Job Personalization: Can I Have It?

[Erepio]

You want concrete? Fine.

The existing Class system is perfectly adequate for my purposes.
Bar Classes from raids - they already practically are, so no change there.
Add Class-only skills via the likes for "skill books" (earned via quests, mob drops, seals, ... etc.) that may or may not be restricted to specific classes. These skills can counter abilities/traits/mechanics of open world monsters (spawned on-demand or free roaming).
Add Class-only gear that can help negate specific monster attacks (e.g. Blunt Resistance, which is already in-game but not used), and/or boost specific player abilities (e.g. longer sprint duration)
You can kill any monster with the right cross-Class skills and gear solo but it would be easier with a friend or 2. A randomly stranger could help you out (and maybe get an additional drop for himself; i.e. it has no impact on the reward you get) without feel obligated to perform to a specific standard - remember he/she will just be doing you a favor.

It's not really my job to design the game for SE. So take this as you will

yeah let them use the system they effectively are removing from the game lol, so ur plan is to exclude the 3 new jobs (and basicly every new job from now on) from open world content and a big part of "character progression"?

not to mention existing jobs like scholar will also get screwed over since the class is a dps while their job is healer

the balancing of the new skills will also be a nightmare and u will have ppl wanting you to have specific skills in order to let you in parties that go up against this new mobs you talk about


you make it sound like balancing is done for raiders and the "toxicity" is only in raids, guess what its not, ppl will want you to be in a specific set up, be it gear or skills, even in open world just look at FFXI..heck most of the time, from experience, the "hardcore" raiders are the laid back ppl and the ones wanting u to be in laughable high ilvl are the ppl the are plain bad or ignorant