Discussion for Letter from the Producer LIVE Part XX

[Ultimatecalibur]

Bayohne has translated some of the live letter here.

Q8: Can you tell us the details of the specialist system?

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.

Specialization seems to be intended as an alternative to Omnicrafting. (i.e. you do not need all the cross class skills to craft all the recipes in your specializations)

Primal Weapons are going to be on a 1.X style Token system.