The Stats and Points of Adept Rogues

Creation

The Adept Rogue creation screen

At the time of creation, the user picks 2 to 3 classes using a point-buy system, which restricts certain "unbalanced" combinations, such as Shadow Warlock and Harvest Cleric. They also pick freely from one of the 3 armor types (cloth, light armor, heavy armor). The Adept Rogue starts out in the game with their first chosen class, and must unlock the remainder through Job Extend. An Adept Rogue is given 4 points to use to choose from the following job options:

• Blade Brandier - 1 Point
• Edge Punisher - 1 Point
• Twin Blade - 1 Point
• Flick Reaper - 2 Points
• Lord Partizan - 2 Points
• Tribal Grappler - 2 Points
• Macabre Dancer - 3 Points
• Harvest Cleric - 3 Points
• Shadow Warlock - 3 Points
• Steam Gunner - 3 Points

Job Extend

Haseo's job being extended from first to second form

The "true power" of the Adept Rogue, Job Extend quests are limited-time quests in which an Adept Rogue may acquire his or her next form. One form the quests have taken is as a challenging solo dungeon where the Adept Rogue must not only fend for himself or herself, but also solve a puzzle hidden in the dungeon itself. Another is one that can only be completed with the help of friends; if the Rogue opens the chest at the Beast Statue without the aid of others, the item is vaporized. It must be opened by the full party.

Usefulness

Skills

Although fully-extended Adept Rogues are allotted three jobs, their job levels raise much more slowly than any other class. Thus, a level 20 Shadow Warlock will have access to more skills than a level 20 Adept Rogue with Shadow Warlock as his or her only unlocked job. However, although progression is slower, a fully leveled Adept Rogue has access to more skills than any single class, and is very useful as a "jack of all trades". When an Adept Rogue obtains their final Job Extension, they obtain the ability to use Multi-Trigger. This allows the user to mix and match Skill Triggers from different jobs, automatically switching weapons to accommodate a chosen skill.

Stats

An Adept Rogue's stats are balanced though slightly dependent of their chosen Jobs. Though they don't have the full skill set as the full classes, the stats will change according to what that pick. For example, if an Adept Rogue chose to be a Twin Blade and a Shadow Warlock, the speed boost from the Twin Blade, and the magic boost from the Shadow Warlock will be higher than the rest of the stats the Rogue will have. Though it's not significant, it's still enough to be efficient on the classes that person chose.

Though because of the slight boosts from the classes, the Adept Rogues are still "jack of all trades, but master of none."