Ideas for Specialist System

[Silverbane]

Just give me one slot for materia in my Soul of the Specialist, the ability to overmeld it, and a meld cap for each stat of at least 8. That's all I want.

[Roth_Trailfinder]

As someone who would much rather not be forced into omnicrafting (but who likely will anyway due to the interconnected nature of material fabrication), I rather strongly disagree. I would very much like to be able to be competent as an ARM or BSM without having to level every other DoH class in the game to do so.

The system needs to be refined so that (1) the Specialist skills are able to be as potent as the omnicrafting skills, and (2) recipes are not restricted to only specialists. If those two things can be accomplished, the system can be saved. And really, those are very easy to fix.

I would like to see the Specailist stone grant access to, as regular and not cross class, all the other 21 level 15, 37, and 50 cross class skills from the other seven classes. That would make Specialist stones valuable, allow people who only take one or two classes up past 5 to compete (in the things that they can get materials for), and not require people to level all the classes just to be a specialist in one or two.

Concurrent to that, kill the "specialist only" flag on all specialist recipes.

[Kabooa]

Make Whistle while you Work free, but usable once per craft.
Bam, Specialist is worth it.

[Silverbane]

If Specialists got their own slightly-better version of Steady Hands II, that would be worth it.

Example: Hands of the Specialist, Cost 30 CP, Improves action success rate by 35% for the next five steps.

[OoglieBooglie]

Maybe they could make it impossible to make the items hq unless you're a specialist. That way I wouldn't have to pester people to make me pterodactyl leather, because screw paying 200k for it on the marketboard. If it's going to be like that, then I'm either asking a friend or not getting it at all, since it's only for glamour or sb gear anyway.