Archanist Question(s)

[Kirito]

I don't know... maybe they will go the ff11 route and have a couple basic classes we can start with and later unlock new classes... It is because there is no guild for dancer, rune fencer, scholar, ninja in this game so if they do add them they would need to be unlock only... but that is for the far out future... whether they enable having the guilds that are currently available in the cities as possible starting chose could be possible... unless they make the guild vacant at first and you need to do a quest to bring back its members...

[Shosasosa]

Your first question would be how to spell ARCANIST

[ZakarnRosewood]

Your first question would be how to spell ARCANIST

There Their They're, didn't mean to offend the grammar nazi's... lol, but thanks for pointing it out.

[Daniolaut]

Hmm its interesting to think about ARN/SMN being from Limsa. I'm not sure if it really fits. Most likely to me, it would seem more feasible for ARN to come from Ul'dah, because they study artifacts and incantations. For them to be accompanied with pirates and men/women of the sea just doesnt seem to fit. But yes, not many classes delve from the Sea port city of Limsa Lominsa, even though all but one DoM/DoW doesnt reign from Limsa, many DoH do.

As for the OP, I'm pretty sure it was confirmed Arcanist will be available only for release, where as Summoner was said it might not be ready for release. They werent specific as to anything regarding Beta, but you can be sure, once its ready you can pick that class at character creation screen.

(http://www.luxarcana.org/forums/mmorpg/topic6373.html bottom of the page under Misc.)

[Felis]

Hmm its interesting to think about ARN/SMN being from Limsa. I'm not sure if it really fits. Most likely to me, it would seem more feasible for ARN to come from Ul'dah, because they study artifacts and incantations. For them to be accompanied with pirates and men/women of the sea just doesnt seem to fit. But yes, not many classes delve from the Sea port city of Limsa Lominsa, even though all but one DoM/DoW doesnt reign from Limsa, many DoH do.

The arcanist guild is more like a customs office in Limsa

"To prevent the unlawful import of hazardous materials, we inspect all cargo, crew, and passengers before granting them entry into our fine city."
—Haldberk

Mealvaan's Gate is attached to the Ferry Docks. It acts as the custom-house for inbound and cargo. Only those with a talent for the Arcane arts are allowed into their ranks. For this reason it is also known as the Arcanist's Guild. They boast a training hall for Arcanists on the lower level, and the bottom level contains all hazardous contraband.

[Wilan]

There Their They're, didn't mean to offend the grammar nazi's... lol, but thanks for pointing it out.

Actually, when you don't use the correct letters to spell a word, you're making an orthographic mistake, not a grammatical one.




/sarcasm

[Shurrikhan]

Your first question would be how to spell ARCANIST

To check my memory:

Arcanist = user of the Arcane (essentially magic as a sheer amount of force, or else the pure strands of it, usually associated with knowledge of sourcing and manipulation as would be relevant to summoning and debuffing)

Archanist = I would guess to be user of very old things, generally a relic devicer, something of a cross between a Mechanist and a Scholar in tactics jobs terms

That about right?

I also agree that there will probably be something of a tie-in between the pace at which future classes and future city-states are added. That said, it would also seem likely that the same kind of guild might appear in different traditions in different cities. It seems hard to picture Ishgard without a Lancer and Archer's guild, but that would be stealing Gridania's thunder pretty badly. I wouldn't mind seeing a more obscure Ul'duhn bow tradition kept only by its merchant cavalry guard or the like. 2 shortbow styles, 2 longbow, since Gridania has both in God's Quiver. Something like that.

[Takeshi_Eiketsu]

Actually they could make it a quest to get the Book to equip as arcanist (To initially unlock the class, since it is U/U), and you can not equip higher level books because /drumroll please... They all REQUIRE a higher level to equip...so in essence you NEED to do the quest to obtain the book to unlock arcanist (and that quest could be 20...30...40...50...WHATEVER level they decide to make it...)
So the armoury system doesn't necessarily mean you can get the class without any epic event...as you can see it can be quite epic.

PS. Marauder is the only guild in LL at the moment...but if you remember, not only is there an arcanist guild there, but there is also the musketeer guild there (in the Coral Tower, on the north side of LL)

[Rukkirii]

Just wanted to pop in and answer the question about "unlocking" arcanist -- You won't need to fulfill any requirements in order to be able to play as an arcanist.

[Kirito]

Just wanted to pop in and answer the question about "unlocking" arcanist -- You won't need to fulfill any requirements in order to be able to play as an arcanist.

I see so we can assume it will be available as a starting class...