(10-19-2016, 10:52 PM)Hyrist Wrote: Edit:
As far as the inclination that this will add fuel to the fire. That depends on whether or not people can make the leap from the specific Job Order storylines implying exclusivity, and the now revealed fact that the attempts to replicate these techniques are occurring regardless of attempts to obscure it them.
What it really boils down to, at this point is that each individual roleplayer of a job will likely need to write a backstory or do roleplays displaying how they came upon these techniques - same as before. However, this provides an official backdrop of canon to work from - rather than pure speculation.
The issue is that there is no objective statement of this. The book as it is now provides information which does not offer any statements as to the rarity or accessibility of most of the more exclusive lines of jobs. We have solid confirmation of BRD and WAR, which is absolutely fantastic. Many of the others already have solid confirmations in-game.
But we don't have anything about the others. The only information we are objectively given about WHM and BLM in this passage, for instance, is "people know about them now and they also use soul stones." Nothing on practice, nothing on widespread reclamation, nothing on whether or not the Elementals and Padjal are going to kick your ass for defying their wishes. From an objective standpoint, this gives us nothing new.
And it's a shame, because I was expecting more from SE as far as this topic goes. It gives us something that we can make inferences on, sure, but those inferences are still only that. You even said yourself that players will have to write their way around things, same as before, and the fact that things are being "rediscovered" are self-evident through job plotlines anyway. We are given no new specifics.
TL;DR, I want SE to hurry up and give me BLM back, and it still hasn't. This isn't definitive at all, and even though it presents a case for argument, it's still not clear and absolute, and certainly won't stop arguments.
