Live Letter VII - Discussion Thread

[Punainen]

Weren't there 8 jobs already including SMN? If scholar is the 8th job... where does that leave SMN?

Maybe it was a typo 'cause otherwise that makes no sense.

[Punainen]

Well, since THM and CNJ can both use wands/staffs, I don't see a problem with SCH and SMN using books. I'd imagine when they implement thief or red mage down the road, for example, they're going to have swords and daggers that can also be used by GLD/WAR class.

Actually BLM uses staves and um...forget. And WHM uses wands and radicals.

[Uriahnool]

Actually BLM uses staves and um...forget. And WHM uses wands and radicals.

Maybe one uses dictionary and one uses thesaurus

[Magnesium02]

Pretty Thanalan night sky

[Hestern_Nestern]

Maybe one uses dictionary and one uses thesaurus

Snicker, snicker, snicker....book humor!

Wild speculation that Skavian previously recommended that we do not do:

MAYBE SCHOLAR IS A JOB YOU OBTAIN FOR LEVELING ALL OF THE CRAFTING CLASSES TO 30!!! PLEASE LOOK FORWARD TO IT!!

[ArkhamNative]

There you go. Scholar confirmed as a Job. Yay no more arguments XD
>.> <.<... but is my WHM position threatened...

SMN & SCH may be mostly buffer/debuffer/crowd control, since that's the role(s) Yoshi-P said was most lacking in v1.

I'd imagine when they implement thief or red mage down the road, for example, they're going to have swords and daggers that can also be used by GLD/WAR class.

The weapon defines the class. If a weapon could be for 2+ classes, the game would have to ask you each time you equip it, "which class did you want to switch to?". Probably won't happen.

[Yrusama]

SMN & SCH may be mostly buffer/debuffer/crowd control, since that's the role(s) Yoshi-P said was most lacking in v1.


The weapon defines the class. If a weapon could be for 2+ classes, the game would have to ask you each time you equip it, "which class did you want to switch to?". Probably won't happen.

Watch, SMN will use Tomes and SCH will use Grimoires....

[Fantasia]

Watch, SMN will use Tomes and SCH will use Grimoires....

Vice versa =)

[Ferth]

SMN & SCH may be mostly buffer/debuffer/crowd control, since that's the role(s) Yoshi-P said was most lacking in v1.


The weapon defines the class. If a weapon could be for 2+ classes, the game would have to ask you each time you equip it, "which class did you want to switch to?". Probably won't happen.

that argument would only work if both summoner and scholar could equip the same kind of books.

they could easily make subclasses of books that were only usable by their specified class. Much like the thm and cnj weapons are functionally identical but named different things. The semantics of it is that they are different items, but they are still basically staves and wands.

[ArkhamNative]

that argument would only work if both summoner and scholar could equip the same kind of books.
they could easily make subclasses of books that were only usable by their specified class. Much like the thm and cnj weapons are functionally identical but named different things. The semantics of it is that they are different items, but they are still basically staves and wands.

It sounded like he was talking about a weapon for multiple classes (i.e. Vorpal Sword of Vorpaling, Requires: WAR, RDM). That won't really work.

As for the SCH/SMN book thing, yes, they could make any arbitrary classification (grimoire/tome, paperback/hardback) or even no obvious classification. The important thing is the "Requires:" part. "Grimoire A, Requires SCH" and "Grimoire B, Requires SMN" would be perfectly fine, though confusing somewhat.