Thread: Yoshi P: Please Consider a Better Raiding System in 3.0 - Beyond Statics

Originally Posted by Alipoprocks

People keep bringing up lockouts in other games. In all of the other MMO's out there, you can only play and gear up one class per character. So in those MMO's, lockouts make sense.

But in this game we have, what, 9 jobs? With more to come. Having to pick one job to gear up and barely being able to gear anything else before next patch is very frustrating. Plus it would be more beneficial even for this necessary evil static requirement if people could gear up multiple jobs and then be able to play multiple jobs when filling a missing role (without having to work on unneccessary alts).

You havent played other mmos then have you.

Let me give you an example in WOW.

Paladin class has 3 specs.

tank - uses tank specific gear and stats.

Retribution - melee DPS, uses STR specific gear

Holy - healing spec, uses healing specific gear.

Shaman class have 3 specs.

Elemental uses caster dps specific gear

restoration uses healing specific gear

enhancement is a melee dps but uses a stat called agility as its main stat.

and many more examples.

and yet the lock out exists for it and has worked for a long time.

Even in Rift, mages can choose from dps and healing gear, you really are skipping over some important information to make your argument look good when in fact you havent gone over that major detail ive gone over.