Jobs: unconnected and now feeling flat

[DrWho2010]

Having bonuses attached to traits or levelling up other classes would make those things "required" for end-game. Unless you're at least higher mid-core to hardcore, this would exclude a lot of people and make people resent levelling other jobs they don't want/like to play just to be accepted into end-game activities.

[Malkria]

Having bonuses attached to traits or levelling up other classes would make those things "required" for end-game. Unless you're at least higher mid-core to hardcore, this would exclude a lot of people and make people resent levelling other jobs they don't want/like to play just to be accepted into end-game activities.

Yes and no, first it would depend on how much you could depend on the trait. Second, it also would depend on how many viable options there are. Take the jobs themselves, while sure there is a ranking even end game largely is 'play what you want' when it comes to viability between the different healers, dps, and tanks right? After all I have yet to be turned down simply because I main an AST as a healer, and that said I leveled all three healers BECAUSE of the fact I main a healer and sometimes I want a little variety, but in the end all are perfectly viable choices.

But if you look at role actions there is a whole different story. When is the new cleric stance going to beat out any of what I see as 'needed' role actions (esuna, protect, swiftcast, largesse, and lucid dreaming)? Who uses break? If the point of the role actions was to give some variety to builds...it failed. The point of having a large pool of crazy passives that all look good...woudl be to avoid the issue you are worried about. If you have a huge pool of crazy procs that bring some benefit at worst to the class they come from then not only does it promote and reward playing more classes but it makes establishing a meta that much harder. Much like how while all the jobs might be ranked by and large specific compositions of groups only comes into play for the cutting edge of content; and the rest of the time it would be simply to take the traits you feel would benifit you the most for whatever job from whatever you unlocked.