Remove or decrease race penalties

[FrankReynolds]

So if you don't need to change races (meaning the change provides negligible to non-existent bonuses), then therefore reducing or eliminating race differences is equally unnecessary.

Or we just don't need to have them at all. The real question is not whether or not the racial stats make a difference. The question is whether or not they enhance the enjoyment of the game. A few people think they are a good thing because they think that it somehow makes them a more unique and special snowflake. While others (myself included) find them to be a nuisance which causes a lot of problems without any real tangible benefit.

I was responding to the suggestion that players chose a race for the job they wanted to play, only to have SE change that job and force the player(s) to chose a different job. Don't take my response as an original idea to make it sound less credible. The original suggestion wasn't credible and that was the point of my response.

You were insinuating that it was the players responsibility to pick a race based on the jobs they want to play, which in a game that never changes would still be a difficult task because a person can't really know what they like until they have tried it and at that point it is too late to change.

In reality though, the devs keep adding jobs and events which means that a players taste is highly subject to change. It is virtually impossible to choose the correct race if you play for any reasonable amount of time.

For example: Joey picks his race based on his desire to play red mage. The devs continuously make red mage suck (true story. You can check on this). Joey decides that even though he loves red mage, he must become a monk to be successful in end game and contribute to events with his friends. Didn't joey get shit on enough already by having his job become weak and undesired? do you really need him to have to re-roll his character and waste months / years redoing everything now too? Why are you so sadistic?

So you've never played a game like, oh, I don't know, WoW, or DND? You've never played a game where you select race -and- job and they're frozen (aside from sub/secondaries)?

This game has 20(22) jobs that you can change to at any time. It has nothing to do with WoW's job system and that is one of it's biggest selling points.

"11" was an example, but the fact remains that the argument to lower (or reduce) race differences is fundamentally so that DDs aren't "gimped" my something so trivial.

And why should they be?