The Armory System and What It Could Have Been

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

From the short time I've peeked at the Secret World, it appears to be one of the closest executions to a balanced Armoury System and would have very much liked to see FFXIV have polished the system in a similar vein instead of the 1.18 and 2.0 overhauls.

E.g. Learning abilities and traits from any and all weapons, then mixing and matching them together within the limit (FFXIV was AP cost I think), then gearing up to suit your load out.

Perhaps in a paralell universe, the Armoury System got to see a greater life in Hydaelyn.

[Duelle]

From the short time I've peeked at the Secret World, it appears to be one of the closest executions to a balanced Armoury System and would have very much liked to see FFXIV have polished the system in a similar vein instead of the 1.18 and 2.0 overhauls.

The problem with TSW's system was that even though Decks (what they were probably going to implement as jobs in 1.0) exits, they are far outclassed by custom builds with specific abilities. This means that if you wanted to play a witch hunter, the game and the playerbase literally laughed at you for choosing it by making your performance inferior to that of characters that had no Decks set. That's not a risk I would have been willing to take (it's sitting up there next to my hatred of staves and how they managed to perma-glue themselves to paladins and red mages in FFXI pre-shield buff).