Ability Leveling Suggestion

[Elexia]

All skill trees are is an additional grind (ohoho, people think MMOs are free of grinds right?) when in reality XIV's auto leveling into skills is the exact same, you're just not grinding to level 1 skill in order to unlock another branch of skills, then to power them up. Skills scale with level in XIV as is, so a talent tree would be kind of redundant.

With the addition of Jobs soon, it is a fair bit redundant to want this kind of system ontop of it. Also, no stats don't make "a little difference", no one's gotten down the stat caps and diminishing returns yet since we have base stats of 200+ which means you need a lot more bonus stats to see a real increase versus in FFXI where you had 80 STR and + 140 str in your WS setup that showed an obvious difference.

[Avraym]

All skill trees are is an additional grind (ohoho, people think MMOs are free of grinds right?) when in reality XIV's auto leveling into skills is the exact same, you're just not grinding to level 1 skill in order to unlock another branch of skills, then to power them up. Skills scale with level in XIV as is, so a talent tree would be kind of redundant.

With the addition of Jobs soon, it is a fair bit redundant to want this kind of system ontop of it. Also, no stats don't make "a little difference", no one's gotten down the stat caps and diminishing returns yet since we have base stats of 200+ which means you need a lot more bonus stats to see a real increase versus in FFXI where you had 80 STR and + 140 str in your WS setup that showed an obvious difference.

It's not the same. Skill trees generally mean your class has to choose a path. You normally sacrifice one or two paths to specialize in one. A.K.A - White Mage - Specialise in healing but do less damage with elemental spells.

In FFXIV, you can use every skill without having to give up anything.
Slot cost isn't really an issue given that most abilities are class specific.

FFXIV just needs something more class defining. Every job will be pretty much be indentical, which in my opinion, makes the game much more stale. (EG. That WHM has the exact same spells as my WHM)

Awesome gif btw Brigandier.