Yoshi-P on Character Growth

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yeah, I agree as well. He will try to implement it..and it will probably not work as some imagine. If it was up to me I would like to see a balance like 1.x had. Some horizontal and some vertical. It was a perfect balance and I was able to beat and clear all content with each job. It was when he put in the ilvl that he screwed up any chance they had at putting back to when it was good.

We could choose from a few pieces of gear..and got a lot of stats and options to meld them and in the end there was never "one way" to do something, there was many. My ways of defeating Garuda with every job were just as efficient as those who would try to class stack ^^

1.x didn't really have much gear to choose from tbf. You had AF, 1 set of crafted gear, and darklight at endgame. and to get crafted required millions and luck, and darklight required crafted gear, and the right jobs leveled so people would take you.

If you didn't have the crafted gear or darklight, no one would take you into the garuda fight. I never was able to complete it thanks to that, tho I was able to down moogle and Nael normal before the server save went into effect.

1.x was even more exclusive as to who got to do fights than 2.x+ was, and I'd hate to go back to that.