Quote Originally Posted by reyre View Post
Because i am actually asking a question? i want to know if you know of any MMO with good talent trees, and if so how many of them are there, so i can go look them up and see how they do it.

So much assumption by the OP. Sigh. Stop trying to assume everything, because by default you dont know if you are right.

About the balnce thing, how can that not be a goal in this game? isnt that the goal in every game?

Also straw man argument? are you serious? You yourself said that every MMO and RPG outside of this one had a talent tree and when i ask for examples of such "every" MMO i am the one making a straw man argument ....are you serious?
Hey, not really a "talent tree" but Ragnarok Online has great build variety with lots of player choices and builds created by the sheer creativity of the playerbase, completely different from this game. Some builds may be very OP, while others may only be used because they're interesting or have very specific uses, like a build focused on killing undeads or a support songs/dances focused build. Also Guild Wars 1 had an extremely wide build variety.

Really, just think about it, playing a tabletop RPG, would you prefer if everybody got a sheet that was already filled with everyone's stats and skill choices or would you prefer to fill it yourself? I don't remember any RPGs I played where there wasn't any choices to be made in regards to how I play. In pokémon you can choose your skills, even if some are bad; in FF7 you can choose your materia, even if some are bad; in FFT you can build either very OP comps or totally underpowered comps, but that's the beauty of having choices, you can tailor the experience to your liking.

Now, I'm not really defending a talent tree for FFXIV, because I don't really believe they have the competence necessary to do it.