(03-17-2015, 10:29 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: I think it's a different way of reaching the same things. Conjury borrows power from the land and the elements to cause its various effects. Thaumaturgy borrows power from the user to create elemental effects. White Magic draws (I think, anyway) from deeper wells of the natural world to use Succor. Black Magic takes from those wells to devastating effect.
Arcanist can cast Physick, yes, but it's more similar to "Sacred Geometry" and channeling aether through ritualistic glyphs and design. It's possible that the reason they can raise at all is simply due to their arcane geometry meeting the requirements to again borrow those energies to have a similar effect.
/spitballing
That... could be it. THM and BLM is straight up using the aether raw, which is why the latter needs to TAKE in order to fuel its destructive capabilities. The geometric formulae that ACN use is more more... refining and focusing those energies first. Still, isn't the gem in a THM/BLM's staff supposed to do the same thing? Amplify the power of one's own aether?
Then again, maybe it's a bit of a moot point because ACN doesn't do either nearly as good as the others. Yes, it can heal and raise, but it only has Physick (and the decently-sized panic heal Lustrate that requires "preparation" in the form of Aetherflow stacks) while CNJ/WHM can do much larger heals on the regular (along with Benediction for a straight up, no muss no fuss full heal). On the flip side, it has the rather mediocre Ruin and a bevvy of damage-over-time effects for the offensive (with their Carbuncle/Egi also doing a lot of heavy lifting) compared to the swath of various "big hit" damaging spells THM/BLM gets.
So, really, Resurrection is the sole outlier in the ACN skillset, I think. I'm sure a CNJ using their own aether could spam basic Cures much like an ACN can Physicks... it just gets dangerous when they move to the bigger spells. So, unless there's something going on with that Sacred Geometry that's drastically reducing the user's aetheric usage, you'd think casting Resurrection would be just as dangerous on one's reserves as a Raise using one's own energy.
... Or they just wanted another class that could raise and didn't put much thought into the lore, despite the importance of Raise in the CNJ story.
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