Red Mage, again?

[Tanarkus]

Scholar and Summoner share the same base class, Arcanist, which means that whatever stats you set for one will be the same for the other.

This is a really big problem considering Summoner uses Intelligence while Scholar uses Mind. You either max one and gimp the other, or you half-ass both of them. Neither is a good solution.

OK. I just purchased a bonus stat point respec from my GC, so I didn't notice. Guess that matters only if you intend to keep swapping between summoner and scholar.

[ErikMynhier]

You know what would be funny and just drive people crazy? If they made Red Mage a great class. For the sake of argument a DPS with a heavy bit of support, really great skills, high end damage spells, cool looking melee DPS, even some healing and party healing spells, the works.... but in keeping with the lore of the Red Mage they make a third its skills INT, a third MND, and the other third STR. Make players split their bonus points three ways.... 3 Primary stats.

The Red Mage is a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of none.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

You know what would be funny and just drive people crazy? If they made Red Mage a great class. For the sake of argument a DPS with a heavy bit of support, really great skills, high end damage spells, cool looking melee DPS, even some healing and party healing spells, the works.... but in keeping with the lore of the Red Mage they make a third its skills INT, a third MND, and the other third STR. Make players split their bonus points three ways.... 3 Primary stats.

The Red Mage is a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of none.

Which makes them a great Tank. There is no such thing as a person who can do everything in this game unfortunately.

He would be either underpowered and nobody would want one, or overpowered and he would replace everyone if he could be everything.

[ErikMynhier]

Which makes them a great Tank. There is no such thing as a person who can do everything in this game unfortunately.

He would be either underpowered and nobody would want one, or overpowered and he would replace everyone if he could be everything.

Yeah man, I was just making light of how they could implement it and as they do with most jobs, make the community lose their minds. It would be like the Summoner/Scholar in the same job, it would be hilarious.

[Blueyes]

Oh no no no. That is nowhere NEAR enough said. Why should Scholar and Summoner be the only ones that need to pay 250 seals to be useful if you've played the other? From now on, let's make it so any class change sets the stats on the class you're going to in the worst possible stat for that class, so you have to reset and manually set them every time.

To be fair, I still feel like I'm cheating when I'm able to level both Scholar and Summoner at the same time. It would seem that convenience comes with a price which is the necessity to reallocate your attribute points if you truly wish to maximize both whenever you play one or the other. If experience became tied to the jobs themselves rather than class, perhaps then they would have separate attribute allocation. Or at least that seems to be SE's way of thinking.