Quote Originally Posted by Viritess View Post
Why have different routes if all 24 are going to go the same way? sounds like a very fancy difficulty selection window then instead of having 3 teams part ways, rejoin eachother etc. kind of like what party members do in nearly every FF to date (cept perhaps 11.)
I don't consider it to be feasible dungeon design in an MMORPG, especially considering that players have a very bad tendency to pick the "efficient" route. It was neat in FFVI where you had to split your characters into three parties to climb Kefka's Tower, but it wouldn't work in an MMO with different classes lacking that LCD that allowed it to work in VI.
I think we'd disagree here in that i'm looking at the possability of them doing something different. where as what your describing i've seen many many times before. The reason those tanks are dead weight in many games is because your locked into a single class.
Which is something I hope they do with dungeons so that encounters can be balanced around reasoinable parameters instead of parameters that would force players into having multiple jobs just for one dungeon. I'll always favor design that will encourage people to play the jobs they like at all times (or as much as possible). Allowing job/class swaps in any way goes against that.
Sorry for the quotations back, but since you put the effort to discuss my points i thought i'd do the same ^^
No need to apologize. Makes the discussion easier when the points in question are there for quick referral.