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    peaches's Avatar
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    Aug 2011
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    Character
    Egwene Al'vere
    World
    Cactuar
    Main Class
    Arcanist Lv 60

    Impossible to be Sumoner AND Scholar?

    So far, Arcanist is the only class with two jobs. When one class advances to a job, their attribute points go with them.

    The Arcanist presents me with a problem. I would like to be a Scholar healer, AND a Summoner DPS. If you put your points into Mind, you will be an effective healer but an ineffective DPSer, and the other way around. The ONE way I can see this working, is if Summoner could use a Conjurer's Cleric Stance ability, which switched your Mind with Intelligence, and lowers healing potency.

    This isn't how it works right now. Currently only the Scholar can use Cleric Stance. So if you put all your points into INT thinking it will just transfer to Mind, you have the problem of 20% decreased healing potency.

    In most games this wouldn't be an issue because you are always forced to "spec" into a role. In this game, not so. You are given the ability to play every single class to its fullest potential. Except the Summoner/Scholar combo. They need to either make it so Scholar/Summoner gets their own set of Attribute points, or give Summoner Cleric Stance so you can be an effective healer, then when you want to DPS switch to Summoner and use Cleric Stance so your healing is decreased (because you're a DPS job, you shouldn't be able to heal well), but your damage isn't affected.

    Does anyone else agree, or have any other suggestions? I know you can re-spend your points, but that costs flags or something I'm told, and that is unacceptable in this game where you should be able to change class on the fly. You shouldn't have to re-spec your points every time you want to switch between Summoner/Scholar.

    This is a serious issue for me, and its preventing me from playing my Arcanist, because I'm afraid to spend my points.
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    Last edited by peaches; 08-28-2013 at 05:45 AM.