1.18: Wipe your tears and open your eyes!

[Val_Rhys]

Accomplice is a rank 30 PGL skill... not LNC... :P

In all seriousness though, I don't believe they are necessary in all scenarios of tanking, however they serve as a great boon to one's ability to tank. If all it took to tank effectively was to rank GLA to 50 and be done, there'd be no long-term developmental goals.

The reason I ranked MRD and GLA up at all were to supplement my PGL tank with skills. The reason I ranked LNC was to get Invigorate II for my Archer. These goals keep me playing, trying out all the classes and discovering my unique playstyle.

My suggestions are in response to helping someone tank better - which with this system means accumulating hate more efficiently than the rest of the party's members.

My mistake regarding Accomplice.

I, too, only leveled MRD to 30 for my GLA and CON/THM for Cure/Sac II. I just don't know if I'm on board with this idea in the long term. If all cross-class abilities were restricted to, say, half the rank cap, I'd be much happier. I'm not against leveling other classes for some long-term goals, in a general sense. Perhaps they also restrict abilities such that only DoWs can share among DoWs, and DoMs share DoMs (or something). Just an idea though. There are tons of potential solutions and I'm hopeful the development team finds a good one.

I don't like the idea of a MRD or LNC casting Cure anyway, but maybe I'm too much of role-specific purist :P

I believe long term goals and character development should come from content achievements and gear acquisition. Leveling all classes seems like a bit of a gimmick. I also think being forced to level all classes to play a particular class effectively alienates a huge portion of the population (for time constraints). Achieving r50 should feel like you're ready to tackle endgame content - not feeling overwhelmed when having to grind out 6 more classes to some arbitrary rank for one or two random abilities.

[Rimmer]

I believe long term goals and character development should come from content achievements and gear acquisition. Leveling all classes seems like a bit of a gimmick. I also think being forced to level all classes to play a particular class effectively alienates a huge portion of the population (for time constraints). Achieving r50 should feel like you're ready to tackle endgame content - not feeling overwhelmed when having to grind out 6 more classes to some arbitrary rank for one or two random abilities.

This is one of my major concerns with the game currently, It really does feel as if to do one job particularly well im going to have to level up multiple classes just to be able to do that, very overwhelming indeed.

I do hope that in the future, possibly with the implementation of the job system that this problem will be resolved, it is a rather off putting element to the game, its definately scaring me off a bit as im sure it may well be for many other players and potential customers, as well as the lack of a good & fun levelling experience.

[mysterytaru]

This is one of my major concerns with the game currently, It really does feel as if to do one job particularly well im going to have to level up multiple classes just to be able to do that, very overwhelming indeed.

I do hope that in the future, possibly with the implementation of the job system that this problem will be resolved, it is a rather off putting element to the game, its definately scaring me off a bit as im sure it may well be for many other players and potential customers, as well as the lack of a good & fun levelling experience.

Every FF game with a job/class system has been this way. They all made use of cross classing to get the most out of the game. This isn't new. If that scares people, than maybe this isn't the game for them.