Memories of the old days.

[Balloon]

I find it shocking that after 4 years of abyssea being out we're still having this "Adjust abyssea to 75!!!" discussion. It's not going to happen, nor should it. It's very easy to have rose tinted goggles about this, but the fact of the matter is that for most people leveling jobs the old fashioned way was tedious and long.

The leveling experience is dead, it's not coming back, and nor should it. The game branched out, and it's much better now to have a wide array of jobs that you can use. The speedy leveling process of Abyssea supports this play style.

Jobs aren't even nearly played the same in endgame content as they are in a party situation, so 'learning' your job is utter crap. This game is not mechanically diverse enough to require 'learning' jobs.

FFXI really didn't take that much skill at 75, either, you're delusional if you think that buff stacking wasn't an issue back then either.

We do need a server merge though, desperately. I keep hearing people ask for 18man alliance content, and I am one of those people who enjoys that style of content too, but I can't see it working with the population of servers sitting at <600 for NA/EU players. The problem though is that while the NA/EU populations are dwindling, the japanese usually have a healthy 1000-1500 people.

I know it's not going to happen, but I feel the integrated servers have run their purpose now, english and japanese players do not integrate, and it'd be much more beneficial for the dwindling NA/EU playerbase to have our populations merge into a much smaller array of servers. It's very hard to keep enthusiastic about the game when nothing happens in it.

[Demonjustin]

Jobs aren't even nearly played the same in endgame content as they are in a party situation, so 'learning' your job is utter crap. This game is not mechanically diverse enough to require 'learning' jobs.

I wish people would understand this, really. I know people who were arguing just yesterday that if not for Abyssea we wouldn't have all of these SCHs running around who fail at stunning in Tojil runs, as though stunning were a skill we picked up between levels 1 and 98 as a SCH rather than something of a skill SCH's were to have developed only as of recently. It reminded me of people who complained about SCHs who sucked in NNI back before Adoulin, as though curing multiple people while keeping up 3 key buffs over the span of an entire zone as they spread out for 3 minutes were a leveling acquired skill that these people just didn't pick up due to Abyssea leveling.

Allas, this message never seems to sink in with many people who argue against Abyssea in such a way.