[dev1206] Class Reforms & Action Lists

[Kafeen]

PLease don't forget that Classes > Jobs at the same time Jobs > Classes.

Its all circumstantial if its just me and two friends in a party doing leves or something along those lines then I am going to probably suggest we all be classes since we will have the most freedom to equip ANY NON-EXCLUSIVE ability/spell/weapon skill that could potentially make us stronger and able to do said content.

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If I am in a full party I will probably suggest we all be our Jobs since they are more specialized and we have the man power needed to not have to spread out our abilities.

Because don't forget a Dragoon (job) will probably not be able to equip any of the healing spells/abilities, while the Lancer (class) will be able to. (See now, where the class is better than the job?) On the other hand Dragoon (job) gets access to special abilities that no other job can use, so in a big party setup wherein you won't need those healing spells because you have people covering it already, you can afford to be a job instead of class to dish out even more damage.

They both have very equal pros and cons. And if you think that people are going to demand jobs for bigger events/battles, then you are probably correct, but does that mean it will be 100% required. No, just make your own party, but I can see large group events being job driven while small group events being class driven.

Where has it been said they jobs can't use cross-class abilities?

From what we've heard, I haven't seen anything to suggest that jobs loose anything from their respective class, just that they enhance a specific aspect of that class to a given role.

[NadienKirisame]

Where has it been said they jobs can't use cross-class abilities?

From what we've heard, I haven't seen anything to suggest that jobs loose anything from their respective class, just that they enhance a specific aspect of that class to a given role.

Well there was this....

For example, paladin will be a really special job for tanking. To make sure that he gets those abilities, he will need do more different quests to get those abilities. You are going to protect others, but that’s not all. You have the marauder as a background class before you become a paladin. Those kind of class abilities will be connected to the paladin job. Even if you had more classes in the past, these are not related to the paladin and can’t be used.

Which was in this interview http://jpgames.de/2011/10/jpgames-de...naoki-yoshida/

I can try and look through more of the interviews and find more if you really need me to...

Pretty much the way it goes you equip a job and lose most of your crossclass abilities. The way I took this from the many interviews was that whatever two classes it takes to get the job the main class GLD you will have all the abilities plus all the PLD abilities you unlocked however you can only pull a few select abilities from MRD but no other classes.

I hope this helps.

The cat is bemused =-.-=