Monstrosity: Players playing as monsters system.

[Risvertasashi]

There was an old thread which talked about this created in 2015. I decided to make a new one instead of bumping one of the last decade.

For those who do not know about Monstrosity, here is it is
https://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Category:Monstrosity
The FFXI team really did drop the ball on this system as the article above states. Despite the pouring support from the community, the FFXI team still decided to quit updating this system, despite promising & advertising more updates in the past.

I can't help but wonder if this system will make another appearance. It may be in the form of a job? Could be in the form of herding? Overall, the system was good, just poorly managed by the 11 crew.

Monstrosity was one of my favorite parts of my brief adventures trying out FF11. But while I'd like to see it a lot, I have my doubts it would work very well in FF14. In FF11, you do almost all your leveling out in the overworld. So overworld fights are harder, and it's easy to plug in something new, like monstrosity, that uses that same foundation.

FF14 just doesn't do much with combat in the overworld. Now, granted, BLU is a thing, but I don't think monstrosity would be nearly as fun with the push over mobs that you're not even trying to learn a move from. Nonetheless, if the dev team can come up with a way to make it work, and not leave it abandon's and semi-half-@$$'d like the 11 incarnation, then I would love to see it.

But if you want to see it in the form of a job... well, depending on how loosely you interpret that, BLU is already here. Still, I agree with you overall... there's a lot of potential in the system.

[Genz]

and not leave it abandon's and semi-half-@$$'d like the 11 incarnation, then I would love to see it.

FFXIV actually half-ass and abandon most of its content, though :|
FFXI was just bad timing since they decided to go in LTS mode some months after the release of monstrosity (and the decision for FFXI to shrink the devs team was maybe just FFXIV siphoning ppl from other projects, including the creator of monstrosity who is credited in HW or SB)

But yeah, the best thing FFXIV could do is playing as a boss since it's the only thing in the game with actual work ; open world is useless, including monsters. And we've learnt to limit our expectations for the devs as soon as it goes outside the regular update treadmill (I can already see our question-dodging-champion "But it's impossible to play as a boss, we'd have to re-create all the abilities for balance!!!")