Quote Originally Posted by Shaddai View Post
Unequip your soul crystal and do a dungeon run please. You guys are high and drunk. No massive change after lvl 30 is complete BS. Sorry I severely disagree with you. If this is how majority of players think then I'm done posting in general.
I said it does not change how the paladin plays. Affecting their performance is something else and you;d be a damned fool to not use your job abilities. But my point is that those job abilities are not what makes gives that job their full identity.


If I have my soul crystal as a paladin, I will do my 1-2-3 combo ending with rage of halone.
If I dont have my soul crystal and go as a gladiator, I will do my 1-2-3 combo, ending with rage of halone.

If I have a soul crystal as a monk, I will alternate dragon kick and bootshine after every other demolish, snap punch or rockbreaker.
If I don't have a soul crystal and go as a pugilist, I'll just do bootshine after every demolish, snap punch and rockbreaker.

As a Blackmage, I'll get Flare and enochian which requires management of astral fire and umbral ice.
As a Thmeruegmeuwargh, I'll still be managing astral fire and umbral ice with less skills attached to it.

I'm speaking from a gameplay perspective and not performance. You can't expect to slap on 10 abiltties and hope that it'll diverse two jobs that are branching from one job, unless they are exclusively using those 10 abilties for their intended role (which is the case of healers). Otherwise, it'll be complete hell trying to balance between branching jobs that are both dps or it branches off a tank.