So -- no one truly multi-classes, right?

[MaloraYuki]

I main both brd and astro. I plan on adding pld to the mix. They don't use the same stats or anything like that and one obviously gets geared before the others. However I don't find it that hard to play more than one class on my main character if that's what you are getting at?

[RaijinSupreme]

And i have been gearing up a dragoon (main), paladin, and an astro. I mainly do this for my FC, just to make sure we have all the roles covered if needed, and also to shorten queue times.

I mainly play as a dragoon, but i'll queue as a tank if i don't feel like waiting for a queue.

[Atlas-04]

Gearing up a second or third class can take awhile. You only have so many tomes and gear drops per week from end game content. I have several classes at 60 to use a variety in roulette but only working on Monk in terms of getting the best gear.

[RaijinSupreme]

That is only for SMN/SCH.

since they share the same class, they also share the permanent bonus attribute stats as well. It was a mistake that the developer even pointed out.

But that isn't the case for the other classes. They each get their own permanent bonus stats.

[Malzian]

I'm a newish player just past 50 in my first class (I just played for the free month last year and then quit, so I only have a month of play under my belt despite having a join date of a year ago). I'm a Summoner, and plan to swap to Scholar once I max out and get to know the game well enough to trust myself to do more than DPS.

I understand that change will require paying to swap out all the permanent stat points I've been allocating level by level from INT to MND. That's fine, but it makes me think that the game's ability to level every class on a single character is really sort of pointless.

Sure, you want to level the classes for your cross-class skills, and you could have a character who was level 60 in WHM, BLM, PLD and BRD -- but that character would be a hopeless gimp, because he could only have the right base stats for one of those classes.

You can feasibly level all the jobs that have the same core stat -- BLM and SUM for example, or WHM and SCH -- but does anyone at max level actually play more than one role on the same character? Is that a pipe dream?

Or, does 100,000 GC seals become a trivial price to pay once you're maxed out and running high-level dungeons all the time, so paying to swap your stats for different roles every time you switch from one job to another is not a big deal?

I have everything at cap and will maintain that through whatever expansions we get, personally. I main PLD and run BRD as my secondary. While I don't necessarily 'play' all of the jobs (mostly because gearing that many jobs to current content is almost impossible), I do find it nice that if I'm in a group that needs something specific and can't find something to cover that role but can find other roles, I can always say 'Well I can switch to that role if need-be.' It's more of a flexibly option for me that allows me to get into content runs I might not be able to get into with my main two, but I'd say it's hardly something for everyone.

[bounddreamer]

As already noted, each different job/class has stat pools that are independent of the others. ACN is the only hybrid class that has two different job paths, and even the option to do both by doing all the job quests to 60.

As a SMN and SCH you're going to naturally play one more than the other. I have a 60 SCH and SMN as well. If you're a casual player you can simply gear both jobs and switch back and forth as you like. The SMN gear set will pretty much make up the difference for the base stats you respecc'ed into Mind.

If you're a min/max player you can keep a stack of Keepers Hymns handy and reset your stats every time you switch from SCH to SMN or vice versa.

I have all the jobs, and I've got them all geared enough to do basic endgame content. It's nice to be able to jump in on whatever role is needed. But as you play, you find yourself narrowing in on the jobs you prefer most, and for me it's WAR, AST, and DRG, with a side helping of very casual BRD.

[Niraye]

most players that play summoner / scholar that i know (my self included) carry hymns on us to reallocate when we're on the other side of that class, that way we dont have to worry about the issues of not enough heals not enough dps crap ^^

[Miles_Maelstrom]

. . .
Huh. I would love to do that but I would be scared of getting yelled at in the Duty Finder. I'm never planning to run in very hardcore company -- but even in casual contexts you tend to run into folks who get mad that you're undergeared or whatever. You don't encounter that yourself?

Not many people take much note in those stats. It be very difficult to notice if you had them completely allocated wrong or not at all. You clearly come from a wow background with how scared you are of others in every content going through you with a fine tooth comb.

The only place those points might matter is early progression of the new content raid savage. You'll be doing that with a static and most likely be playing one job anyway.

[bounddreamer]

I had everything in Mind and reallocated to Int, and there wasn't a noticeable increase in my SMN dps. So I reallocated to Mind and haven't bothered with it since. But I don't raid on SMN, I only do casual content. I've never had an issue with my SMN dps in dungeons.

[Hexprone]

What about putting all your points in INT, but then just leaving Cleric Stance on all the time (unless DPSing) when playing as a Scholar? :P