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Eva · **02-28-2013, 12:54 AM**

(02-28-2013, 12:09 AM)Ryanti Veanysus Wrote: But I can easily see it going overboard and everybody being proficient at everything.

I don't think many do this, but I've seen enough that do that it's something of a put-off and comes across somewhat Mary Sue. Â Many of us from 1.0 have many of our jobs leveled up to 50 - in some part because there just wasn't much to do after we'd leveled the jobs we most enjoyed and explored all the content. Â I don't think that needs to be translated into RP though. Â I think actual expertise in a particular discipline's nuances usually comes from years of practice rather than a couple weeks of PLing or XP parties. Â In the RP world when someone is suddenly a master of martial arts one week, and the next week a gifted archer, and the following week excels at black magic - that sort of raises a few red flags for me.

Like Rhio said I think it's most realistic to choose one or two points of specialty and then have a few "dabble" things. Â To give an example (because I love those), Eva is a white mage by profession with some skill, if not expertise exactly, with a lance. Â If a particular event calls for her to wield an axe I will RP complete and utter ignorance. Â She thinks they're clumsy weapons and has never even bothered to learn to wield one. Â That said, my marauder/warrior is level 50 and I understand how to play the job well enough OOC. Â I just don't need for that to transition into RP for any reason.

As a footnote, a few of us are working on a sort of "handbook for RP" - sort of a set of helpful guidelines generally geared towards newer RPers (or seasoned RPers who may be new to the Final Fantasy environment) which we're hoping to post up within the next week or so. Â Your question has actually given me an idea for a section to add to that, so thank you! Â Thumbsup

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