[Dev 1032] Drastic Change to Skill Points/Job Uniqueness

[Rexen]

Hello All,

I was thinking the other day about what made battle and leveling up so gratifying in other Final Fantasy games and came to a conclusion: Being able to rank up the abilities you get from the different jobs.I am sure many of you have "Mastered" Knights of the Round materia or completed the entire "map" of skills in FFX. What if the skill points system actually went to the skills and the experience points to the job? You could make it so the only time you could skill up a skill was when you were actively on that job but the skills could be used by all jobs (with exceptions) as they are now (with an affinity decrease of course). This would work not only for DoW and DoM, but also Hand and Land by providing an incentive to level up other classes for their unique skills (Preserve III or Sweat of Brow II for instance). I understand this would be a drastic change but I also believe it would provide for a more focused leveling system. What are your thoughts?

[Holyfye]

Hmmm thats pretty interesting if it goes like the way FF7 materia used to be ! The more you use Fire for conjurer the more you become a fire specialized mage for example! and the more you fight and use the more powerful it gets ... It kinda relates to FF8 when you tame your summon more by summoning it so it gets the casting time shortened by much ...

So the more Fire is used the more Magic accuracy/damage it gets... then if you learned Fira later on you would need to start training it as well .. so you end up with a certain specialization without making talent tree or so ...

I would ALSO love if summoner class gets released it has the idea of taming the summon to fasten its casting speed the more you use that certain summon ...

You are so right about it... it used to be a major part of the entertainment we had in FF series... In FF9 the way we used to take the skills from each item and learn it then either equip it or not

I wish to see similar stuff in FFXIV