Really starting to get discouraged from playing.

[SakuraMidori]

it makes you a Jack-of-all-trades

That's the point right? if your really trying to get all your jobs to 60 your never going to be a master your always going to be a Jack-of-all-trades. Now if you stick two 3 or so classes then you will prob master them and gear them better {that's why i only pic jobs i like} also this game never really makes you have a need to be top gear unless your doing a hard core boss ex fight or something like Alexander savage. But you can skip stuff like them and still gear up nicely. This game never makes you play hard core or soft but rather lets you pick how you want to play this was an expansion right? not a new game

[Ken_8O]

This is an old complaint that's been around since the very first tomes. Please don't "WoW" up FFXIV.

[Ryel]

Please don't "WoW" up FFXIV.

You mean like Yoshida specifically mentioned they did by design choice when making ARR?

[odintius]

Honestly, I've been wanting something done with the materia system for awhile know myself, such a waste of a opportunity. I say when the next request for live letter question's comes people should be asking allot about it and up voted as much as possible making it stand out more to show there is indeed a interest in a change for this particular system IMO.

[BigTough]

I've been playing for well over a year... and I don't think I'll be renewing my sub again. IF this next patch doesn't do something about this weekly cap and making us grind the same two dungeons every day for 3-4 months I'm done... people are botting imperial for mgp as well because there is NO excitement in playing TT for hours on end for weeks/months at a time. Also, there isn't much of a reason for Bismark EX.. clear once and never have to go back.

There needs to be more reasons for heading back into previous dungeons for weekly rewards/roulettes and that weekly reward thing, REALLY needs to be increased significantly.

Law is basically pointless, equip your secondary with Alex gear instead. SE trying to keep Law alive with a weekly Alex cap, so stupid... it should be daily rewards, not weekly.

[BigTough]

I don't even want to level crafters or gatherers anymore until I know something is going to get done about everything else first. People on the Main FB page complaining about the same stuff too so I'm not the only one. There seems to be a lot of content in this game that is really going to waste.

[Pesh]

Open World content
We need something to hook us instead of playing the entire game in a queue.

Stat System and Lack of player customization
They have limited players in their options. There is always one best set of gear, rotation and way to play a job.

FFXI gave you subjobs, merit points, job points and gear that you could augment.

Invalidation of content.

Content is not relevant for long enough in FFXIV. Every other patch is basically a filler patch. There is no reason to run the EX fights when a month later an easier to obtain and better weapon is released via Esoterics.

XI wasn't great for the events, it was great because it gave you a world to explore with a character that you personalized and called your own. This is something that XIV needs: it needs to put some choice back into the player's hands.

This game has some amazing potential, but I feel the Dev group has gotten predictable with providing us the same thing patch after patch.

[Iromi]

That's the point right?

That is the point but it doesn't seem to quite work that way....

In the Armoury System, changing your adventuring style—or class—is as simple as changing what you hold in your hand.

Each class is capable of performing unique actions which are learned as you gain experience and your level rises. Furthermore, achieving a certain level of mastery in multiple classes will unlock jobs, which feature even greater specialization.

Classes are suited to those who desire versatility, as they allow the use of actions that belong to other disciplines. In contrast, jobs grant access to exclusive actions and are ideal for situations that demand well-defined roles. Which fighting style you adopt is entirely up to you.

As quoted via the lodestone. Now, if I bring anything other then my geared up SMN to a primal EX, or alexander...people ask me wtf am I doing, bringing a gimp job vs a well geared one. Why anyone would do that in any situation is beyond me. There is no doubt about it, the tome system and weekly lockouts contradict the bejeebus outta the armory system.

In 1.23 it made sense...you could play any job efficiently in any situation, even if one had better gear it didn't matter too much, only melds and such made a huge difference, but I found myself able to gear multiple jobs easily and play them all quite efficiently without causing a problem.

[Ashkendor]

As quoted via the lodestone. Now, if I bring anything other then my geared up SMN to a primal EX, or alexander...people ask me wtf am I doing, bringing a gimp job vs a well geared one. Why anyone would do that in any situation is beyond me. There is no doubt about it, the tome system and weekly lockouts contradict the bejeebus outta the armory system.

I don't see why it should matter to people what job you bring to EX primals and Alexander as long as it's capable of doing the content. There's something to be said for variety. My PLD is my best geared job at i196, but I don't always want to play PLD. When I do Alex normal, I frequently take my DRK (i189) for tank credits. Then there's times I don't want to tank or that people that only have tank (or want to tank) go with us, so I'll end up on SCH/AST at i186 or even BRD/BLM at i180. Nobody complains because all of them are more than sufficient for the content we're engaging. Unless your "gimp jobs" are wearing the i160 gear from the Expert dungeons and barely scraping by on item level by wearing the wrong accessories, they really have nothing to complain about.

If you're talking about Alexander Savage, then yeah of course you should be trying to take your best-geared job.

[Iromi]

I don't see why it should matter to people what job you bring to EX primals and Alexander as long as it's capable of doing the content.

Well, I suppose it is because bringing anything else other then your best geared would be insufficient. It's like why use something less then the best you have to offer? I know one can say, well to have fun..of course Well for me it isn't fun to be less then my best for my group of people I am playing with...they deserve the very best out of me and I would expect the same from them. Not everyone thinks like that of course...

Now, if it ilvl gap wasn't big...okay, by all means bring a diff job...but with how the current lockout system is..it makes it very difficult to gear up all the jobs equally. I was expecting them to fix that in the expansion but here we are...