Please read about Physical Levels and Removing them.

[darkstarpoet1]

me personally in hopes of us getting points for each class i just have mine set to even top to bottom for now. at phy 50 i am 84 in all stats which is way below max, but since i do every class besides cul i need points in each class. id love to make one for each individual class so i could actually take care of the problem and be the best at whatever class i want to use for that day/party.

[Spuffin]

I would not like to keep this unbalanced flexibility as it is extremely difficult to maintain themselves especially for future content. If they already said they want to change it then they have already begun work on it before they announced it.

They will be able to add a merit system end game giving this game potential end game grind purposes. Grinds shouldn't stop at level cap. Ever.

[Vix]

My main is Marauder and my secondary is Conjurer, I'm stated for Dow with High Piety. I haven't gotten any complaints about my healing.

I can see you getting away with that on healing. But try reaching your MAX damage potential on magic. Even more noticable would be if you were specc'ed as a MAge, but tried to go DoW or better yet, tank.

[Valor]

I can see you getting away with that on healing. But try reaching your MAX damage potential on magic. Even more noticable would be if you were specc'ed as a MAge, but tried to go DoW or better yet, tank.

My damage is okay, not the best but I can kill things solo if I have to. What I don't have for damage I make up for it with being able to survive.

But this wouldn't even be an issue if the stats actually did a job instead of it being mostly based on classes, then I'd have a ton of HP and more damage.

My magic Potency is at 12. Tanking, I can see that being a bit of an issue, but I know a couple of Glads with more STR than VIT who can pull it off. You just need to rank up a bit. There will always be someone better than you, but Off-tanking if you use your magic skills and buffs could be your own bonus. Stone Skin with some Stone Elemental points, Protect, Defender, etc And you are good to go. It wouldn't matter if you have low HP as long as you had enough MP to keep popping Stoneskin.

[Xor]

Now that is interesting.I wouldn't mind something like that.In fact i would welcome it.But i know the wear level 50 gear at lv 1 crowd would refuse strongly.

I have mixed feelings about the gear/rank thing in SOME cases. if you have say a rk50 mrd w/ gear and then start lvling a lnc from rk1 you still have a rk50mrd and thus wearing that gear was earned. now if your highest rank is say 20 and your wearing rk40+ gear that gear should wear out faster, and your stamina should drop like a rock. same as a caster rampaging around wearing full plate should not be able to call forth snot let alone move in a timely fashion.

i figure if you gain rk50 in a class and jump to a different class that shares the same affinity with the armor you have on you should be able to use it with say a lesser penalty then some noob that bought 5mil gil and bought the stuff to be a cool guy.

as far as weapon wear, i think that much got skipped on that last patch. pug knuckles at any level made with anything degrade very quickly, same with glad weapons. i think it has more to do with weapon speed then materials. i've yet to find a set of knucks that i don't repair every other hour grinding/farming shards/mats. as far as armor degrading cloth tends to tear faster then metal tends to bend out of shape :P and shields next to never need repair.

as far as the comment about people not buying lower lvl gear, from what i have noticed the gil cost difference between a lvl 10 piece and a lvl 40 piece seldom warrant buying the lvl 10 piece. what i mean is that there are a lot of greedy f'ers that feel that charging 60k for a hemp robe (example) when a velveteen robe is being sold for 40k (example) so then the economy itself is really to blame. i take pride in the fact that i have made 95% of the items i have ever worn/used, and more so in the fact that i can repair everything i wear/use so i dont have to wait a week hoping that someone will fix my crap. that was one of the first realizations i had when i started playing, i can either grind for hours hoping to make enough money from selling the mats or grind my arse off crafting between leve resets and make/repair what i need/use. i went with the later and am happier for it.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

in the end we should just have fun. Lets not treat ffxiv or its future endgane like "work" as it was before in ffxi. Lets just focus on our character and stop worrying about how other ppl play. Even after the changes. Thats the one thing in mmo that bugs me is ppl feel the "need" to make a game be "work", and order other players around in how to play their classes. If ppl are not the norm set up, don't worry about it. Give them a chance.
One thing that really bigged me is ppl going out of their way to insult someone for style of play. Not needed ever.

[Xor]

in the end we should just have fun. Lets not treat ffxiv or its future endgane like "work" as it was before in ffxi. Lets just focus on our character and stop worrying about how other ppl play. Even after the changes. Thats the one thing in mmo that bugs me is ppl feel the "need" to make a game be "work", and order other players around in how to play their classes. If ppl are not the norm set up, don't worry about it. Give them a chance.
One thing that really bigged me is ppl going out of their way to insult someone for style of play. Not needed ever.

*sniff* couldn't have said that any better. i have seen it in every MMO i have ever played, and like you it makes me sick. we are what we are, no more, no less. it's a game and i think some people spend so much time playing that they cant tell the difference between RL and Game. Those people generally find themselves outside my group/party as i really dont care to read/listen to it

[Zkieve]

in the end we should just have fun. Lets not treat ffxiv or its future endgane like "work" as it was before in ffxi. Lets just focus on our character and stop worrying about how other ppl play. Even after the changes. Thats the one thing in mmo that bugs me is ppl feel the "need" to make a game be "work", and order other players around in how to play their classes. If ppl are not the norm set up, don't worry about it. Give them a chance.
One thing that really bigged me is ppl going out of their way to insult someone for style of play. Not needed ever.

Then dont play with them ?Is really not that hard.Diferent type of people play the games. Is like you complain about they forcing a play style on you and you whant to force everyone to play as hybrids for the sake of you dont being told off by min/maxers.
That is not enough reason to aprove the current system. Classes needs more individuality , and the same goes to stat builds.It needs to MEAN SOMETHING, and not how it is currently.I dont care if they scrap it or not.As long as its not the mess we currently have.

[Cairdeas]

Then dont play with them ?Is really not that hard.Diferent type of people play the games. Is like you complain about they forcing a play style on you and you whant to force everyone to play as hybrids for the sake of you dont being told off by min/maxers.
That is not enough reason to aprove the current system. Classes needs more individuality , and the same goes to stat builds.It needs to MEAN SOMETHING, and not how it is currently.I dont care if they scrap it or not.As long as its not the mess we currently have.

The classes we currently have are Weapon Classes and each one is different from the others. They already said they are not scraping the Armoury system but instead augmenting it with a new system.

[LuciBlack]

I like the P.Lvl system...

What if we had a seperate P.Lvl for each class?