So... there's a rather significant debate among RPers about the extent of the powers of the elementals of the Shroud in the 2.0 timeframe and their current relationship to Succor, as well as what lore-compliant ways might exist to learn it. As a general rule, RPing that you use Succor in any fashion is likely to complicate your RP, so I recommend people avoid it.
With that said, I don't think there's anything problematic about learning and using the three Disciplines of Magic (arcanima, thaumaturgy, and conjury). They do work largely differently from each other, but they all involve the channeling and weaving of Aether, so a person talented in one could pick up the others. As Nako'li noted, though, RPing that you use multiple Job Disciplines is likely to come off poorly in the larger RP community for a variety of reasons. I think it best to avoid the Jobs entirely or pick just one -- preferably a more common one, such as Summoner, which is being actively revived -- to use ICly.
By way of example, L'yhta is quite knowledgeable in all three Disciplines of Magic, but the only Job she knows ICly is Summoning. Any effects that she uses that are "Job-like" (massive explosions or what have you) are just spells she's researched, modified, or created that still fall under arcanima, thaumaturgy, or conjury. That doesn't mean she doesn't have some theoretical knowledge of the lost Jobs, and it doesn't mean she's not actively researching them (because screw the elementals, no one tells her what she can and can't learn!
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With that said, I don't think there's anything problematic about learning and using the three Disciplines of Magic (arcanima, thaumaturgy, and conjury). They do work largely differently from each other, but they all involve the channeling and weaving of Aether, so a person talented in one could pick up the others. As Nako'li noted, though, RPing that you use multiple Job Disciplines is likely to come off poorly in the larger RP community for a variety of reasons. I think it best to avoid the Jobs entirely or pick just one -- preferably a more common one, such as Summoner, which is being actively revived -- to use ICly.
By way of example, L'yhta is quite knowledgeable in all three Disciplines of Magic, but the only Job she knows ICly is Summoning. Any effects that she uses that are "Job-like" (massive explosions or what have you) are just spells she's researched, modified, or created that still fall under arcanima, thaumaturgy, or conjury. That doesn't mean she doesn't have some theoretical knowledge of the lost Jobs, and it doesn't mean she's not actively researching them (because screw the elementals, no one tells her what she can and can't learn!
).
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