Chemist Development Thread

[Schwerpunkt]

I seriously doubt it. The classes are basically identical except one applies to allies and one applies to enemies. But okay, take a whack at it.

[kablizzy]

Oh, right, I get that, but my concept is... Like, for instance, right now, they're basically identical. But look at Ninja and Samurai and Knight thusfar. All Ninja did was throw stuff in FFT. That's it. Now he's a mage-slashing DPS monster. Completely different concept there now. Samurai was 100% self-AoE. Now he's a Magic-eating tankaroonie. Much, much different there. Knights in FFT only benefit was breaking your opponent's crap, and now he's turned into a tank that'll probably end up doing a bit less damage and a whole lot more party-protection. So, when I look at both Dancer and Bard, I say throw most of that shit out the window - Dancer, as I've alluded to before, has a ton of options open to it. There's a lot of FF Canon out there that's really cool that doesn't have as much to do with FFT, and plus, we can make her focus a bit more on evasion instead of debuffs. Bard, on the other hand, doesn't have as much behind it, but if we change Dancer up enough, we can move both Dancer and Bard concepts onto Bard, working in Buff and Debuff into the Bard skillset. Plus, I'm sure Mord and Ilium both have some ideas to throw at 'em, so we'll give it a shot. May not work out, but eh.

[Ilium]

Chemistry

Throw Item: Innate ability.

Combat Medic: Battlefield Medicine from HoI. Two items in one turn.

Molotov: AoE fire elemental damage. Requires Phoenix Down.

Thick Fume: Requires
Potion: AoE small chance of Blind. Requires Hi Potion: AoE small chance
to Silence. Requires X Potion: moderate chance of Poison.

Field Pack: 50% chance of using item not currently in stock.

Pheromone Mix: Requires Maiden's Kiss. Moderate chance to inflict Charm on target unit.

Purified Solution: Requires Holy Water. AoE water elemental damage. 

Pharmacon: Requires Hi-Ether. Douse your weapon in the ether and send it straight into your enemies bloodstream. MP cost.

Damage = PA * (WP + 2)
Paroxysm: Requires elixir. Slight HP and MP damage and moderate chance to inflict Confuse.

Redress: Requires Remedy. AoE ability with moderate chance to negate all positive and negative status effects in target area.

Vaccine: Requires Antidote. 50% chance to neutralize next status effect (good or bad).

Reaction

Auto-Potion

Countermeasure: If
inflicted with a status effect, 40% chance to negate it with the
corresponding item if the Chemist has it equipped or has learned the
item skill.

Support

Expanded Backpack

Pharmacist: Potion effects are doubled.

Theurgist: Ether effects are doubled.

Movement

Move-Find Item

[kablizzy]

I shall comment here when I have a bit more time.