FFXIV Bitter Sweet

[Hanabira]

The reason battle is so bland and why elemental weaknesses were removed was because they want you to have this false sense of every job being more or less equal. They dont want any situation where a duty finder group is impossible with any setup you get stuck with.. nor do they want any job being shunned from any content. Problem with this is that since everyone can do just about everything, there is no need to make strategy, there is no ability that are especially useful for particular fights and there is no content where BLM can shine or struggle. If we had titan in 1.0, blm would never be able to go. They could have simply removed elementals from primals (which sounds very stupid, but is the only thing blms would be unable to do)

[Soukyuu]

It's not about FFXI vs. FFXIV as some people seem to think.

In my case, it's not about FFXI at all, since I never touched it. Well, fine, I did use the trial and took a few circles around... Bastok, was it? Haven't done anything else though since the UI is just horrible and I was spending more time fighting with it than doing anything else.

Point is, games nowadays are too afraid to scare away people. And people just want quick fun, hence the raise of the mobile gaming.
Oh how I wish for a game to actually have a challenging monster AI for a change, not a shallow set of pre-scripted patterns. It doesn't even have to be too punishing, but it has to make you understand you're doing something wrong. Throwing an insane amount of damage on you is not challenging, it's just cheap 1hko mechanics, especially when the biggest challenge is to predict how much server lag you will have. I lost count to how many times I got hit by an AoE I was nowhere near to. I prefer to actually make mistakes, cause hell, at least I can learn from them and improve. All I'm improving from lag is my sixth sense.

The reason battle is so bland and why elemental weaknesses were removed was because they want you to have this false sense of every job being more or less equal. They dont want any situation where a duty finder group is impossible with any setup you get stuck with.. nor do they want any job being shunned from any content. Problem with this is that since everyone can do just about everything, there is no need to make strategy, there is no ability that are especially useful for particular fights and there is no content where BLM can shine or struggle. If we had titan in 1.0, blm would never be able to go. They could have simply removed elementals from primals (which sounds very stupid, but is the only thing blms would be unable to do)

I can't remember any content where BLMs weren't welcome in 1.0 Hell, we had mostly 1xTank+1xHealer+6xBLM parties. blms not being preferred for a content would have been a change for the better. MNK was the direct opposite, not because it was gimped, but because people thought it was gimped.

As for elements, they could just add an elemental manipulation spell, that allowed you to change the element for a limited time, or just give blm access to all the elements, for example by cross-classing WHM's stone/aero. It's not really an issue beyond the fact that people are too lazy to think about what they do, apparently.

Not all games should be made for you casuals though.

I'm a casual player. I want challenge. I want deep gameplay. I don't want instant gratification. Casual does not equal lazy, don't lump me with them please.