Quote Originally Posted by Megguido View Post
Getting rid of low level abilities as you level up is a terrible and lazy design. The kit is supposed to get more and more complex as you grow, not just replaced by better tools.

Also, DRK for example does not abandon any ability as they level up.
If you're going to reply to a comment why not reply to the entire thing instead of cherry picking whichever little point you can pretend to argue.

Every game I've ever played online and even the Maniline ffs and most learned ability based games has moves that you use while leveling and then abandon. It's a solid formula not lazy. It adds to feeling more powerful, even in other types of games when you get a bigger gun, you drop the pistol or club.

As for drk, that's like comparing apples to anchovies. Drk was one of the first jobs to skip not only class leveling but started at 30, when cap was 60. The origin coding of this game was level 1 class to 30 and another to 15 to get a job, so you had a large variety of skills, they later reduced that to one class to 30 to get job stone but ultimately you were still leveling two classes at once as you could unequp the stone and level let's say. . Thm to 60 if you wanted for whatever reason, so you kept your class skills and added job abilities. Drk bypassed this entirely, everything you learned was strictly for drk and drk alone. Why do you think none of these jobs that skip classes start at 1? So you're comparing the only class that leveled 3 aspects (arc,smn,sch) to a single tree drk.

The point of arc Is at 30 it split either going healer or dps, a fact which everyone is fine with as an explanation why smn was the only dps with a raise. But ultimately smn choose to take a different path than one who walked to become a sch, therfore they didn't decide to continue studying healing magics. Their knowledge of healing is exactly left at the point they chose to abandon healing and chose to pursue the plague arts.

If you start learning to ride a bike but never take off training wheels, then decide to start driving a car, does that mean you can go back to that same bike and suddenly become a bmx star?