Giving each job a second spec: would it work?

[Saggo]

Summoner and Scholar were their attempt at a specialisation within a class and it turned out to be a terrible decision

People keep saying this, but SMN and SCH are amazingly successful.

[SpecialKK]

I think this has to be done in next xpac. I can't imagine getting five new buttons to add to my rotation as a DRG

[Xairos]

I don't think any blm would pick a dot focused dps as opposed to the big numbers they already pull. If they did, they would just play summoner.

[Kallera]

There's already a push to make healers and tanks move into dps territory. Its not out of the ballpark for dps to receive similar treatment (coughDNCcough)

[Akiza]

Black Mage - Flare spell line
Summoner - Caller spell line
White Mage - Ultima spell line.

[Tuathaa]

They would need to add talent trees or multiple specializations to each job. Time and money waisted in a design feature which isn't needed because you can have all job/classes on 1 character.

[justinjarjar]

Design team has already said they dislike the idea SMN/SCH came out of 1.0's design team (very different). They both have plus and minuses and if the design team doesn't want to do and it adds little (new jobs at 30 seemed to be easy enough to level). If they wanted to do it sure fine no one would complain, most people are not complaining about the primarily one job per class (and now no class at all) for job, however since it is opinion based argument where the devs have already made their stance clear.

[MageBlack]

They did this, but only with one class, the Arcanist. If they do do this, it will not be in the way you and others are hoping for. It will be a new job stone that will branch off at level 30 into something a little different.

What I think would be awesome and pretty much the only way we will get the level of customization people want from the current systems is if they made and Onion Knight job where once you equipped the job stone, you would have full access to your entire compliment of skills and traits to pick and choose and effectively build your own class/job. the only caveat will have to be the designation of role so DF can place you in a party. I think there would also need to be other barriers in place such as requiring players to have all DoW and DoM classes at max level and this is something that can only really work as one of the final jobs they add to the game though.

Thoughts?

[justinjarjar]

Thoughts?

Cool in a single player game, would be broken in an mmo. Would only see Onion Knight played unless it had huge set backs. Could see it now traited BfB, Raging Strikes, and the mudras needed to make huton. Make the ultimate dps (or tank, healer, etc.). Could be cool to also run someone with all the debuffs (or could make a cool job tons of examples in FF history) just to keep them up.

[LunaHoshino]

No. All that would happen would be that players would figure out which specs were best for which content and then start excluding players who didn't have those specs. I've seen it happen before.