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Originally Posted by Ryans

My problem with jumping in FFXIV compared to WoW is that FFXIV is supposed to be a realistic genre of game. If they wanted to make a practical use of the jump feature in FFXIV, they'd have to make all the character races have the same jumping capability, which means all races need to jump the same height. I'd be fine with a lalafell being able to jump maybe... a foot?

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They could use a conditional jump, like FFXIII or FFX-2. That would let them adjust the jump animations depending on the race of the player.
For example, the lalafell would have to jump several times on rocks to climb a small cliff, where an Elezen would simply jump the cliff without problems.