(08-26-2015, 12:52 PM)Selarian Cloverbloom Wrote: Please forgive my newbie question, as I have not done the story quests for these yet, but I was wondering...
Why is it that no one can be a BLM or WHM now? I read somewhere else that it is frowned upon by the lore people, and I am curious. Also, even if one could become a BLM or WHM in character, is it mutually exclusive? Selarian has the dream of mastering both Thaumatergy and Conjuration, and the natural step would be for him to become both a BLM and WHM, but I don't want to break lore.
You can, of course, play what you like. No one can tell you that you can't. However, the reason playing either is frowned upon is that you need to both acknowledge the limitations governing access to each Job AND find a way around them to be lore-compliant.
For instance, if you don't somehow get a hold of a Black Mage soulstone, if/when you try to use Black Magic, you explode. And White Magic is apparently held in trust by the Padjal of the Shroud, and they are not entrusting it to mortals (past the Warrior of Light).
Of course it's important to note that Conjure is NOT White Magic, or even related to it. Similarly, Â Thaumaturgy is NOT Black Magic. So if your character dreams of mastering both, it actually doesn't follow that he or she would thus become both a Black Mage and a White Mage. In fact, it doesn't follow that he'd become either one, as they do not demonstrate a mastery in either school of magic.
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