(09-15-2015, 10:23 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(09-15-2015, 10:12 AM)Harmony Wrote: Obviously, I realize that any integration with the story is taboo- yet I must ask how the job system works into it. My character is a White Mage, and it is a pretty significant part of her character. Would that generally be accepted in some manner?
This is a pretty hot and oft discussed topic. Just search "white mage lore" here and you'll see.Given the lore around White Mage -- which largely revolves around how the singular Warrior of Light is the only non-Padjal to have been taught it in centuries -- you need to have a pretty solid explanation for how you got access to a power that at least one group (the Padjal) indisputably tries to restrict. The devs have confirmed that there are other means to access Succor, but those means may or may not be bad (depending on how you interpret what they've said). Even with a good explanation of how you learned it, there will be groups of RPers that won't accept the claim.
One thing I guess I'd ask is, given how tied White Mage is to Gridania's politics and lore, and how restrictive the job lore is, does it buy you a lot narratively to be a White Mage instead of, say, a powerful conjurer? The job White Mage comes with a lot of baggage, whereas a powerful conjurer can do essentially anything a White Mage can do. Even the White Mage "job spells," like Regen, can be worked around in RP (it's magic amplified through another discipline, it's a new spell I created/researched, it's a magical item/magitek item/Allagan artifact, and so on). It's just that the source of their aether is a bit different.
EDIT: To your larger question, not all jobs are as restrictive as WHM. In fact, in 3.x, I'd argue it's an anomaly, now. Some jobs are actively and openly taught, some are being revived by various groups, and some are esoteric but still within reach. WHM stands alone as basically inaccessible without some serious narrative dancing and making some "big asks" of fellow RPers.
Thank you for the swift and detailed reply! Everything you have said makes complete sense, and I did have a feeling that this sort of thing would be taboo in the FFXIV roleplay community. The last thing I wanted to do was get into trouble!Â
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With that being the case, I'll make some major modifications to my character's backstory and develop a Conjurer version of her exclusively for in-game roleplay.
(EDIT: Completely messed up the quote in the original post.)
