Adding New Skills for all Classes.

[Zantetsuken]

I'm sure over the course of the next few years we are going to see many new classes and jobs, level cap raises, and more to come in the skills department.

I don't think we will see much what people are really asking for.

Look at the usefulness of stun/silence/sleep in the current endgame.

The developers don't want any abilities that would give any Job an advantage over another in any content (Once it was known that Titan-Egi could tank Ramuh EX, the fight was patched in mere hours.). It's why there is no elemental wheel or proper support jobs in the game.

Unless this design philosophy changes, all new abilities (including those of new Classes/Jobs) will be either:

A) DPS/HEALING/TANKING rotation add-ons -- with high priority given to strict role parity in all situations

-or-

B) Interesting skills that are only usable on trash mobs.

It's my biggest gripe with ARR. The spectacle is the only thing that can change in future updates - beneath the visual trimmings, the game won't ever really grow or evolve. Every patch will consist of iLvl+10, new boss gimmicks and peripheral trinkets (housing, minions, mounts, etc)

Job skills are a clear example of Complexity without Depth.
Character/Gear Progression in ARR is just naked POWER CREEP (further exacerbated by content nerf each patch)

I would never consider this a sustainable model for a game, but perhaps they feel that FF fans want story most of all, and by drip-feeding the story (and iLvl +10) to players as they run the treadmill, they can keep the subs coming in. *That is, until players realize they can skip all this and watch the whole story on YouTube for free.

I do have a lot of respect for the talent of the developers, but not for the way they modeled the game. Perhaps it was the only way Yoshi-P could get ARR out the door in a resonable time and budget... But even now, I don't see much changing.