Being able to do everything with one character is one of the biggest reasons I play FF MMO games.
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Being able to do everything with one character is one of the biggest reasons I play FF MMO games.
While a character's role throughout the series isn't specified, that shouldn't suggest that they weren't there. In every game, (in my experience) each character is depicted with a set of unique abilities that usually indicates their role in the party.
For example, while you can use Tifa in any way you want, her particular set of skills depicted in her limit breaks and stat advantages for physical combat allow us to deduct that she is a monk classed character. Cid, of course taking part as a Dragoon. These aren't coincidences. In all those games (Or at least most of them.) The characters all exhibit abilities unique to a particular job.
I mentioned in my first post that with the sheer amount of content for one character in a game like FFXI made it darn impossible to start up an alt for each job. Having to re-do nation missions, RoZ, CoP, ToAU, WoTG and the 6 addons doesn't make you better at your job, it means you have way too much time on your hands.
The focus for character progression in XIV isn't exp, grinding for 600+ hours doesn't make you a better player, you're still going to have awful players regardless of how long it takes D:
Instead, there's going to be more challenging content that will allow players skills to really show. Anyone can say "I got 50WHM" but who can say they got white ravens for example? Skill will be rewarded in ARR, not the grind.
Multiple Jobs is one of the best thing of Final Fantasy Online. And I would never want it removed.
I personally prefer the ability to change jobs as it were on a single character. I'll explain why now;
FFXI: Had one character, my Tarutaru, did all of RoTZ, CoP, Rank 10 Sandy/Windy/Bastok, like 5 75's (based off the 75 cap) and pretty decent gear as well as a handful of my AF2 from Dynamis.
Doing that, the missions, the gear, the leveling and so on makes a lot of memories and I can say that I have a "bond" if you like with that specific character. The sheer amount of time I've invested I can see at all times regardless of what job I am on to go to sky/dynamis as long as I have fun on it (and if it's 75 then I obviously did otherwise I wouldn't have stuck with it lol).
WoW: Had like 6 characters, 3 level 90's, done some questlines, done some raids, all of which are just grinds to me as (again, personally) I find that the lore in WoW is pants/not put across well... My "main" is my mage, yes I have done a few rep grinds that took months for a mount, sure I have my transmog tier sets but none of that was a challenge, it didn't make me remember the achievement of it, just the "ohnoes I spent 8 weeks doing the same 5 dailies each day to get this" is all that stuck.
I have no attachment to that character, I'm not saying delete it I won't care, I've still invested time into it, but I wouldn't even type that about my taru because my brain just goes "NO!" at the thought lol
I guess the point is, on WoW you have to make a whole new character for a job, and when you do that, you're not on your main character anymore, you distance yourself and everything changes. Back to level 1, with no reps, no gear, no professions... You have to grind up to 90 all over again, get your professions to 600 and so on. I've done it, I hated it.
All I want is one character, I don't have a problem with versatility as long as you can do whats expected & have fun, that's fine by me ^^
PS - I feel the need to add this, I know people these days but I'm hoping that there aren't any here as FF has a generally pretty decent community, but, in the unlikely event that a WoW player takes this as a "lets bash WoW" post, it isn't... Just look up the definition of "personally" and have some cake ^^b
Name transcends the mere fact of class most of the time. What I mean by this is that when everyone knows that every class/job is attainable to everyone, then people start looking at other things like damage output, skill, knowledge of routine, leadership. These are the things that you can make yourself a reputation with. It will sometimes come to the point where certain groups of people will have a very specific set of players for certain roles they do everyday.
For example, whenever I was in a PUG with relatively new players, there was one tank I knew that could handle any situation. If that guy wasn't on, there were a few others. In my mind, these guys were the best tanks because they knew so well how to do it, not just because they were that specific class.
I, as another example, was a pretty good bard and had the routines for CC and AV down to the dot. It was because of this that my LS's would often ask me to bard those raids, despite the fact that I much prefer to play Dragoon.
i totally disagree.. why?
because a jobchange system is first of all.. classical for a final fantasy.
secondly... when you are able to switch jobs you first of all need mostly one character and not thousands of anonymous twinks.. which is new in comparison to other mmorpgs.
Need a black mage? a wait a second.. let me switch to my twink character..
i kind of hate this.
The way it is now you really grow onto your character with his personality.. everyone in the LS knows who you are...
this way a character becomes a REAL (final fantasy) personality, instead of being "just a flat twink character"
you should think of that. i myself.. i am specialized into blm, whm and drg (and going to be smn also).. so everyone knows my personal taste and role.
Was actually talking to some friends about this yesterday. They'd not paid much attention to the FF MMOs, pretty much of the opinion that because WoW is so successful, it must mean the other (fantasy) MMOs aren't worth playing. I was talking about something to them and the fact of playing all jobs on one character (in XI) dropped into the conversation. The conversation was stopped as together they expressed their disbelief that a single character could level all 22 jobs. It was a real pull for them. We went inside and they signed up for the FFXIV Beta straight away.
With the other MMO I play a lot of, I have at least one character of each class levelled on my account, but there's only one for which I've taken the time to complete every single quest and achievement. I prefer the way FF is one character by a very long way.