I think I want subjobs more than I want job balance.

[Dzian]

Can't you throw that on XI too though? Just in a different way.

XI is too cookie cutter, you just find an enemies elemental weakness and spam that spell. Very boring.

If melee, you just sit there and auto attack for hours until you can use a skill. Yay, engaging...

While the XI system is definitely on the slow side. I actually prefer the idea of auto attacks building up TP to unleash skills. Or even combos like the 1.2 battle system had.

Yes you press less buttons but they feel more impactful and weighty... So much more satisfying than the way XIV works where its basically just mash buttons for what feels like a glorified auto attack..

In XI you could quite often obliterate a "Decent Challenge" mob with a single weapon skill if you stocked up your TP it felt powerful,

In XIV. It takes half or even a dozen skills to drop whats referred to as a "trash" mob... That's how weak your skills feel when it takes so many to kill a piece of "trash"..

Still wish they'd kept the 1.23 battle system. Maybe upped the pace a touch but it was so much more engaging than the current one. Especially with things like the incapacitation system.