Quote Originally Posted by kukurumei View Post
So we can have a cheat character in minutes? Or to devalue the stat system more for the sake of balance.

"Listen up people we're going to face a boss with a lot of magic attack next, so max out your mdef stats now"

There's a reason why you couldn't completely redo your stats in a matter of moments. Of course the fact that you could redo your stats in the first place had to be balanced to the point where stats matter very little with caps and forumlas.
Hi kukurumei,

How is having a system to change your class's stats more easily a "cheat character"?

I think we have to ask Square-Enix and the FF XIV Team what their vision of "Final Fantasy XIV" is. I understand your sentiment of wanting to be devoted to 1 class (or take longer to switch classes), but I'd say that was valid if this was Final Fantasy XI during Years 1 - 3 or so (where it took most people 1/2 a Year to a *Year* or more) to reach Level 75. You were devoted to a specific job and it took a long time to reach Max Level.

In FF XIV, it took 1 player 3 WEEKS to reach Max Rank 50 (the Japanese Archer player), and with the new faster SP patch recently, people are easily getting to Rank 50 much faster than before.

I got Rank 50 in both of my mage classes months ago. So what now? I'm stuck playing a maxxed out Mage class with NO End Game Content?

The way that FF XIV seems to be going (sort of) is like a Final Fantasy V or Final Fantasy Tactics with lots of different "Jobs" at your disposal. People reach Max Level too fast in this game. So the "style" of this game seems to lend itself to be more like a "try out lots of different Jobs (Classes) and switch around"-style, than a traditional "dedicate yourself to 1 Class for years"-style of RPG.

Right now, it's a complete pain and nightmare to try and switch between your Max Rank Class and something different. If people are curious why this is a problem, for the limited "end game content" we have now (NMs, Faction NMs), imagine trying to participate in these events one day, and then the next day, you try to do Guildleves with a new Class you want to experiment on (e.g., from Pugilist (Max Rank) to Conjurer). And then the 3rd day, you're back to fighting NMs again.

You can't do it unless you're super diligent, staying up for Hours, waiting for "Reassign Points" Button to highlight again, so you can Reassign more points, and take ~10 - 12 hours to move all your stat points around. It's inconvenient, not fun, and it's counterintuitive to the style of game FF XIV is right now (easy to reach Rank 50, nothing to do at max Rank).

Again, if the idea was to slowly build your 1 Class and devote yourself to it (like FF XI early years), that's understandable, but that's not what FF XIV is.