(01-31-2015, 02:03 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: On topic, one doesn't have to be a healer as a CNJ. They do have a decent amount of offensive spells. It's a case where the game mechanics requiring them to be healers forces them into a narrowed role.
To echo this, yes the roles in early 1.0 used to be reversed. CNJ was actually an extremely powerful DPS mage while THM made for the nearly invincible healer class. CNJ controlled all 6 elements and had ancient magick like Flare, Quake, Freeze, etc.
The change over though was a complete retcon admitted to by Fernehalwes so there's actually no lore substantiating why Conjurers can no longer use Fire, Thunder, and Ice... soooooooo if you wanted to utilize those elements as a CNJ, technically there's no lore saying you could not, as it was the norm for CNJs pre-Calamity.
