The Illusion of Choice

[Kaurie]

Some people don't seem to understand.. the Job IS the equivalent of a talent tree build.

You roll 'tank'. But you want to do a lot of dps, at the sacrifice of defense. You choose the WAR build. You want lots of defense at a cost of dps? PLD. A balance/hybrid between the two? DRK build.

It really couldn't be more obvious that what you 'want'... already exists, and has existed since patch 1.18...

Open your eyes a little and look at the FFXIV job system from a different angle.

This fails to occupy the same umbrella for a number of reasons.

• Spec'd jobs usually share skills that work in various ways upon spec
• In FFXIV you can only gear one job to max at a time, which limits you from swapping builds for different encounters
• Swapping jobs does not give you any sort of customization, skill building or theorycrafting.

Fundamentally, they are different things, and appease different people.

Interestingly, it is actually easier to have multiple classes at max level in raiding in other games, due to the fact that you are not locked in gear per class. In this game, you're encouraged to play everything on one character, which then caps your ability to gear multiple jobs. So, in addition to other games providing more customization within each class/job, they also enable you to play more than one job more easily.