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RE: How important is OOC achievement when playing a powerful character ICly? - Hunfrid - 07-05-2015
18 pages of posts is too long to read through, but I did read a handful of posts.
I'm just gonna offer my opinion to the original post.
People are gonna rp the way they want, whom they want.
I'm in the bandwagon of not caring so much about ooc levels, I see them as a game mechanic far more than anything else.
If a bunch of people start saying they're the only one of _____ job (where the in-game quests state there's only one on Hydaelyn/Eorzea), then there's a problem (I know, not everyone is gonna say they're character is that job, but a lot of them can).
Also, I read in posts before mine, some jobs can't fit the character (someone posted their character is a ballistics/engineer specialist).
Not to mention, many have alts that they're too lazy to level.
My main, Hunfrid, is a toymaker/tinkerer by trade. Goldsmithing can kind of fill that role as an in-game class/job, but is not what he is. I don't have the patience to level it to max, too.
Hunfrid recently began studying conjurery in his free time, and though he is a level 48 white mage, he's still got a long way to go.
TLDR: If you want to RP your way, do it. Just don't get upset when people don't like it or won't rp with you because of what/how you want to rp.
RE: How important is OOC achievement when playing a powerful character ICly? - Griffith! - 07-05-2015
Marten is a geologist, or some approximation there-of. His father was one, and so is he. I leveled Miner a bit as a kind of addendum to that, but I find the gathering classes just super-duper boring. Not my thing. So, his miner levels don't reflect his education.
Of course, Marten is also a former gladiator, and while any class can be a gladiator, I actually leveled the Gladiator class. I don't think my level in it is super important, though, as Marten isn't even all that good at fighting. So my level doesn't reflect my skill here, either, except in the opposite direction - his level is too high to be as bad at it as he is.
So, I'd say moderately important - someone roleplaying a black mage should actually have the job, for example - but not an end all or be all indicator of relative character strength.
...or I think that's what I'm saying, anyway.
RE: How important is OOC achievement when playing a powerful character ICly? - M'isha - 07-06-2015
Somewhat important to me.
The main thing is... the class quests you get, and class story (even for crafting and gathering!) contribute so, so much lore and background information on the game world. If you want to RP the world of FFXIV and Hydaelyn... and not just a concept of your own, it's so important to level the jobs and get the story!
Of course, obviously, you can look up quest text online. But for me, experiencing the full plot and cutscenes in-game gives me a much better idea about what that job/class/thing is 'all about'.
And it's just cool to see, personally, when there is some alignment between character OOC class and IC class. Just feels 'right' to me, when I am playing my character and RPing with others.