews where they had said new recipes would be linked to the Specialist system (which they are NOT saying here). What it sounds like is for classes you are not specialized in, it'll be about what we are used to in terms of hardcore crafting rotations needing all the cross class skills. The Specialist system will give skills powerful enough to make up for not having all the cross class skills.

Originally Posted by giantslayer

It's definitely not what I had predicted earlier, but this is a substantial departure from what was said in previous interviews where they had said new recipes would be linked to the Specialist system (which they are NOT saying here). What it sounds like is for classes you are not specialized in, it'll be about what we are used to in terms of hardcore crafting rotations needing all the cross class skills. The Specialist system will give skills powerful enough to make up for not having all the cross class skills.

It was never said specialist was linked to actual recipes, that was nothing more than an assumption others made. It also wasn't mentioned this time, so it may or may not be true. Means that it is still worth leveling at least one alt to 50. This seems a lot like everyone will have let's say 12 available cross class skills and 3 available specialist skills. Meaning specialist is mainly used to give more available options when it comes towards crafting rotations.

Originally Posted by ZephyrZ

It was never said specialist was linked to actual recipes, that was nothing more than an assumption others made. It also wasn't mentioned this time, so it may or may not be true. Means that it is still worth leveling at least one alt to 50.

It was said in the Famitsu interview. There are two translations out there for that interview and they both rendered it approximately the same:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...ast_interview/
"With the new system, once you're at 60, you can then become an apprentise to each respective guilds' guildmaster. You'll gain new skills and recipes by becoming a meister/specialist."
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/125...29-Translation
"After you finish training, you'll be able to choose a profession to qualify as a Specialist which may provide a special action or special recipes."

I'd like to think that was something misspoken and that recipes are not included. The Live Letter is really a much more formal channel than an interview, so I would place more weight on the Live Letter.

Originally Posted by ZephyrZ

This seems a lot like everyone will have let's say 12 available cross class skills and 3 available specialist skills. Meaning specialist is mainly used to give more available options when it comes towards crafting rotations.

I don't expect it to be worth it to have Alts. I can basically guarantee you the Specialist abilities will NOT be cross class. The whole point is to get away from the current system where crafters who don't extensively cross class are useless. Those of us who have all the cross class skills and can craft top level stuff currently should still be able to continue to do so at a comparable difficulty in classes we are not specialized in.

Think Specialist system = boost for casual / single-class crafters.