Job Personalization: Can I Have It?

[Bishop81]

A lot of people play FF14 to get away from how traditional MMOs handle classes and specs and skill trees.

Define "traditional MMO".

The only definition of "traditional MMO" relevant today is "WoW style MMO".

Yes, you are right, I did started playing FFXIV to get away from the "traditional MMO". The "traditional MMO" of fixed classes with no real free form customization because it would impact "raid balance".

Where you don't choose your gear to fit your specific needs, e.g. stack TP to a specific number to allow you to chain the skills you have chosen. Instead you just pick the gear with the biggest numbers in your predetermined "prefered" stat.

Where you have limited to no choice in your skill loadout. Where every "choice" presented to you has been curated such as to maintain the precious raid balance. Where you either "git gud" or reroll.

I'm tired of "living in a box" where the developers lead me around by the nose, telling me what to do, when to do it and even HOW to do it - every rotation you can put together with the semi-fixed skill loadout has been tested extensively by the developers to ensure it stays "within parameters"; everything that is "out of specifications" is "fixed", e.g. Remember when BLMs exploited MP regen tick timing to double Flare? "Fixed".

Where everything I do, I do only because the developers allowed it.

PS: If I want to play such a game, I would just go back to playing WoW.