(10-21-2015, 09:34 AM)Vyce Wrote:(10-21-2015, 09:30 AM)Hammersmith Wrote: WAR also doesn't require a soul crystal.
Especially since by the end of the level 60 Job quest Limsa is looking to crank out it's own platoon of the things and the only known soul crystal for the job has been in your hands the entire time. Â Both Gorge and his Brother don't use one and still Warrior (Badly) until you "fix" the training process for them.
Soul crystals are, in most cases, a learning catalyst that keeps adding to itself for every bearer it has. Â You resonate with it, maybe you see into one facet and one bearer's life more since that's more your 'style' of whatever that crystal is trying to teach.
I beg to differ:
http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/P...e_Mountain)
"Duly impressed by your strength, Curious Gorge presents you with the Soul of the Warrior. When your inner beast awakens, he explains, the runes will resonate, granting you such strength as you never thought possible."
This explicitly states that the Warrior soul crystal augments your abilities. Of course, you must be a skilled fighter to even access your inner beast to trigger the runes in the first place, but yeah.
"When your inner beast awakens, he explains, the runes will resonate"
Another way of reading this, and the correct one I think, is that your inner beast, the defining characteristic of a Warrior, can wake up regardless of soul stone possession.
The stone just shows you -real quick- how to make it into an axe murdering machine.
The soul crystal becomes useful when you already match the job description it's tied to, but at no point in the process does it ever state it's required for access to anything. If anything it's a good divining rod for people who have the Beast up and running already.
"Oh. Â This guy wants to be a berserking fury fueled horrorshow and has the potential already. Â Let's show him how to do that REAL GOOD REAL FAST"
And, as demonstrated in the Warrior quests, the knowledge you get from it might not be power you can -handle yet-. Out of all of the jobs, Warriors not needing, and not USING soulstones regularly makes a lot of sense. The fact that the stone itself says it's only useful after you've already woken up the beast, combined with Limsa's Warrior Training Program, combined with the fact there's just the one Warrior stone (Bear and Gorge were using the same one as you, all three of you were studying the one stone's effects on a burgeoning warrior....gorge and Bear just got the shaft end of that) means the Soul Crystal is USEFUL AS HELL for speeding the training as a catalyst (Or fucking you over by giving you insight into the beast that you can't control) but not required to start the process.