WHM/COR ? Good IdeaFollow

Well, you get the benefit of the doubt since you actually haven't played the game. COR rolls are indeed half power when subbed, you never gain the bonuses for having the correct jobs in your party, and you can only keep up one roll. You'll also never, ever parry on as a WHM/COR for reasons for a couple reasons that I don't want to get into but trust me that they're pretty decent.

Now, mind you, if you're doing something fairly low risk, such as an exp party where you're not fighting super difficult mobs where everyone is almost dying every fight, then COR isn't a bad sub for the accuracy bonus or experience bonus rolls. I've done that myself on WHM and on other jobs too on occasion. But in most other situations, such as exp parties and at harder boss-fights battles where everyone is relying on you to keep them alive and every ounce of healing you can muster matters, you'd want a more reliable subjob such as Scholar.

This so reminds me when I was starting out, before I even learned how to play. I wanted to be a WHM/RNG. If I was going to be on the back, it just made perfect sense to me to help with bow and arrow. /BLM also didn't make sense to me at the time (Why would a white mage need anything from black magic?). I'm sure there was a WHM/RNG in one of the early FF's, so this wasn't exactly too far-fetched.

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We can also blame FF4 for SMN/BLMs, apparently

don't get creative until you've had experience with the jobs and have some knowledge of the game. if you bring "out of the box" (ie "i don't know yet why X is bad so i'm going to do it") thinking into the game and insist to players that they let you try it in party, you'll quickly develop a (deserved) bad reputation. obviously, do whatever you want solo, but it would be in your best interest to listen to other perspectives for that stuff too, probably.

if you're new and you show up, say WAR/WHM a couple times and then insist on keeping it when people suggest/tell you to change, there's a good chance of getting remembered. i've sort of /invite-blacklisted several people over the years, and leading all my XP parties i've heard a lot of "oh don't invite him/her, s/he XXXX". reputation is very important--and it doesn't have to be a big dramatic long term thing. as lots of you have experienced, if you do pick up parties, a lot of times you see the same people around your level (probably similar playtimes to you). if you come off as a stubborn noob/newb (love the distinction), they'll stop inviting you / accepting your invites. it's probably not stopping you from getting into a linkshell (though it might), but it is making your invites slower for the time being.

the bottom line is that you have to be open to the reasoning behind widely accepted choices in ffxi. the game is too team oriented to indulge everyone's learning process or quest to improve everything ("i'll show them how awesome i am when my new idea works!!"). innovation is great, and testing stuff yourself is great too. if you consistently test out things that people know are bad in a group context though, you'll get a deservedly bad reputation and have trouble getting people together to do the majority of the things in the game.

to put it another way, there's a lot of right and wrong answers in ffxi. if you end up not liking the right ones and preferring the wrong ones, a good idea is to quit and find a game more suited to your interests (or solo all the time). or find 6-18 people with exactly the same misconceptions about the game as yourself, but that's not very likely.

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incidentally, the OP hasn't even started the game yet i believe. i'm giving a warning, not an admonishment. many, many, MANY people have walked down the path of "my ingenuity will revolutionize ffxi, behold, my idea for a new job/subjob combo!!!" and they get bad reps fast. sh*t, i still remember that DRG/MNK from 2005 on phoenix, tigerhawk.

edit: the other half of my warning is, ffxi is not a difficult game to learn, but there's lots to learn. you're well-served to take an open stance toward it at first, not an aggressive "no, i get it, THIS is the way it works, yeah!" kind of stance.

Edited, May 30th 2010 5:19pm by milich

Quite right, it should function quite well at lower levels, as a subjob for support/healing. I've found the same thing with /brd, they're both very much under-appreciated as subjobs. As you level up, however, the most important thing to keep in mind when using it, though...

...is when to stop.

I was wondering if evoker's roll (mp regen roll, cor40) will have the same penalty as other rolls or if it'll be just as effective (like ballad); if that's the case it could be semi-useful in the next update offering 1-4 mana regen or 2-5 with smn :P Ofcourse it's still not a good choice for a full on healing specialist role but it has cheeese-potential. xD