Quote Originally Posted by Amsai View Post
No I'm not psychic, and Yoshi-P doesnt whisper to me in my dreams. However, the current direction of this game, and a few dev comments, and producers letters have more than hinted at this. I truly think that this is the general direction that clsses and jobs will take. Unfortunately, this does mean that 1 class alone and only 1 class will not be able to accomplish much. But you will either be able to cross-class or specialize in a Job. If they can ballance it right, it will likely just come down to a players personal choice. The last thing I want is that the Jobs end up making the cross-classers feel they HAVE to chose a Job. They did say that Full Party content will be tailored for Jobs, and that Light Party content would be tailored for Classes. If they can ballance it right though, I see no reason why it cant be mixed and matched according to what people want to do in a LS. I for instance only want to tank. I dont want to heal or DD or Nuke or buff/debuff. All I want to do is get hate and use defensive skills so I will definately be a Paladin. But I see no reason why I should only party with Jobers. You get a group of players to cover what needs to be covered (Job or no Job), and work a strategy around that.
Not only is it a high improbably to balance such a system, the developers themselves have shown they are not up to the task. Whenever you have more variables there is more to balance, because balance is essentially balancing one scenario vs another scenario, and well... more combinations, more scenarios.

You can give them all the fingers and toes to count with, it's not happening in any realistic world. That's one of the reasons it needed to change.

Secondly, no you can't have "I want to play my way". That's denotes a Single player game. That's how it is, and can't be change. The community aspect of it forces standardization, otherwise, you can't even battle monsters correctly.

You fight a monster for 10 minutes. you die. Another guys, comes in wacks it, you learn why...thus you becomes that character's clone. End of story. You are a winner or a loser. Having custom skills or play the way you want doesn't make you a winner. That's always been the point. You can choose to name yourself badasstank, walk and talk like badasstank, and have your own distinct badasstank skills. But you're not a badasstank. You're just a failure, because the winners work the system.

The illusion you can "Be what you want" is utterly and truly false, even more so in the armoury system, because it's so obvious how to abuse it.