Job System details

[Felis]

What would you like more in your full party raid?
1 CON and 1 THM as hybrid classes or 1 CON and 1 THM spezialised as BLM and WHM to save your group better and help killing faster?

[Travesty]

What would you like more in your full party raid?
1 CON and 1 THM as hybrid classes or 1 CON and 1 THM spezialised as BLM and WHM to save your group better and help killing faster?

That's not really the equation. It's more like, what would you want, 1 BLM and 1 WHM, or 8 people with Cure and Damage spells, who also attack and do everything else.

Think of it like percentages. If 1 WHM fulfills the "WHM role" at 100% efficiency, but 4 hybrid classes fulfill the role at even just 30% efficiency each, that's still 20% more "WHM powa" than the single WHM.

Of course that's a very rough kind of analysis, but you get what I'm saying.

[ChiefCurrahee]

That's not really the equation. It's more like, what would you want, 1 BLM and 1 WHM, or 8 people with Cure and Damage spells, who also attack and do everything else.

Think of it like percentages. If 1 WHM fulfills the "WHM role" at 100% efficiency, but 4 hybrid classes fulfill the role at even just 30% efficiency each, that's still 20% more "WHM powa" than the single WHM.

Of course that's a very rough kind of analysis, but you get what I'm saying.

But then those classes could be losing out on some other aspect.

you can have 1 whm focusing on their job, or have 4 people doing it. But those 4 people are also supposed to be DD, so every time they toss a cure they lose out on an attack round.

I dunno about you, but when I play Lancer I don't want to stuck healing unless its vital for the PT's survival. Same goes when I play any melee class sans Gladiator because Cures are an awesome provoke.

[Travesty]

But then those classes could be losing out on some other aspect.

you can have 1 whm focusing on their job, or have 4 people doing it. But those 4 people are also supposed to be DD, so every time they toss a cure they lose out on an attack round.

Yes, they'd be losing out on other aspects, just like every other party member, because they are a jack of all trades. That's my point. A jack of all trades never is going to be the best at 1 thing. But are 8 of them going to be good enough at everything to make it so that a best of 1 thing is not needed.

Think of it this way. If you compare mathematically a party of 8 hybrid classes to one with 8 Jobs, each of the hybrid classes has to perform at 12.5% of the efficiency of a role that 1 of the jobs is taking. Obviously they're not all going to match that % exactly in equal amounts, but you have to wonder why 8 jack of all trades won't be able to collectively perform the same way or better than a group of 8 defined Jobs can.

I dunno about you, but when I play Lancer I don't want to stuck healing unless its vital for the PT's survival. Same goes when I play any melee class sans Gladiator because Cures are an awesome provoke.

Obviously people who want to DD aren't going to want to cure, but if it's a more efficient way to get things done then that might not matter.