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Sounsyy · **03-29-2015, 04:51 PM**

(03-29-2015, 04:18 PM)Ckayah Polaali Wrote: High damage/heals at range? That's powerful. Counter it by making them fragile? That balances them against the other classes. If your Black Mage could wear Dragoon's armor and do Dragoon-levels of damage from anywhere on the map without worrying about positioning or being hit by the AOEs around a monster, why would anyone play a Dragoon? If a White Mage could clank around in Paladin's armor and simply keep aggro with their massive self-heal while letting the damage mitigation of the armor keep the incoming damage low enough to let them live, why would anyone play a Paladin or Warrior?

So... interesting point I wanted to make on this. Way back in the dawn of 1.0... gear restrictions did not exist at all. Nor did cross-class restrictions for that matter. And what C'kayah brought up was absolutely the result. Ranged mages... (particularly THM) with tank armor and various tank cross-class abilities were absolutely 100% invincible and overpowered.

A good friend of mine mained THM, cross classed a bunch of GLD skills, wore a mix of tank armor and mage accessories, and was able to easily solo every Faction leve and HNM in the game. This was also back in the days when you didn't need to be at level to wear higher level armor, just the gear stats were level synced down to whatever level you were.

The result? While cool... it essentially turned all 8 DoW/M classes into really just one blob amoeba class that really just changed by whatever weapon you chose to use.

Here's my 1.0 LNC and my LNC tanking:
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You also got these plate armor wearing fools:
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So yeah... I don't really have a problem with mages wearing plate. There's nothing in lore saying they can't. Just 2.0 game mechanics and gear restriction. Does it make you kinda OP? Yeah, probably. Maybe consider 1) why your mage wants to wear plate and where would he wear plate? and 2) is your mage type physically fit enough to wear plate/heavy armor full time? Maybe he's like the Sharlayans and just wears gauntlets/sabatons?

Granted, the only people who'd be able to even pull off this look would be 1.0 veterans who kept Dated Gear for "sentimental reasons." <_< >_> /like myself.

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