I think you have to find a good middle ground when it comes to multi-classing. There at lots of classes that are very different but could easily work together if you put some effort into why the character knows the different skills.
Melee type characters could easily be skilled in several weapons, and mage types often study more than one school of magic. A Paladin type character could take up White Mage out of their desire to protect people in any way they can, because at their core both jobs are about keeping other people safe. A character could also be both a Monk and a Black Mage, both jobs are centered around the ability to control the aether within one's body. They could reasonably be skilled at different ways of doing it. You could come up with many more reasons than those. Maybe a character learns something out of necessity, or maybe they have some huge life event and decide to change their ways completely and leave behind their warrior ways to become a healer.
There's always a line though, and it's really easy to take it too far. If someone is the kind of player that levels everything to 50 just because they can, RPing that they're amazingly skilled at absolutely everything IC is rather godmody.
For my character Caysen, I'll be RPing him as skilled to some varying degree in all the classes I play on him. This will include all magic classes and ranged classes. I have IC reasons for him to know all that he does, and different levels of skill IC even though OOC the jobs will probably all be capped eventually. For example, he's a mage type first and foremost, so he studies all schools of magic and those jobs are the ones he's most skilled at. Being a Miqo'te he's got some skill in archery as well, specifically leading to Bard where he'll mix it with magic. If we get a gun/Musketeer class in the future he'll have some skill in that too, first because guns are somewhat similar to archery, and second because he's from Limsa and would have grown up around it, so it's reasonable that he would have a least learned to use one some. But he would by no means be as skilled with a bow or gun as he is in magic. If they add a sword using magic class like Red Mage, he'll take that up IC after learning some rudimentary sword techniques from his Paladin friend Ryuki.
Other classes, melee classes and such, I'll be playing on an alt. I'm interested in playing Monk, but it doesn't fit Caysen at all.
Melee type characters could easily be skilled in several weapons, and mage types often study more than one school of magic. A Paladin type character could take up White Mage out of their desire to protect people in any way they can, because at their core both jobs are about keeping other people safe. A character could also be both a Monk and a Black Mage, both jobs are centered around the ability to control the aether within one's body. They could reasonably be skilled at different ways of doing it. You could come up with many more reasons than those. Maybe a character learns something out of necessity, or maybe they have some huge life event and decide to change their ways completely and leave behind their warrior ways to become a healer.
There's always a line though, and it's really easy to take it too far. If someone is the kind of player that levels everything to 50 just because they can, RPing that they're amazingly skilled at absolutely everything IC is rather godmody.
For my character Caysen, I'll be RPing him as skilled to some varying degree in all the classes I play on him. This will include all magic classes and ranged classes. I have IC reasons for him to know all that he does, and different levels of skill IC even though OOC the jobs will probably all be capped eventually. For example, he's a mage type first and foremost, so he studies all schools of magic and those jobs are the ones he's most skilled at. Being a Miqo'te he's got some skill in archery as well, specifically leading to Bard where he'll mix it with magic. If we get a gun/Musketeer class in the future he'll have some skill in that too, first because guns are somewhat similar to archery, and second because he's from Limsa and would have grown up around it, so it's reasonable that he would have a least learned to use one some. But he would by no means be as skilled with a bow or gun as he is in magic. If they add a sword using magic class like Red Mage, he'll take that up IC after learning some rudimentary sword techniques from his Paladin friend Ryuki.
Other classes, melee classes and such, I'll be playing on an alt. I'm interested in playing Monk, but it doesn't fit Caysen at all.
