Quote Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor View Post
Everquest 2 had a system like that. It is pretty much the same game system as FFXIV. Its a Hotbar based MMO. FFXIV just improved upon what Everquest did. World of Warcraft took what Everquest did and made it more casual.

The Mentoring system was actually pretty brilliant until they added blue stats. So what, 5 years after it was developed?
EQ2 added the system several years after development, it was not around for their first 2 expansions, which means it took them several years (and noticing other games doing it) to get it right. They chose their version as their level scaling version because level discrepancies were becoming a problem. It's also one of the only games I know of where you can choose to mentor YOURSELF to do old content for that reason.
And using WoW is not a proper comparison for basically anything since they've revamped nearly every aspect of their game at least once. Sometimes three or more times. They've revamped their talent system FIVE TIMES.

And at no time did any of these games already have a system in place. FFXIV has a system in place. Developing a new system would be a waste of time and resources.