How would you feel if they scrapped the current "classes"?

[Kimahri]

i did not come at him because he disagrees with how he feels the game is. i came back at him because he called me out personally by name bashing the way i play my game. i play my game the way the system is setup. and you are right you and i disagree, but we did it while tryin to look at the views the other has and that i do respect.

now if you want to go by not very final fantasyish why don't you go to the most popular final fantasy and that was VII you had the ability to use any ability you had and people loved that about the game. i wouldn't mind if we could use all abilities from all classes since in the end it is still your character. my character learned this ability and i want to use it. if you want to knock down the abilities usefulness such as cure is lower on mele classes since they dun use a wand that would be fine with me, but if someone uses magic and has magic then they should be able to use magic.

i do agree with you guys in the sense that classes need to be more unique and as i said earlier that would be handled by addiing class exclusive abilities through the guilds for each class. that would allow you to add any number of abilities that would make that class unique which is what you guys are wanting. i understand that and am not arguing that fact. the only thing i said is i loved being able to use the abilities that i have EARNED the right to use. the game used being able to do what you want with your character as one of it's selling points and it is the reason i got it.

Totally agree with you that FF7 is the best one out there in terms of storyline game. Now here's where I defer, but don't worry I see something there in your post I'll get back to that I like. FF7 had these same abilities, yes, but you need to remember that it was just you playing. Not a large group of people. While it worked in a 1-player RPG ten years ago, doesn't mean it'll work the same in an MMO.

If you turned Cloud into a bad*** striker that could also slaughter foes with his Bolt 3, then that was your choice on the platform RPG. It had no others to compete with in terms of other players that you could play with. What I'm trying to say is that if everyone levels Cloud like you did, then this game would totally resent itself in it's attempt to create a variety of unique qualities. If everyone could use become a heavy striker and also slaughter with Tier 3 spells, wouldn't that seem as a crutch in the long run of this game? I guess what I'm trying to say again is that too much freedom of choice leads to the best possible choices that people tend to gimmick.

Now where I do agree with you is that they need to make some better damn abilities that you can obtain through guild marks. Quite frankly as I said I only see one good one and that's the Conjurer's Fast Cast. And I also hope you agree with me that weaponskills should also be used exclusively to that certain class and/or weapon.

Edit: Also I want you to also think about this....A way people would gimmick others in FFXI was to copy off their gear. Now this would also be a concern with FFXIV on top of, not everyone, but most people copying off abilities and then gear.