Why refusing customization is a fallacy

[Aeyis]

Go play Dark Souls or something. I don't need stupid insta-kill mechanics just to clear a fight. Fighting a Boss 3247683479349 times just for gear and having one little mistake cost you the fight for everyone is stupid. That's not Difficulty at all. 2x Damage and 2x HP is not difficulty. It's a luck base mechanic that should only be in single player games. Wiping because of someone's shenanigans is not difficulty but an annoyance that's isn't needed when you just want to clear a fight, get drops and move on.

Making a mistake, or it being entirely luck based. Which is it? Those two are polar opposite.
In addition, FFXIV has many instant kill mechanics.


I do not understand your argument, what are you trying to say?
That you would like to go into a dungeon or raid and oneshot it while watching the television?


If that is your argument, then it only reinforces my observation.
Which I'll mention again:

MMOs have become more bland, less interesting; because the audience they are intended for have no interest in challenge. They have no interest in something they have to but time or effort into figuring out.

[Delily]

How is Alex Savage going for you? Plus your "current generation" claim is rather old and tired.

[FallenArisen0990]

Text.

Yea, in content where it should be, in optional content. We live in a new age my friend. As fun as XIV can be, I do like to play other things while others have limited time to play. Difficulty for all current content is exactly where it should be.

[justinjarjar]

You can just surf the net, learn what is the "best" skill tree, and follow it, no questions asked.
No headache guaranted.

Would rather not see it at all and get new jobs. Just trying to give you a reason most people do not want it. You seem pretty outnumbered.

[MythToken]

I still think adding only visual customizatations to our skills would be the way to go. That way there is no balance issue, and everyone can feel unique.

[odintius]

If treated like crafting were it playing catch up I can see it work that way new content would be locked for customization builds whatever that entails. The older content is unlocked after newer content is released or couple patch afterwards. We already have rules in duty finder now were we can enter uncapped and do older content already breaking the balance anyways, can have rules set in place were new content keeps it balance currently or players first time running content it locked until you've completed to unlock it or not. /shrug just my opinion at least giving an option how to treat it I'm sure people will disagree with method of course

[Parawill]

The only actual customization in this game is through the illusion of materia melding (Zodiac Weapon and crafted gear), glamour and party composition. You have your pseudo-customization with your cross-class skills, but most jobs ignore the few skills they get because they're beyond useless (Physick & Ruin in White Mage is dumb).

Adding in the suggested customization would be completely foreign to this system, especially since party composition is the only real customization in this game. While it would be fun to specialize in a certain elements as a Black Mage, taking a glance at other games and classes you come to realize that not only would Square Enix have to completely redesign all classes and implement an entire new system to do this, they would also have to create so many new skills and different playstyles per class that you'd being to wonder why they're changing how FFXIV works and not just make a FFXVI. And besides, what would an Ice Mage do over a Fire Mage? Slows? Vulnerability? How about Thunder Mages? Stuns? Silences? While these myriad of debuffs may seem fun, you can already tell which classes will be preferred over the other, considering ailments aside from damage reduction (Storm's Path, Virus, Disable,etc.), vulnerability debuffs (Trick Attack, Foe's Requiem) will be preferred over others as most other debuffs are either useless in most situations.

In addition to this, you'd have to recreate encounters (Primals, Coil, Alex.) to accommodate Yoshi P's vision have making every class viable for all content. What this idea is suggesting not only backtracks the game itself but requires more effort than I believe some can comprehend.

On a side note, just because you can doesn't mean you should.
(Ignore text in picture. Refer to being able to put 6 Magikarps in your party).

[justinjarjar]

Still have yet to explain why your want for it is greater than me not wanting it.

[Reynhart]

Still have yet to explain why your want for it is greater than me not wanting it.

Do multiple specs prevent you from sticking to what most people will blindly believe to be the "best" (Quotation mark again, just to be sure) spec ?
No

So, you can continue to play the job like you want, but I'd be able to experiment some more without affecting yout playstyle in any way.

[Delily]

Do multiple specs prevent you from sticking to what most people will blindly believe to be the "best" (Quotation mark again, just to be sure) spec ?
No

So, you can continue to play the job like you want, but I'd be able to experiment some more without affecting yout playstyle in any way.

That's a fine desire, it's just not going to happen in this game. What are hoping to achieve with this post? You will not convince the design team to redesign the game to support specializations, so, as far as I can tell, this is just peeing into the wind. Just because you have an opinion does not mean you should share it when sharing it will have no realistic outcome.