Not as much as you may think. Yeah, I realize I write a lot (and I get winded in writing), but I like to be concise, and I tend to apologize for winding myself that much. Though that pales in comparison with the people that usually hang in Intellectual Discussion...
You and Andromeda have one thing in common... Wanna guess what?
If you're going to design a class for players, it should be balanced compared to the average of all classes. Anything that works better than all classes doesn't seem to cut it, specifically if it has an automatic Movement Ability (usually, all inherent abilities are support AND based on FF-classic abilities, such as Monks fighting Bare-Handed or Ninjas using Two Swords) Also, the abilities should be thematic in origin: adding a weird set of moves doesn't seem to cut it. If it's a monster class, you have some more liberties in the area of Attack abilities, but your other abilities are restricted. If it's for an enemy NPC, it should be no stronger than Altima/Ultima, which has some pretty amazing spells around. (sorry about that, had to divide my rant into 4 pieces because it constantly broke the limit for words)
One more thing; if the class forces a bizarre algorithm to work aside from those already established, something's wrong. Mostly, that's what I see with the "energy counters" system you seek to apply (either be by counting turns, or making a support ability designed for the sole purpose of enhancing one of the classes' moves).
Now, that's a bit complex to do in FFT mechanics, since essentially you can't transmigrate any character other than Reis (Holy Dragon -> Dragoner). So, the closest catch would be making the Archangel as a monster class, much like the aforementioned classes: already learned all of its skills, but you can't actually change the class OR the skills beyond those mentioned. My approach would be: the character would already Fly, so nothing else in the area of movement. Force a Holy element on it. All monsters have Counter, so it should have Counter as well. Add just a few moves (I liked the Divine abilities, I could have agreed just for those three and a Holy move, and that's it). Perhaps add a perma-Faith ability, and cause your attacks to be Faith-dependant.
I did gave my reasoning; it should be a class much like Construct 8 or the Byblos, instead of a player class. Perhaps you never played the Tactics Ogre games (you should, if you love FFT you'll absolutely love these games even if they show their age). That game had a weird class called the "Angel Knight". These characters had ridiculous requirements to change (very high stats, a specific Alignment, a specific gender, and they actually had to DIE IN MIDST OF BATTLE!!) They were quite powerful (could fly, equip most armor, and such), but there was a catch; once that happened, they couldn't change back. And Angel Knights were balanced.
is the NEW Archangel class still BROKEN?
That is because I, along with Valkyarc, took care of the TFF World forum section, which pretty much settled us as "mods". However, for purposes of the forum, we weren't real mods as we don't deal with any of the already-established sections of the forum and weren't ratified by the rest of the Mods. It's a pretty weird concept, but technically I ain't a mod in the proper sense of the word.
i remember seein your name in the moderators' list...
Nope, not even a full-fledged mod. I'm old in this forum (lemme see...almost 5-6 years in here), but never been a full-fledged moderator, much less a Super Mod. I'd ask why the question, but it's nothing of importance.
didn't you used to be a super-mod??
i meant oscar th grouch, not you!
Nah, no could do. First, I don't have Photoshop. Second, my face over his cloak? Would seem silly and badly done, so a big no. I'd say the third and fourth, but I'd need to know if you were referring to me or referring to something else.
You should photoshop Oskar into Orlandu's cloak=D
Erm, the reason why I have this avatar is because of something that happened on MSN. I just happen to like the work, so... Still, you got me curious on that. And yeah, the "T.G." in my username is based off T.G. Cid, but it has another meaning (though that one is a bit harder to explain)
