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Faith · **08-31-2013, 09:02 PM**

I Â don't know if this has been a thread before or not. I was just wondering the general thought on more than one job/class in rp.

Bloodwillow · **08-31-2013, 09:06 PM**

Depends on the person. Â I picked up all the classes for Bloodwillow but only her MRD and ARM count as IC until I get WAR. Â Anything else she does is completely OOC. Â Mainly for cross class skills

Seloria · **08-31-2013, 09:09 PM**

(08-31-2013, 09:02 PM)Faith Wrote: I Â don't know if this has been a thread before or not. I was just wondering the general thought on more than one job/class in rp.

Eminently possible. People dabble, with different skills to a main focus. A lancer that can swing a sword, Conjurer attempting to build up his stamina learning the pugilists techniques...

Kismet · **09-01-2013, 12:47 AM**

In my personal experience...

As long as the lore actually allows for people to take up multiple kinds of magic and/or professions, most treat it as a "you can know everything but only be a master of one" type of thing.

So if you want your character to be capable of using Thaumaturgy, Conjury, and Arcanima? That's absolutely fine. But it's good nature to have them only be particularly efficient in (or a master of) one of them. It's too overpowered to have your character to know enough of each of the disciplines to be capable of Black Magic, White Magic, summoning Egis, AND summoning fairies. But could they be a White Mage who can both summon Carbuncle and toss out a Fire spell ICly? I don't see why not.

However, you'll certainly tweak things to your own preferences and according to who you're RPing with.

Nimarhie · **09-01-2013, 01:07 AM**

Taijha has all the mage classes Conjuror, Thaumaturge and Arcanist. All three are IC, but Thm is something she only dabbled in briefly and decided she didn't like it. I leveled it up to 5 and stopped to represent this. Smile

Cnj she went to "school" for, and then found books about Scholars/Arcanists and their type of magic... she has never been to Limsa IC'ly. Nothing in the main story so far pertains to her, except for joining a Company (most likely).

Lost River · **09-01-2013, 01:09 AM**

I'm fine with anything as long as it doesn't end up 'marry-sue' the character. My character Lucinne? She will be a Paladin/Warrior. Sure, two jobs, but those are the two most aspects that'd both define her as a being. Other than that growing learning profession of the two, everything else would be considered OOC.

erosskye · **09-01-2013, 01:12 AM**

My "Character" is going to be a black mage.Â But thats not going to stop me from actually playing the game to its fullest and gaining everything on my character for raiding and such. =)

Kadika · **09-01-2013, 01:28 AM**

i see it as complimentary skills.

So for instance, a good archer would want to be well trained in some form of close range combat aswell. Vice versa for someone who's versed in the art of the blade, having a bow at their command would be vital for targets beyond blade's reach.

Tessa for example, was trained in Gladiatorial swordplay, and became a free paladin of eorzea, but she also trained long and hard to become adept with a bow. Lending to her paladin abilities, she's dabbled with conjury, but only really has minor ability in it.

Lost River · **09-01-2013, 01:33 AM**

As with others here, I suspect it all revolves around with what you want to do with the character.

FreelanceWizard · **09-01-2013, 02:53 AM**

The important thing, IMO, is to have an IC justification for those skills, especially if they seem a bit, well, "out of character." Smile

So, if you're mostly a spellcaster and you pick up levels of, say, Gladiator, you'll want to have a reason why. Perhaps you wanted to be able to better defend yourself if taken by surprise in melee combat; perhaps you sought the glory of being a Gladiator, standing tall in the arena; maybe you just like the idea of standing as the bulwark, protecting your friends.

Lost River · **09-01-2013, 03:17 AM**

(09-01-2013, 02:53 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: The important thing, IMO, is to have an IC justification for those skills, especially if they seem a bit, well, "out of character." So, if you're mostly a spellcaster and you pick up levels of, say, Gladiator, you'll want to have a reason why. Perhaps you wanted to be able to better defend yourself if taken by surprise in melee combat; perhaps you sought the glory of being a Gladiator, standing tall in the arena; maybe you just like the idea of standing as the bulwark, protecting your friends.

Precisely! It's why Lucinne is going to be a Paladin/Warrior. She's mastering the heavy armed combat to better protect others and herself. It's her driving passion to show she isn't a stereotypical Duskwight.

Clover · **09-01-2013, 03:33 AM**

(09-01-2013, 02:53 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: The important thing, IMO, is to have an IC justification for those skills, especially if they seem a bit, well, "out of character." So, if you're mostly a spellcaster and you pick up levels of, say, Gladiator, you'll want to have a reason why. Perhaps you wanted to be able to better defend yourself if taken by surprise in melee combat; perhaps you sought the glory of being a Gladiator, standing tall in the arena; maybe you just like the idea of standing as the bulwark, protecting your friends.

Conjurer here, also going for Gladiator ICly. Holding a sword in your hands and using it to defend yourself is a very easy thing to do; it doesn't require you to have a super special training. Just take that sword and use it-- that's what Clover will do.

moody · **09-01-2013, 05:06 AM**

ICly I'll be setting up as a SMN/SCH/ACN (because they all process as branches of ACN magic in my mind.) and choosing one of these to be a 'specialty' but he's not going to be the 'ultimate mage' in any of them. ICly the character's main skills will be as a gatherer and crafter.Â

He's running as a travelling merchant selling his wares and uses summons to facilitate that. His retainers are his staff and he uses the summons for various tasks for the business ( pulling the cart, organizing stock, moving loads of items, etc etc ). So while he'll be strong as a summoner he won't necessarily have amazing combat skills. He'll be good at thinking and strategy to use what he has.Â

OOCly though I plan to play just about every class as the mood strikes me. Right now I'm doing the grind to get his IC classes where they need to be and I'll be involved in RP more once I'm good with that.

ForestGuardian · **09-01-2013, 01:51 PM**

I'm RPing Hyltwakka as a Conjurer/Pugilist/Botanist, and that's more or less extending into their respective Jobs (White Mage and Monk) for a sort of White Monk like in FFTA/A2.Â

I fully expect a great number of people to be RPing more than one class/job, because it opens up even more possibilities like this.

Lost River · **09-01-2013, 04:28 PM**

Lucinne my Palwarridan looks forward to see you all!

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