Client Side Mudras

[Meleoffs]

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Think of it like this: In Lineage 2, you had your first "class", caster or fighter. At around level 20 you would pick up a quest that would allow you to advance to a more specialized class: tank, physical dps, caster dps, and healer. At 40 you would then choose your final classes which specialize you further: Tank, melee, physical ranged, caster dps, pet caster dps, caster/melee support, healer. At around level 75 you would upgrade that final class into a stronger version of said class.

The job system in FFXIV works much the same way outside of giving you an ultra generalized starting class and opts to put you at the level 40 version of your class. The jobs are nothing more than enhancements to your final choice. In this respect SMN is an enhancement to arcanist where SCH feels like it was just tacked onto a dps class. That's why people have SCH dps vs having another healer dps. They are just capable of more.