Quote Originally Posted by Amsai View Post
Yes but change for the sake of change is not a good thing. Also I couldn't disagree with the OP more. I'd also like to flip it around. FFXI did a lot, I mean A LOT of things right: If it aint broke, don't fix it! See what I did there? Class uniqueness, party roles and dynamics, limitations to armor types and rank requirements, and specialized skills that make a class excell at something more so than any other class, that are NOT able to be cross-classed. So I wouldnt eliminate the ability to do so cross class skills, because it is better than FFXIs sub job system. However I would want it to be mostly basic skills. FFXIV allows far too much freedom, which while it does offer customization, it doesnt do it in a healthy way. Instead of creating unique flavor, everything feels the same, and everyone is trying to fill all roles at once (i.e. All-In-Ones).
I think FFXI was the best MMORPG to come out since original UO. But alot of the things that people had to say about it was it was too hard and it took too long to find a party and a tank ect...because every class was so class specific that if you weren't something and did something specific you were left out. I disagree whole heatedly but these were the complaints and that is what gave this game its birth. I understand where you are coming from with the class uniqueness ect ect. But that doesn't mean the whole core system needs to be removed. Just tweaked to work properly. Because I think the customization of the stats is needed its good and that having skills used from whatever class is good too. Just make the affinity less if its that big of a deal. Which it doesn't seem like that because my cure hasn't gotten any better in my 42 ranks of pug that's because Im not going to put anything into mind and its already working at half efficiency because its a sub class skill, so if these ALL IN ONES want to gimp themselves they will learn, but I think this system will promote a lot of really sweet builds end game and hats why I don't want to lose it.