Quote:I'm still not clear about how job skills work in game but why not stuff a bow in your backpack along with your mage-stick so you can plink-plink mobs when you don't have to drop a heal/buff/nuke?
You can't really do it like how I think you're describing. You can't change jobs during combat, for one, and even when you do change jobs you have to reset all your abilities to be able to use them each time. I think macros are supposed to be able to help with that, but even still it isn't something you could easily use during a party.
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