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Old 07-08-2007, 11:47 AM   #6
 
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Re: The License Board

It was a neat idea that was botched due to severe balancing issues. Licenses are for the most part far too cheap, allowing you to make every character good at everything rather then forcing you to specialize in only one or two areas. In addition, offensive magic is significantly less useful then physical attacks as they are slower to use, cost MP that could be used more efficiently and are generally weaker. The only situation where magic is more useful is when fighting large groups of enemies and since this is a situation that only occurs occasionally a dedicated black mage or summoner is a useless endeaver. Dedicated healers are unnecessarily due to the aforementioned issue with licenses being too cheap, resulting in a rather no-brainer situation of either building a character that's only good at white magic or building a character that's good at white magic AND physical combat AND whatever else you feel like throwing in.

What you're basically left with is a set of six character that only really differ in what weapons you decide to give them.
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