armory system useless? Mythology Cap

[Alcyon_Densetsu]

So instead of a badge grind you want rep grinds?

Uhhh… no?

Let's equate "rep" in another game with "jobs" here. You have 9 jobs to work with. Most people only focus 1, a few of us focus 2, and a tiny hardcore % focus 3 or more.

What I'm suggesting is the best of both world: there would be a 300 cap per week per job (therefore you can't gear any faster than currently), but you would be able earn tomes for any job playing any other job.

For instance, I play PLD. Let's imagine I also have a BLM 50.

1. Weekly reset on monday. I select "PLD" in a specific menu because that's my "main" job (typically would be a drop down menu in the DF window —*it's just about selecting which kind of tomes I want to get, I'm totally free to run dungeons using any other job).

2. Let's say I takes me until thursday to cap my PLD at 300 tomes. Whichever job I use, whichever dungeon I run, all the tomes I earn are "Tomes of the Paladin", therefore it works just as it does now: I can gear my PLD, playing any job I want.

3. Now let's say I'm not so casual and I still run more dungeons after that (to have fun with friends typically). Currently, I would get nothing (cap is per character).
With what I suggest, a per-job cap, means that I would then select "BLM". Again, whichever job/dungeon I play, I would keep on earning tomes but for BLM now. Maybe I'll get 100 until the next reset. Maybe more if I really want to gear my BLM. (remember, I can already do this if I had a second character who would be BLM 50, but I can't do it if my BLM 50 and my PLD 50 are on the same character: that's the whole point of my suggestion, trying to allow people to gear several jobs on the same character, since that's how this game is made: you can level up all jobs on the same character).

4. Next reset happens, on the next monday. All caps back to 0, therefore I select "PLD" again, and back to capping at 300.

I think it works. There's no additional grind if you don't want to (casual approach), but if you're a bit more hardcore, you can gear several jobs on the same character; but never does this system force you to play a specific job: I can earn my 300 PLD tomes while playing with my BLM if I so wish, it would just be a selector in a newfound menu.

As for your kind remark, please do not resort to ad hominem attacks: I'm just a player, like you, I just happen to suggest ideas that worked well in other games.

Also, when you say "All you WoWchildren just want instant gratification" : I don't see how it is "instant". Gratification, yes, that must be why most players actually play games. But in my scenario here, you would have to play double the time to gear 2 jobs instead of 1. Which you can already do by having two characters, but with this system, you can do it on the same char. I think it really empowers the current armory system, it makes it really worth using, instead of leveling up other characters entirely.