Jobs: The second crystal

[indira]

Oooo I would not do that. More skills means more crap to manage. Its not the amount of skills you have but how you use them. Take league of legends for instance. Every champion gets 4 skills and a passive. You have to play to the function of your skills, not unneeded spam on repetitive actions. More skills take tactical decision making out of the game.

less things to make your job different make more jobs/classes the same thing if you branch from one class. they already locked out most of the sub class skills or there useless, so it wont be that big of a deal.

[Onisake]

If PUG became a backup healer it doesn't necessarily mean people will want to DD, its what ever the party can scrap together to make a formidable force. If you have a PUG that can either go dancer or monk then you either don't have to worry about either finding another healer or finding another damage dealer as the pugilist can elect to go either way, such is the beauty of instant specialization. The goal is to level your Class. In a game that promotes playing multiple roles, people should get used to the flexibility in tweaking a class via job stone into a completely new role.

Plus I think were more worried about end game/boss content party strategy than the typical leveling pace. In 2.0 leveling is going to be quest based and you are basically going to be able to level without the use of job stones so it wouldn't matter if people leveled to play a specific job or not, they need to understand that their class is what matters most.

it's more about 'fun' factor. I myself enjoy playing all roles. but not everyone is like that. someone who likes to exclusively DD may feel they are forced to heal on DNC just because it is an option.

If they say 'I'm not a healer, i wont' play DNC' they are less likely (or may feel they are less likely) to be included in content because they are less flexible and not doing what is expected of them. "You are capable of switching specializations on the fly. If you refuse to do so you are a bad player" etc.

For this same token, I know a lot of people who wanted to play ARC, but do not want to play BRD. but because the two are linked they are forced to play BRD if they want to be an ARC like class.

You know, people who say a class or job shouldn't be a cause it's not part of tradition...

There are 14 Final Fantasy games, not including the spin-offs.

If we don't include 6, cause anyone can really be anything in it. That's about 3 or 4 FF games that had class/jobs.

3~4/14 games that's less than half, that shouldn't dictate tradition.

1-5 had jobs. although you couldn't switch jobs in some of them. 11 had jobs. and 14 has jobs.

that's 7. not sure where you got 3-4. the fact that the first 5 games of the franchise had jobs is enough to say 'traditionally' to me.

Why can't there be a Chaotic Good Necromancer? Someone who is willing to do evil to do good? Oh look the warrior killed the only man that knew the certain information you needed to progress. Oh look now you have your friendly necromancer raise the guys soul temporarily to ask for information and he can't lie to the necromancer.

Yes Necromancy is frowned upon, but to become a sage among magic-users, you have to know all forms of magic.

a lot of people are not familiar with alignments. and there is a ton of 'gray-area' in a chaotic good alignment anyway. it's entirely possible, and this happens quite a bit in my experience, that your actions as a chaotic good end up causing more overall harm than benefit.

[Sigmakan]

Actually, the best job to come off of GLA might be beastmaster

[Kazai]

Actually, the best job to come off of GLA might be beastmaster

You sir have vision.