Quote Originally Posted by Mokkis View Post
While I agree with what people say about cookie cutter builds always being dominant, there's also another part to "skill trees", and that's choosing what role your job will be.
If you were a PLD in WoW and met another PLD, that didn't automaticly make you both tanks. One could be a healer, one could be a DD and one could be a tank.

Here it's more like you meet another PLD, and that's all he can be, a tank. He can't be anything else.

But then again, in FFXIV you can lvl all the jobs on one character, but the jobs are still only playable as their designed role.
Well yes a PLD role is to tank, but if you don't want to tank and heal, you can change your class and become a DPS or Heals just as easily as you could if you played WoW. The biggest difference is that you can choose any class to dps or heal with here as long as you leveled up the class. Which is much better than only have 2-3 options like WoW did on only one character.