Quote Originally Posted by gifthorse View Post
I'm sorry but there weren't very many viable combinations. Try getting into a party as a WAR/BLM.
Hahaha! Now this is a no shit true story.......I really did one time go into the party AS a WAR/BLM..........I ended up casting Poison and Bio to help DoT the mob and keep his attack from one shotting that Tarutaru ninja. Hahahaha! Plus it was a free warp when the party ended!

Now, seriously. Now as stated in my previous topics I'm all for a unique perspective on the class system. However, what you're saying is the complete opposite in it making the class unique. Either way you look at it, it'll always become one of two classes. DoW or DoM. That's it. Down the line when people rank up to the max, they'll make a list of the best abilities and stats, and people will copy those down and that's the end of the class being unique. As I said before in one of these threads, it's going to turn into Diablo II when everyone chose Paladin for the Holy Hammer technique.

With FFXI's job system, even though there were typical sub jobs for certain jobs, we still had a variety. You didn't just see all Black Mage's because they did the best damage, but could also heal like a son of a bitch when it came with /whm. The auto-mp refresh SE just implemented just put one more kick to the groin as far as this one goes. That was RDM's purpose! To assist in healing and refreshing, not to mention debuffing the enemy!

Again I'm not saying bring back XI, but rather be influenced by it's diversity. It may have had a limit, but it was(and still is in my opinion) far more diversified than XIV is right now.