Props to an awesome game, but I just cannot "connect"

[Taerra]

I feel like grinding to get gear and now ( sigh atma ) is a waste because I can't connect to any of the current in-game jobs. Why bother getting an atma weapon for my blm when in fact I'm just cruisin' along until a new job comes out ?

None of them gets me excited, I'm basically just "waiting" on rdm/blu or some other kind of magic/melee hybrid to come out. This is kinda of a depressing way of playing a game.

Anyone else feels the same ?

[Grizzlebeard]

Anyone else feels the same ?

Pretty much yes. The classes/jobs are such watered-down versions of their FFXI counterparts that I feel little to no excitement at playing them. That said, while I'd love to see other jobs like Ninja, Red Mage, or Dancer released I have to temper my enthusiasm with the knowledge they'll be as bland and uninspiring as the current choices. It'll just be a different flavoured whack-a-mole.

[CYoung187]

I agree the classes are kinda bland, especially mages. I'm not even sure I am excited for RDM, the best part of it is the large selection of abilities. Mage classes in XIV have so little abilities to choose from. Elemental weaknesses are irrelevent. I miss having that large list of spells I could use, even if I rarely used a lot of them. How would they even handle BLU when they seem dedicated to every class having so few abilities?

[Metabug]

Consoles/Gamepad limitations.

[Lord_Zlatan]

Consoles/Gamepad limitations.

right because the game people are referencing (FFXI) was not available on consoles, that were coincidentally played with a gamepad.

People forget that a lot of the abilities and such that comprised such a huge list were added after the fact. We will need more abilities for sure, but your naive to think that what we have now will be the final incarnations of these jobs.

[Vaara]

Pretty much yes. The classes/jobs are such watered-down versions of their FFXI counterparts that I feel little to no excitement at playing them. That said, while I'd love to see other jobs like Ninja, Red Mage, or Dancer released I have to temper my enthusiasm with the knowledge they'll be as bland and uninspiring as the current choices. It'll just be a different flavoured whack-a-mole.

For jobs like Black Mage I would probably agree, but the various melee DPS in 11 were pretty watered down already. I would say Monk is far more enjoyable in 14.

[Seif]

Well the current classes/jobs are standard MMO cliches. We have tanks healers and dps types. The Final Fantasy job part is basically just different skins over the three types.

I'm sure we'll get you RDMs and NINs sooner or later but to expect something else that you're now getting is dumb. They're still going to be tweaked into just one of the three types.

If it's just asthetic tweak you're looking for then you have nothing to worry about. Maybe just take a break until the expansion or so?

[CYoung187]

right because the game people are referencing (FFXI) was not available on consoles, that were coincidentally played with a gamepad.

People forget that a lot of the abilities and such that comprised such a huge list were added after the fact. We will need more abilities for sure, but your naive to think that what we have now will be the final incarnations of these jobs.

You're* and I don't think anyone said that. This game is based on rotations, so I doubt it will ever have anywhere the amount of abilities XI had. Some of these jobs to be added just won't be the same as their XI versions that people hope for.

[Doo]

Not enough cool abilities for the sake of balance makes it bland. Just like gear stats are bland.

[Grizzlebeard]

For jobs like Black Mage I would probably agree, but the various melee DPS in 11 were pretty watered down already. I would say Monk is far more enjoyable in 14.

Monk is one of the few FFXI jobs I didn't play past 20 but, I agree with you, it didn't exactly seem busy with skills. I predominantly played ninja, paladin, dancer, corsair and to a lesser extent bard and white mage. The differences in skillsets between some of those jobs in FFXI and FFXIV is massively significant and rather saddening.