The Balance

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No, no no no no just no...snip.... I think SE realizes that and this is why we have PVP skills for PVP only. Also why PVP in this game is bit on sidelines (compared to PVE).

That's not what they said, at all.

Games that have a well developed pvp system integrated into a primarily pve game tend to have access to testing and player experiments. For instance, if you could duel in FF ARR baselines for all kinds of things could be researched, developed, and experimented with.

I'm pretty sure that's all they meant.

[Sapphic]

That's not what they said, at all.

Games that have a well developed pvp system integrated into a primarily pve game tend to have access to testing and player experiments. For instance, if you could duel in FF ARR baselines for all kinds of things could be researched, developed, and experimented with.

I'm pretty sure that's all they meant.

For PvP and PvE to work flawlessly it needs to be built from the ground with that in mind, balance the classes against each other in PvP then balance the mobs to the players. Also the greater variety in builds etc makes it more difficult to maintain balance due to the nicreased number of variables.

I think what you mean to say is that FFXIV is over designed and forces every job to fit into a role and to be in demand. FFXI on the other hand left most of its challenges up to the player and emergent gameplay. FFXIV would definitely benefit from allowing players to be more creative with jobs center combat challenges around that rather than orange circles and tank swapping.

That "emergent gameplay" you speak of was players finding optimum party set up for certain content and everyone else following along with it.