Jobs you feel yoshi and team got wrong

[Lemuria]

To address the elemental wheel topic posted a page ago; the removal of the wheel wasn't to "dumb it down", but to make the BLM and CNJ/WHM not be weak or OP in specific fights. If anything, having the wheel dumbs things down anyway since you can just find the weak element and spam the proper spell till the bad guys fall down.

And that's dumber than having the SAME skill rotation for every single fight? It's not like you can even mix things up because there aren't even any spells to mix things up with. What they've done as a result is turn every class into a dull grey area with no real identity of its own, borrowing a little taster of everyone else's in order to make it 'accessible'.

Skills which were element based had advantages and disadvantages. It was never a catch-all solution, and some of the more creative bosses mixed up their elements during combat, forcing you to adapt on the fly. Some even absorbed various elements and used them for their own ends. It took away a huge portion of the game in my opinion, and a key element of gameplay which has been a staple since the NES days.

Really, it was a necessary evil to keep things balanced as much as possible (and I, for one, gladly take it).

Odd how FFXI never had these issues... and yes, people are always going to compare ARR to FFXI since they're the only Final Fantasy MMO's in existence.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Yes the elemental rock paper scissors have existed since day 1, but that was all single player games where balance doesn't matter as much, so you could get away with a lot of lulz worthy set ups. In an MMO theme, you can bet your butt that Square will slap everything with the balancing stick so people don't have it easy and blaze through content. You say that a boss that can change its elemental weakness adds strategy, but cynical me sees it as forcing a new rotation to keep up the MAD DEEPS. Even more so since every boss in this game runs on a script, so all anyone would be doing is playing simon says with a new board at each percentage threshold. We already seen what happened when content gets harder and forces people to think beyond rotations (thanks Steps of Faith!), so I won't count on elemental wheels coming back or at least coming back in the way people remembered it.

[Averax]

Summoner for being the summoning class that does not at all feel summony relative to other FF games.

Personally, Dissidia 012's Yuna was my favorite incarnation of a summoner anywhere ever.

[Galaktica]

Ifrit does more damage than Garuda actually. Problem is that Ifrit is a close-range combat type, which makes him prune to more damage while Garuda can DPS anywhere from afar. Think Ifrit like a melee that can't dodge stuff at all. Also switching targets creates downtime.

Aaah, okay, gracias amigo. Looks you learn somethin new everyday afterall

[myahele]

DRK, since it seems like they wont be using their health to boosts their attacks. Counter intuitive for a tank role.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I thought the object of tanks was to take aggro and survive as long as possible? I don't think doing large pulls AND using an HP sacrificing skill would mix well together and you can forget doing speed runs with that.

[Talia_Hailwind]

No Hate for white mage?

HUZZAH!

[thunderbreak]

Summoner, Black Mage, Dragoon, and Ninja.

[VargasVermillion]

PLD - doesn't have actual healing and support spells. cross class skills barely count because the only one that's actually useful is stoneskin.

[Kidblinks]

Can people stop bitching about everything?...