How many skills is too many?

[Kirsten_Rev]

So the more skills we have the better more options for us to choose from and makes the battle style more fun to do. But to what point is considered too many skills? 20? 30? 40?? 50?!?

Me? I think around 25ish mark is a enough skills for any player to have.

Personally, I think there are two upper bounds. One is control, obviously; I'd say somewhere around 40-45 would be the maximum number of abilities to have.

The second upper bound, however, is lower, and that's how many abilities make sense from a gameplay perspective. FFXIV's mechanics are so simple right now that it just doesn't make sense to have more than, say, 25-30 abilities. Beyond that, you start getting a feeling of multiple abilities for the same thing, or outright useless abilities that don't deserve a place in anyone's rotation, ever. Were SE to introduce more complexity into the combat (meaningful crowd control; more intricate situational combos; etc.), then it might be more reasonable to approach 40-45. As-is, though, I can't fathom what an additional 15 abilities would look like for most jobs.