Discussing your 'unpopular' opinions

[MistakeNot]

I don't really see this as an "unpopular" opinion tbh. I mean, I disagree with you, as I did enjoy it, but many people don't like the kind of humor used in the Manderville quest line.

I'd say that it is an "unpopular" opinion in that most people like the Manderville quests - but hardly a unique opinion since a number of people dislike it.
I do think most people think that the 3.x Manderville questline was far less funny than the 2.x one. Better story in some ways, but less funny.

[Theodric]

- The 'No Duplicates' approach to Byakko (EX) is a real pain. I understand why it is done, though I see it as a major oversight on the part of the development team just like the days where 'Skip Soar' ended up becoming the norm for Zurvan (EX).

- Most disagreements in this game are, ultimately, trivial and could be resolved fairly easily if both parties involved were willing to talk as equals.

- PvP needs to be geared towards the niche that truly appreciate it and not the 'masses' who only jump in for tomes and experience but then abandon it the moment they cease to need either.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

- PvP needs to be geared towards the niche that truly appreciate it and not the 'masses' who only jump in for tomes and experience but then abandon it the moment they cease to need either.

Forget my girlfriend, I'm sending you flowers for Valentine's Day <3

[Pomelo]

- PvP needs to be geared towards the niche that truly appreciate it and not the 'masses' who only jump in for tomes and experience but then abandon it the moment they cease to need either.

Agreed! To be fair sometimes having a good gear motivation helps. Garo bought lots of people in, some of them stayed. The new PVP sets are beautiful, but SO EASY to get, they require hardly any Wolf things, a few matches and your done...and then you don't look back.

[RiyahArp]

I'm on less too, but if you pop on, search for me. I tend to be quieter in game than here, though. I see winter occasionally, but hvent had him on a team.

[Hierro]

Dark Knight is FINE.

When people rant about DRK, they go on about "being behind DPS, mitigation, and utility." Remember WAR pre-SiO buff? People were not complaining about WAR's lack of utility. It was desirable because it had damage and a great solid mitigation kit. That established, "utility" isn't a deal breaker. By comparison, the only real thing about DRK that is behind is its damage, but it's not by a significant amount. This is no way mirrors Gordian PLD. Remember that? Remember how they were incapable of completing A4S without being 10 ilvls ahead of the other tanks? Not the case at all with current DRK!

You look right now at data from o6s, the most uptime friendly fight, and you'll see DRK only lags behind WAR by less than 8% in dps. From that fight onward, the gap only shrinks.

Anyways, TBN is great and can mix and match with all CDs to get all the mitigation you need. Considering in dps stance, you could very well argue DRK's mitigation surpasses WAR's.

[kamikrazy]

I think housing is fine.

[Bellsong]

SE should have forced players who owned multiple homes to choose which two they wanted to keep (Personal and FC) and opened the rest up. SE should also start putting there foot down on players that abuse the current system to set themselves up with multiple FC houses. The housing situation is far from okay because exactly what SE wanted to prevent is just happening anyways because you only need 4 people in an FC to buy a house, and with houses lingering for so long on FC only purchase, who wouldn't be tempted to just start buying them out to make the most of the new subs?

SE needs to stop playing around and take a hard stance on housing and enforce it.

[Jandor]

I like classes, I liked the cross-class system, and I think new jobs should have had base classes to start from and that the cross-class system should have been fleshed out rather than scrapped.

[Shurrikhan]

I like classes, I liked the cross-class system, and I think new jobs should have had base classes to start from and that the cross-class system should have been fleshed out rather than scrapped.

I practically grieved for the customization opportunities lost when Yoshida decided to just proceed forward with a contradictory and half-assed Cross-class actions and later the underwhelming Role Actions rather than fleshing out class identity, synergies, and job extensions in an actually decent manner.

While classes like Templar, Ronin, and Gunner -- if again made just for the purpose of "filling out" a checklist of class before the real job -- might not be worth missing in and of themselves, the more integrated skills and magics systems a real cross-class system might achieve are certainly worthy of retrospection.