Jobs ONLY fate party?Follow

First off, let me state that I am aware that a Job is required for party play and a class is used for solo.I use SCH for any kind of dungeon runs or primal fights, and if I am soloing or doing quest i change to ARN. So here's the situation....

I finally got my SCH to 40 (hurray me) and decided to seek a FATE party in Northern Than. I shouted and got an invite almost instantly. I ran FATE's for a whole day and learning the routine FATE's and what to do and not do to on each one. The next day I go back and join up again with another FATE party, after some FATE's i decide to change to ARN and use my TOPAZ carby as the routine FATE's in North Than do not require a healer to be on point to keep the party members alive.
Now, I am fully aware that the Chimera (spelling?) FATE does in fact require me to be on point as a healer, so, when that FATE pops, i change back to SCH and do nothing but have Eos spamming her cure/buff abilities while I cure members and raise those who fall ASAP to get them back in the fight. After the fight I change back to ARN. At this point, the party leader and a few other members decide to cap-lock inform me that if I wish to use a class then i should do so solo and keep to my job when in a party. Shortly after their educational lesson I am kicked from the party.

Was I wrong in using my class in a FATE party?

I was actually getting more exp as my ACN and it's gives me something to do rather then just spam Ruin II and Bio. Using those 2 spells is the only way I can get some sort of decent exp as my SCH in FATEs. The party members kill stuff really quickly. When using topaz carby, his AOE attack was netting me more exp then SCH.

I don't mind healing, i still do it as my ACN, i just get more from it when using TOPAZ. Also, i don't have THA leveled. Granted i could go and lvl it to 15 and get SMN but why can't i just use carby? is there that much of a difference between SMN and ACN in the way of a FATE party??

I never join fate parties and attack their tapped mobs and get gold everytime i show up before its half finished, don't understand why people form parties other than to be social.

Sounds like a bunch of idiots to me. Its easy to cap gold on any ARC JOB. Bio spam all taggged mobs = profit. Even if I show up late and do this I got gold. LOL@FATE parties. The only benefit I see is you get a lil bonus exp for the mobs that get tagged first from aoe spam.

Edited, Sep 12th 2013 8:43am by nonameoflevi

You did absolutely nothing wrong.

First, it is not mandatory for you to use Jobs (although most of the time it is recommended). Off the top of my head, a typical example of when i would rather use class rather than job is with mrd. I could use some nice dps buffs and skills if i am on mrd instead of warrior; and in your case as a sch, obviously i would change to acn if i want my pet to tank smth. also, in a FATE party, it just does not matter.... the people who screamed at you were just rude. i man, if they expected u to heal, and you let one of them die, then it was probably your fault, but it is not like acn cannot heal with physick or smth :/

No. Idiots.

Edited, Sep 12th 2013 9:45am by lolgaxe

Ok this might be a slight derail, but I just hit 30 and thinking about getting my first job. This is first I ever heard of job = party, class = solo.

Who decided this and why?

Are there some advantages to only soloing as a class or only partying as a job?

The whole class/solo, job/party thing i wouldn't say it a 'official' rule but it does, in my opinion, to naturally work that way. My SCH is extremely good at group healing once i got Eos's lvl 40 ability. And my ARN is better at soloin' due to topaz carby.

In response to a earlier comment also, if i would have stayed ARN during the Chimera fight, i could see the groups reasoning for being pissed, but i knew that FATE required me to be on point as a healer so I changed to SCH for group healing. No one died from any other FATEs we ran while in the area.

It is important to note that you gain more than just abilities from using ajob, you gain a stat bonus too. So by going ACN vs smn/sch you are hurting your dmg/max healing potential.

Cross class has its use though, and personally i prefer everyone in fate to use a class over a job, then everyone has raise.

Fates take very little to actually get gold and if you cross class a few ae skills thats all you really need.

I can think of some reasons why I would go Thm instead of BLM. The class skills from blm arent really that essential, and provided I had leveled my secondary class a bit higher, I would expect that I could get some nice buffs from a cross class skill. Provided I could still wear all of my blm gear, and the int boost from being on the blm job isn't really that much of a difference, it seems like a reasonable possibility.

Edited, Sep 12th 2013 3:53pm by Valkayree

Same difference.