[dev 1032] What's wrong with job/subjob again?

[Dreamer]

The thing is people think FFXIV is great because you aren't "pigeon holed" into a role, but that is because the game is still young, FFXI was the same when it came out people used lots of different sub jobs. Once the game matures people will expect you to have certain abilities and if you don't you will be gimp, there is no avoiding that it will happen. Only thing is, that in FFXIV it will be 10x worse for you because instead of having to level that one job half way to have the sub job of choice you will have to level lots of classes to cap maybe just to get those select few abilities that everyone will expect you to have.

Not everyone and their linkshell demands the most optimum build. Some of us build on a theme or just to try something different. For example, in City of Heroes, my favorite build was a Storm/Energy defender. Complete and utter chaos on the battlefield. Not efficient by any means, but crazy fun to play. In each of my builds in FFXIV, I generally pull abilities from a minimum of three classes. However, there are times when I'll just use abilities from only the main class. The flexibility is there so that we can use it.

[AlexiaKidd]

Not everyone and their linkshell demands the most optimum build. Some of us build on a theme or just to try something different. For example, in City of Heroes, my favorite build was a Storm/Energy defender. Complete and utter chaos on the battlefield. Not efficient by any means, but crazy fun to play. In each of my builds in FFXIV, I generally pull abilities from a minimum of three classes. However, there are times when I'll just use abilities from only the main class. The flexibility is there so that we can use it.

And you couldn't do that with the Job/Sub Job system in FFXI?????? Like I said in FFXI the system allows you to play around but keep balance and defined roles without things getting out of hand, in FFXIV they have to water down all the skills and abilities because you could cross class all the abilities and come up with a super class if they were actually effective.