Switching jobs while in a duty

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I think it's an excellent idea. One of the major selling points for FFXIV is the ability to play every job on a single character. It'd be nice to see that element of the game embraced more often.

Yes, but it's still a trinity based game and like it or not the community cant behave.

They moved away from cross job skills because they didn't want people forced to level other jobs to be effective on one. Provoke from Gladiator is a solid example; every tank actually needed that.

Even if job switching feature does provide problems, part of the charm for MMOs imo or any online games for that matter is dealing with such problems. Having everything too streamlined and managed by the game kills immersion and sense of freedom imo aswell as any meaningful online interaction in PUG content. There should of course be a balance between freedom in player cooperation and streamlining to avoid conflicts and have a viable system, but this game is stream lining too much imo.

Just look at dungeon design, they don't even seem to trust players enough to be able to cooperatively do anything more complex than progress through a single hallway. It's unjustified mistrust imo since Haukke Mannor and Wanderer's Palace seem to be done just fine with PUGs.

Duty finder is not emersion full stop. If they wanted to provide emersion then they'd have everyone 'walk' to instance entrances. It's convenient and it's what players expect these days. One you've done the dungeon for the story it's grind content for whatever purpose - you want it to take as little time as possible.

They did have choices in the old dungeons but guess what.. players, in general, didn't like choices: they want a narrow hall. What would happen if a tank took the slightly longer route - kick.

While petty reasons for kicking are uncommon they still do happen. I seen a surge when WoW players switched,

Seriously, blaming WoW. FF14 community is much more kick happy, particularly with the dont ask, dont tell attitude with parsers.