Quote Originally Posted by Xia_Thas View Post
I never said it was about balance, I was saying WoW's Talent system is not good (providing an example why) so don't put it into FFXIV which hasn't had it and does not need it. I'm not glorifying FFXIV's balance and development as superior to WoW so if you can refrain from putting words in my mouth I'd appreciate it. You are so focused on deconstructing my statements I don't think you are actually reading them.
Except you are using balance as a excuse when FFXIV has way worse balance and is probably one of the worst balanced games in MMORPG history.

So far, your reasonings for saying the talent system is bad are:
Bad balance (moot because many games, including FFXIV has way worse balance and does not possess a talent system.)
WoW has not been doing good (moot because regardless of whether WoW was doing good or bad, it always had talents.)

Unless you can give another example or another reasoning as to why the talent system is bad and FFXIV shouldn't use it. I really don't see any valid points so far.

As for my points, I already stated numerous times:
Talents bring more diversity(statistically true)
Gives more choices( also true even if the number of choices are not high due to optimization)
Is more fun( personal preference)