Job Personalization: Can I Have It?

[Gilthas]

Reasonable!? Then why the hell am i pidgeonholed behind stat caps and endless waves of token gear? Why does crafting get less enjoyable time and again?!

Apples and oranges.

I hate what they have done to gathering and crafting, but that has nothing to do with adding stat/ability customization to FFXIV.

I played FFXI for 4 years. And I also didn't leave because of the job system. In addition, FFXI's balance problems also really didn't have much to do with the merit system, because the "options" we had there were mostly irrelevant.

My posts have been specifically directed against posters claiming that balance only matters to raiders, which is a blatant lie. FFXIV doesn't have perfect balance at the moment, but its leagues ahead of anything that FFXI ever had. The system people are advocating for here will either be irrelevant (and basically not what they want) or make the game that much harder to balance. I'd rather see SE adding new jobs to the game.

And it isn't insanity to think this shouldn't be all that the game ever is.

And it also isn't insanity for people to not like the stuff you want. Stop pretending that it is.