This is getting frustrating ...

[Bishop81]

There are, quite literally, an infinite amount of things within SE's means to add to the game, but only a small portion of that infinity can actually be included. There are a lot of reasons for this; workload, design choices, time constraints. Sometimes, even things that the developers would really like to see included can't be or are delayed longer than they would like.

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I can understand if it takes up months or even weeks of development time but this change really is incredibly trivial to implement - as anyone who know anything about programming can tell you.

The art for the Carbuncles is already done. The code for summoning and controlling the Carbuncles is also done. Adjusting potency values can be done in a few keystrokes as can copying-pasting 2 skills to SMN's spellbook.

the only real problem with this is they would have to make a new carbuncle colour for ifrit and that takes time/resources. otherwise yeah sure whatever

Just skip that. No one uses Ifrit anyway. xD

Classes are outdated. They have been since 1.21. They'd have to overhaul the system to make them have any kind of functionality and that would just take away from creating an expansive job systems. I don't see how you could possibly know their plans for 3.0. The reason they don't have base classes could be that they are getting rid of the class system and making cross job abilities.

With regards to their plans for 3.0, it's really more of a personal observation than stating of facts.

Having played WoW for over 8 years, I know how their classes are designed and why. FFXIV just seems to be going down the same route - Yoshi-P is after all a fan of WoW, so he replicating their class design isn't surprising.

[WellFooled]

I can understand if it takes up months or even weeks of development time but this change really is incredibly trivial to implement - as anyone who know anything about programming can tell you.

I know nothing about programming, so you might be more informed than I am (I'm curious, do you have experience in programming? Could you show us an example of what kind of coding lines would go into making a change like this?) but workload was only an example.

It's just as likely that the developers have made the choice not to do this because they don't want to. Like you said, how important something is is subjective. They may not view it as at the same level of importance that you do. I think it's fair to say no one does but that's passion I guess.

The point I'm trying to make though, isn't that you're wrong for asking for a new feature or that the feature wouldn't be cool, but you're not doing it with a lot of tact. It's the difference between "I would love to see this added, please consider it" vs. "The lack of this feature is why I'm not playing, you don't listen to your customers".

[loreleidiangelo]

Just skip that. No one uses Ifrit anyway. xD

OBJECTION!

[Eul]

Just skip that. No one uses Ifrit anyway. xD

Nope, I'm still using it on roulette and primal :/