Thread: Realistic 5.0 Jobs

Originally Posted by Brightshadow

Not really we are the warriors of light for a reason lol. But necromancer has appeared at least once as a playable job but it’s definitely not popular compared to the other jobs...

Dark Knights aren't exactly holy warriors. In fact, they are the opposite of Paladins. "Yet even the holiest of men succumb to dark temptations." That's from this website. And yet, they can be the Warrior of Light.

So, yeah. Give me some sort of dark caster any day of the week. Like a dark scholar or something.

Originally Posted by Ralts

Tank: Blue Mage
Weapon: Falchion and Shield

Healer: Geomancer
Weapon: Bell
Type: Shielder like Scholar using White-Mage-esque spells.

Damage-Dealer: Dancer
Type: Melee range supporter using debuffs to enemies rather than buffs to the group like bards.

Nah more like

Geomancer, Oracle, Time Mage

Chemist would be a better option for a non caster healer. It just makes more sense than dancer. How would dancer honestly heal without some form of magic?

Originally Posted by DamianFatale

Chemist would be a better option for a non caster healer. It just makes more sense than dancer. How would dancer honestly heal without some form of magic?

dancer would fit in if they added a fourth role for support then they could give the bards archer type skills back to the archer and make that class into a ranger and make the bard a legit support class along with dancer chemist and time mage chemist would be support because it could be like a secondary healer that relies on potions for heals buffs and debuffs Dancer uses dances (of course) to buff and debuff and time mage uses spells like haste and stopa to and even rewind to heal back a portion of health again these heals wouldn't be as good as WHM SCH OR AST but they would allow for a bit of extra help and while the 3 main healers now would have much more healing potency these supports could offer more damage but not as much as traditional DPS thus allow a spot for other super obscure classes

huh? i thought Geomancer supposed to be a DPS not a healer? Well if it is anything like FFXI... Well anything can happen but I rather have Geo as DPS and dancer as a healer

Um..>We're *aware* it's based on what the developers see as viable. That doesn't mean we can't wish for things.

Originally Posted by Mahrze

Chemist would be a good way to approach healing without MP, but likely would be too tied to ALC for resources.

Nah, CHM would get their potions from the same place BRDs get their arrows. No need to tie to ALC, any more than BRD is tied to CRP.

Originally Posted by DamianFatale

Chemist would be a better option for a non caster healer. It just makes more sense than dancer. How would dancer honestly heal without some form of magic?

Inspiration! Seriously, it's not hard to throw together a bunch of pseudo-scientific claptrap that would be laughable in real life but plausible in a fantasy universe. "The DNC's inspiring dance excites the target's chi pathways, accelerating the body's natural healing ability..." and so on and so forth. It's all flavor, and it behaves exactly the same way as a magical cure spell would, but it's not magic, any more than a spear wound is "magic" just because it does the same thing a fireball does.

I do expect, however, that if we get DNC, it will not be a melee healer. It will stand at a distance, just like existing healers, because SE has implemented mechanics in the game that expect healers to be at a distance (for example, Nisi, in Alexander 4 - boy, would THAT be awkward in a party with two melee-range healers!). I suspect that folks hoping for a melee healer like in FFXI will be disappointed! A chakram might be a good weapon for a DNC to perform ranged attacks.