(07-10-2015, 06:38 PM)Kaniko Niko Wrote: Though not a Summoner, I can offer a tidbit about Black Mage:
Being a Black Mage isn't uniquely locked like the White Mage is. What IS locked, however, is the Warrior of Light's protection from black magic. There is very little difference between a Thaumaturge and a Black Mage storywise. The issue is that the way a Thaumaturge channels aether.
Without the Gem of Shatotto, the Black Mage soul gem, you have a soft cap on how much aether a person can manipulate before his own inner life-aether reaches criticality and starts to get rather...
Fissile.
Boom.
Just a side note. It is very much up for debate how gated WHM actually is. I mean, Y'shtola is a WHM. She is Sharlayan and was born and raised there, she is not even the Archon that was assigned to the Shroud. This in no way eliminates the idea that one should come up with a good story to explain stuff, but that is pretty much an across the board thing. One should always come up with good story to explain stuff. Yar.
