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Ryanti · **06-01-2013, 06:11 PM**

(05-28-2013, 02:13 AM)Abodo Wrote: So glad someone caught this.Â

Also, what Momo said makes a lot of sense to me. The jobs and classes you have in the game are supposed to be learned over the course of years in a RP sense. For instance, and I don't mean to plug my own character as some sort of perfect example but, Uther is a dragoon. Even when I'm inevitably going to have to level Lancer, he's still a dragoon in my mind. He's been training to be a dragoon since he was five years old. So the idea of someone switching jobs on the fly back-and-forth in a fight from one extreme to the next is kind of a foreign concept to me and it doesn't hold much ground from a realistic RP sense. I would go as far as to say it's insulting to the lore, but that might be a bit extreme. Seriously though, the only other jobs I can see Uther as are Paladin and maybe one day Archer. And the Paladin shift I have in mind will be RP'd over the course of months.Â I just don't get why this is an issue. I strongly believe in RPing a character who is a master of his or her art, and has put in the dedication and discipline to truly earn that title. With that comes very few opportunities to switch from warrior to black mage mid-combat. I realize OOC complications may arise in combat, but if you're a competent player even that shouldn't be too much of a problem.

This is just me though, and everyone is different.

This exactly why I RP Samurai now. Â It just doesnt make sense that when they add samurai (and they have said several times it was coming) that BOOM I am now a Samurai and know everything about being one. Â It just doesnt add up.
However I understand this is a game and FF has a history of changing jobs in battle like FF5 and FF X2.

To each their own of course.

I think it's way too much of a thing against somebody for them to consistently switch jobs and do whatever. At least by my standards. I'm not going to RP all the time. Realm Reborn is just as much of a MMO opportunity as it is for a RP opportunity to me. OOC'ly, I'll be doing and experimenting with a bunch of things. I'm not going to let RP hold me back in experiencing the game in entirety. I'm going to be doing a lot of OOC stuff, but when I'm RP'ing I'll be what my character is.

Besides... hell, I don't know what I'm going to have fun with class wise, job wise...

I'm thinking of Paladin right now, but what if I turn out to despise the Job? What if I like Warrior more? Etc. It's things you gotta think about. Now, I will say that while leveling Gladiator, Berserker, and Conjurer, I will be RP'ing as if I'm training to become a Paladin in the sense of getting used to different weapons, and magic itself as part of the training. That should give me enough time, realistically, for it to make sense of Ryanti becoming a Paladin. I'm not, however, going to spend literal months/years becoming something if it holds me back time-wise. (I'm a college student. Time management.) If I put in enough work to level those classes and the game recognizes me as a Paladin, I believe that to be enough.

I'm not a casual. But there's such a thing as too hardcore for me, to the point where RP becomes a parasite. It just seems to me like making a big deal out of a little deal.

Ryanti is eventually going to be a Samurai. But not right now. This is a stage of his life, and Samurai is going to be the next. I decided to take the situation of me not being able to become Samurai from launch, and turned it into a way for Ryanti to evolve as a character.

When that class comes out, however long it takes for me to level.. I'd probably have to level stuff like Pugilist or something anyhow.. regardless of all that, there will be a good amount of writing of what happens between Ryanti discovering the art, and him becoming one. I'm not going to just have it happen in a snap..

But at the same time.. months? Maybe. Years? No, lol.

(05-28-2013, 03:47 AM)Kaoru Wrote: Forgive me if I'm off base here as far as how people do RP here, but it's been my understanding that you're not literally bound by the game mechanic.

Taking my character, K'aworu for example. He is for all points and purposes a Conjurer and is affiliated with the Fane. However, he does have some talent in Archery. But for RP, I wouldn't really /need/ to switch between those two jobs for the sake of the RP.

I could easily keep him, IG-wise, as either class/job. I could easily keep him as a CNJ, but through the course of RP, use text and other context clues to talk about his archery, or even demonstrate it in RP just using writing. I don't think I have to change him to the ARC job to say he can shoot an arrow, or say that he is shooting an arrow in an RP session.

This has just been my impression on the matter. Changing jobs how the game does it, I don't think has any actual RP representation. Your character can just /know/ those other skills (logically, of course. Not in a godmodding sense.)

You're not bound by the game mechanic. At least I think so.

I see nothing bad about speaking of talents without switching jobs. It's silly when you think about it IRL. I don't have to dress up in a baseball uniform with a bat and helmet to tell people I'm good at baseball. It's just silly.

For the less extreme examples, sometimes it's more convenient to write things out then bother with modifying game mechanics. Especially if it's something as little as a job change for.. y'know.. shooting an arrow or something.

RP and changing jobs

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