Quote Originally Posted by Kimahri View Post
To this one.....Hahaha! I love it!

Now. To LillithaFenimore. That's great that you loved Elder Scrolls. This is not a one-player RPG, however. This is a MMORPG. What works for the RPG's based off a single person's experience should not be tried in an MMO. If everyone was gained access to all abilities then down the line you wouldn't be as unique as the other person because he'd have the same setup as you. If you had played XI then you would know what I'm talking about.

Like most MMO games, people work together to accomplish a goal. As stated above, if you'd played XI you would know what I'm going to say next. I don't care how freely you think this game is, it'll come down to you having to pick certain abilities rather than the one's you want if you want anything in the end. Let's use the endgame scene of FFXI's Sky. Simple, easy, yet still you had to use certain sub jobs on the job you used. You never seen a war/whm, why? Because people of the norm rejected your reality of fun. It was a pointless setup to help others.

Point is that people really don't care what you want to use. In the end it'll come down to what you NEED to use rather than what you WANT to use. This current system doesn't help people who want to use a certain class to be unique from the other classes. You'll probably see Gladiator, in the end, as the number one DoW class with the same exact abilities as your own. At least in FFXI when I chose Samurai, I was completely different from the other jobs.......Even though there were a couple other people with Samurai in the game, they weren't exactly like me. Our gear was different, our merits were alligned to other traits, and we used different systems of strategy.

This is not "Freedom" like many of you think. True freedom of choosing a class was from FFXI's approach. I don't want to be a Red Mage, so why do I have to level it to obtain those abilities for you and your endgame? Kiss my rosey red cheeks, I want to do what I want to do. Not do it as you.
Well the thing is I don't seem to be alone in the way I feel about the currect system of picking and chosing abilities. There seem to be many who feel the same as I do or some sort of varient of my feelings toward the armory system. Many people do play this game for FUN, whatever that definition is to that person. It seems like this game is offering that for many people, including myself.