High Magic Potency Weapons for All Weapon Classes.

[Cairdeas]

Currently Magic Potency is the stat that allows for a user to be more effective with casting spells. It is essentially something along the lines of Attack Power for Physical Attacks.

In general though Melee weapons have a limit to how high their Magic Potency goes, a huge majority of them never see above 5. While most Mage Weapon Classes see 50+ on their Magic Potency.

As a result to be a decent magic user you are limited to Mage Weapon Classes only, so properly filling the roles of a Hybrid Job like Paladin, Dark Knight, White Monk, Holy Dragoon are very difficult.

To rectify this, a series of weapons needs to be released that gives access to Higher Magic Potency at the expensive of total Attack Power or a negative to Physical Accuracy.

These would be similar to the Rune Weapons from FFXI, They were Melee weapons most/all magic Jobs or Hybrids could use and would use the Mages stats (and MP) to pay for extra damage or other hidden side effects.

I Feel these types of weapons would help allow some players to properly portray Hybrid Job/Class Combinations.



Examples:
Current:
Banneret Lance Rank 48
Attack: 171
Accuracy: 133
Critical Hit Rate: 144
Parrying: 144
Magic Potency: 14
Magic Accuracy: 118
Damage Type:
Piercing: 100%

A crafter can imbue it with Magical Ability

Holy Banneret Lance Rank 48
Attack: 90
Accuracy: 105
Critical Hit Rate: 144
Parrying: 80
Magic Accuracy: 118
Magic Potency: 126
Damage Type:
Piercing: 80%
Fire: 10%
Wind: 10%

[Veronica]

This sounds like a great idea.
Right now the only way to up your spell damage as a melee is affinity (like that +10 conj affinity)

[Cairdeas]

There are some accessories that increase Magic Potency, but they are limited.

[NoMX]

Not much of a fan of this idea. Why do melee classes need to be able to use spells at the same effectiveness of magic classes when magic classes can't do the same with melee skills? Seems kind of silly. Besides, nukes reeeally suck in this game to begin with, so you aren't missing anything. Beyond 30 you're better off using your dart or AOE dart 90% of the time, with only a few exceptions.

[viion]

Just bring out specific magic that can only be equipped by specific classes and isnt tied to magic potency?

eg. Holy

[NoMX]

Just bring out specific magic that can only be equipped by specific classes and isnt tied to magic potency?

eg. Holy

Well, they already have some. One example is Shadowsear. Nobody can use it but THM.

[Cairdeas]

That doesn't allow for True Hybrid Job/Class combinations.