Quote Originally Posted by Llana_Virren View Post
Logic error. "Returning players or those making mules" learned the lesson based on the current system; they didn't automatically know. There's no difference to new players, except new players now have a gross amount of information available to them (that we didn't have in 2002); so they should be more prepared to make that decision than experienced players were.
That whole paragraph was a "Logic error". I know more about this game than most people would care to know, but I still don't know what race is going to be best for geomancer and I certainly don't know what race will do best as a used car salesman or whatever other job they choose to develop in the future. Neither do you or any one else on this board. So give it up with the "Oh people should just choose wisely" nonsense.

Quote Originally Posted by Thegreatmonkey View Post
When I fist started to play this game (way back when it first came out in NA), I made a Hume knowing that there stats were more even. I later made a Tarutaru because I wanted the INT bonus and the races itself makes the game more fun. Tarutaru having low HP for just about any job they play and they have to keep that in mine when going to do events and what not. I don't think anything should be changed to make the races have more even stats as this dose add more divinity into the game. So what if I play a melee job on my Tarutaru, I will take that into account and add my own play stylist to it, to make up for the stat lost that I do not have for that job. There are a lot of ways that new players coming into the game can look at what each race stats start at.
That's all good and fine, except that you can't adjust your playstyle to get into my group because I know that your going to get one-shotted and I'm grabbing a galka instead. Sorry if that sounds rude, but the same crap happened to galkas back before massive refresh was added to the game. They used to get denied on mage jobs for lack of MP. I find it hard to believe that any of that enhances your enjoyment of the game, even if you think it does. These are the two most obvious problems, but definitely not the only ones.