Homogenization and Job Identity - Are they mutually exclusive?

[Dzian]

The age of a system has nothing to do with it's value. There are things we love in video games that are approaching 40 years old. Innovation is not automatically good, often times it ends up terrible or worse off. The core mechanics of ff14 arn't what are hurting it's jobs, it's a lack of creativity in implementing those jobs that is.

The creativity is restricted by the stupid concept that everything has to be perfectly balanced and perfectly viable for every piece of content. Pair that with duty finder and you put a lot of limits on what you can do with jobs.

You will never see for example an evasion tank. Nor will you see a glass cannon dps job. Or even an aoe king that's weak at single target damage. You will never see content that require crowd control of any real form. Balance is the reason sleep has never been utilised in oven for example. The second you require mobs to be slept you tilt the scales in favour of blm for example which breaks the balance. However you could have a fight where magic damage isn't effective and balance the job that way.

Duty finder also because well what happened with tanks basically. Get 2 p aladins in your party amazing defence but good luck clearing those dps checks. 2 wins raw healing power but no support or utility same problem. Theres no flexibility in party composition. Taking a whm for example doesnt mean you only need one healer because there so powerful. But sch and ast you might need 2 but they offer more deeps.

The very design of the game places a lot of limits on there creativity and options.

Which goes to back to my earlier post and tanks.

Paladin used to be the ultra defence tank. Warrior used to be the ultra offence tank. Now though they're exactly the same. Only the weapon is different