Tough question to answer, but for combat in general I can say that healing is great, elemental is great, melee is great. Basically, everything is needed, and since everyone can do everything most people level them approximately equally.
For the crafting bit, jewelcrafting normally drives people insane, considering that you have to level 6 trees at once. That means there are usually less master jewelcrafters than the rest crafts.
This all means nothing though, I would instead recommend you to do whatever you find fun. If you love blasting stuff to bits, do some ele, when you get bored with that, go and harvest for some crafting, then do some healing.
Thats the great thing on atys, you can do anything you like, anytime you like. There are no "positions" to fill in the endgame, every mastered craft will always be appreciated by those around you. The "endgame" fights that you can do often requires both high melee and high elemental from the DPS, as you have to switch halfway through, and at the same time good heal so you can help out the healers in a pinch.
For the crafting bit, jewelcrafting normally drives people insane, considering that you have to level 6 trees at once. That means there are usually less master jewelcrafters than the rest crafts.
This all means nothing though, I would instead recommend you to do whatever you find fun. If you love blasting stuff to bits, do some ele, when you get bored with that, go and harvest for some crafting, then do some healing.
Thats the great thing on atys, you can do anything you like, anytime you like. There are no "positions" to fill in the endgame, every mastered craft will always be appreciated by those around you. The "endgame" fights that you can do often requires both high melee and high elemental from the DPS, as you have to switch halfway through, and at the same time good heal so you can help out the healers in a pinch.
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Gasket
"It's shite being tryker! We're the lowest of the low. The scum of Atys! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some people hate the Matis. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We're ruled by effete arseholes. It's a shite state of affairs to be in, Marceline, and ALL the fresh air in the world won't make any ****** difference"