The Pigeonhole

[Nahara]

Stop talking nonsense please. Conjurer as a damage dealer? Because Raging Strikes and Blood for Blood will turn them into
a viable damage dealer? Thanks for the offer but I'll have to pass.

Lancer as a tank? Skull Sunder and Savage Blade will turn them into a viable tank? Thanks for the offer but I'll have to pass.

In low-level dungeons, I've main healed on Arcanist and tanked on Pugilist. It worked but it was nowhere near as effective as just sticking to your given role, and that's the point. Right now, it's so much more effective to just stick to your role than to try and branch out into some other role and Jobs only emphasize this by making you even better in your given role. This won't always be the case, though, as Yoshi-P apparently plans to implement a "Hybrid" role into the game at some point; how that eventually works out (if it even comes out in the first place) is still up in the air.

[indira]

armory was way better in 1.0, now i dont see why they still have it.

[Sphinxy]

You are pigeonholed on your main. End of story. Class uniqueness was a huge thread in beta. Everybody became everyone else just like it was said in beta. Same rotation, same subs. There was so many white knights posting that there are sub abilities that you can switch out. HAHAHAHA. Congrats knights you got what you wanted.

[Atheena]

FFXIV is still a baby. The development team has to work to expand the game, at the moment the game is still stretching it's legs, it's not old enough to think of great things. It's still learning to crawl.

Over 3 years and it's still crawling! There was no expansion to the Game since only shrinkage! 3 years we have nothing but a broken mess and no i don't mean by raiding content. I mean everything to the game like 3 rehashed Primal Fights (realy with all of the past FF summons this will make it simple to make quick-uninteresting content) or the Butchered PvP!

[Noata]

Over 3 years and it's still crawling! There was no expansion to the Game since only shrinkage! 3 years we have nothing but a broken mess and no i don't mean by raiding content. I mean everything to the game like 3 rehashed Primal Fights (realy with all of the past FF summons this will make it simple to make quick-uninteresting content) or the Butchered PvP!

Uh huh, ARR is 3 years old! oh wait... they remade the game and its about to be 6 months old... oh noes no expansion six months QQ...

I get it you guys want to complain. Try not to get too delusional. like complaining about a lack of an expansion after less then 6 months.

realistically... you all know their will be changes... like every other mmo.

[tOnni3]

even there are 1000 skill diversity, but ppl will use follow the best set one.
see DiabloIII for example.

[Neralyte]

The real issue is the community, not the developers. This happens with nearly every game without static skill sets, eventually the math wizards of the community work out the "best" variation and anyone who does not choose this is considered sub-par. They could tack on varying skills trees and hundreds of abilities, however each of these will need to be balanced so as not to provide a significant advantage to any class.

The problem with your analysis of the situation is that there is no math needed to get the "best" variation, because there simple is no variation to begin with. Nor is my argument in favour of tacking on hundreds of abilities for cross class, my argument is quite plainly that jobs in their current state give our roles focus (something I'm all for) but the addition of cross class skills as a way to diversify simply doesn't exist, nor does it enhance our roles.

I mean everything to the game like 3 rehashed Primal Fights (realy with all of the past FF summons this will make it simple to make quick-uninteresting content) or the Butchered PvP!

You have a thread devoted to moaning about rehashed content already, please don't bring it here.