Archanist Question(s)

[Shurrikhan]

Classes like musketeer are already in place at cities, but if they do this to the katana wielding class I'm going to call a huge BS retcon flag.

Out of curiosity, if you had a curved blade class, a sword-and-shield class, and a rapier class all among Swordsman, what would you call them, and how do you think that would go for the Japanese titles?

Fencer and Gladiator are already set for us... "Ronin" could go by the way of Ninja or Samurai, or maybe Ninja will stem from Thief or Scout, etc. Either way it's hard to get that 'perfect fit' for the curved blade class title.

[ZakarnRosewood]

For Arcanist I expected *something* other just being able to use it right away willy nilly. Like a short quest explaining the origins of the role or anything kind of along those lines. I suppose all the other classes are available from the start and new players would maybe wonder why they need to do something to unlock one and not the others but still.....

Thats what the Arcanist guild quests are for, just like every other class/job. or so i thought. maybe i'm just not at negative about their choices...

[ZakarnRosewood]

its one class.... if it were three and a year after the release of ARR, i would be right beside you. let them get their feet on the ground after the 1.0 hoopla...

[Wilan]

Why should we need any kind of quest for unlocking a class beside getting our first, level 1 tool?

I'll make you an example. Say I want to be a guitar player. I go buy my guitar (my tool) and "equip" it, maybe I even go and take classes from a guitar teacher. Hooray, now I'm a Level 1 guitarist.

• Am I completely incompetent and inexperienced? Hell yes, I just started out.
• Can I become a good guitarist if I practice every day? Why, of course, practice and grab exp to level up your "class".
• Can I become a Rock Star by practicing every day? Hell no. To unlock the "job" for the "guitarist class" you've got to go through a lot of quests (improving your style, making yourself famous, get a contract) that practice alone won't get you. You need to unlock that.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

because arcanist isn't a new job of a new expansion, but a supposed starter class.

[Radacci]

Hum anyone got any ideas what skills Arcanist will use anyways?
I checked some other FF games, and they use gravity, HP/MP steal, Dark, Haste, S Flare, Pierce.
Seems the atk spells are a bit restricted...isn't it all kinda umbral element? (i forgot if there's any such element before, or what it's called) THM already has HP/MP steal skills, so adding it for Arcanist also seems a bit...meh. Pierce is for casting through reflect spell which no one is using, or will Arcanist have reflect also? would that be kinda PvP skill then? or maybe some mobs will use reflect now too. Any ideas/suggestions for other skills? there should be 16 of them
Would be fun to see Ultima as lv 48 skill

[Wilan]

Hum anyone got any ideas what skills Arcanist will use anyways?
I checked some other FF games, and they use gravity, HP/MP steal, Dark, Haste, S Flare, Pierce.
Seems the atk spells are a bit restricted...isn't it all kinda umbral element? (i forgot if there's any such element before, or what it's called) THM already has HP/MP steal skills, so adding it for Arcanist also seems a bit...meh. Pierce is for casting through reflect spell which no one is using, or will Arcanist have reflect also? would that be kinda PvP skill then? or maybe some mobs will use reflect now too. Any ideas/suggestions for other skills? there should be 16 of them
Would be fun to see Ultima as lv 48 skill

For the individual skills, we'll see, speculation is useless now.
But generally talking, the devs talked about DoT damage spells (IIRC), and of course, Carbuncle, which you'll be able to set in various roles, like tank or healer or DD. I guess we'll have more details as the release draws close.
I wonder if it'll get a "gambit" system too, like they said chocobo would have

[Chinook]

Oh an Arcanist thread, there must some interesting conversations in here.

Oh wait ...

[Cedri]

Oh an Arcanist thread, there must some interesting conversations in here.

Oh wait ...

[Rahsch]

Totally can't wait. My main class/job will be Arcanist/Summoner!