New Gear... for class only? [Glaring Issue] [Request]

[Ulric]

I'm telling you right now, though, if you can't get the hell over your anti-XI, hater mentality, then these issues will never be resolved.

I'm not anti-XI. I'm fine if they take things from it, but I don't want to be playing FFXI again. If I did, I'd be playing it. I agree that the armoury system could be better, but tell me this, could you do better than what's being done now? At the moment, the game is being salvaged from a failed attempt, and I'm fairly certain that the current team is working on a deadline with 2.0, same as the original team was working on one when the game was first released. Something like reworking the armoury system, I'm sure would be unable to be done, along with everything else required of them before 2.0 comes out.

Personally, I think the armoury system is fine. You don't, that's okay. Your opinion, you're entitled to it.

[Rykan]

I'm not anti-XI. I'm fine if they take things from it, but I don't want to be playing FFXI again. If I did, I'd be playing it. I agree that the armoury system could be better, but tell me this, could you do better than what's being done now? At the moment, the game is being salvaged from a failed attempt, and I'm fairly certain that the current team is working on a deadline with 2.0, same as the original team was working on one when the game was first released. Something like reworking the armoury system, I'm sure would be unable to be done, along with everything else required of them before 2.0 comes out.

Personally, I think the armoury system is fine. You don't, that's okay. Your opinion, you're entitled to it.

Actually, yes I think I could come up with something right off the top of my head. Nobody wants a FINISHED product, right away. We just want the "hope" of something new to come. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH:

IF Yoshi-P will simply make some indication that he is unhappy with the state of the Armoury System, and plans to pretty much revamp it from the ground up, it might make us all "settle down" a bit. However, he seems to just be making slight adjustments to the existing system. In fact, it's actually gotten worse in many ways. It was a lot more fun when classes had access to ANY actions from other lvl'd classes.

While it was pretty much mandatory for ppl to lvl every class (assuming you wanted to be any use at all), at least it was somewhat "rare" to see ppl w/ all the tier II buffs. Now, with this "lvls w/ you as you go action" you just have to lvl the class high enough to GET the action, and then simply port it over to your high lvl class (as long as it's available). You don't even have to bother getting cnj past lvl 4, and your lvl 50 MRD can take full advantage of it. It is the STUPIDIST idea they've pumped out since Day 1.

Edit: P.S. What happened to all the feedback Yoshi got from us back in that first player poll?

"Would you welcome changes to FFXIV that would drastically alter the rules already set in Eorzea?"

I clicked "Yes." So did some 65+ percent of the voters....

[Ulric]

IF Yoshi-P will simply make some indication that he is unhappy with the state of the Armoury System, and plans to pretty much revamp it from the ground up, it might make us all "settle down" a bit. However, he seems to just be making slight adjustments to the existing system. In fact, it's actually gotten worse in many ways.
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What if he isn't unhappy with the armoury system?

While it was pretty much mandatory for ppl to lvl every class (assuming you wanted to be any use at all), at least it was somewhat "rare" to see ppl w/ all the tier II buffs. Now, with this "lvls w/ you as you go action" you just have to lvl the class high enough to GET the action, and then simply port it over to your high lvl class (as long as it's available). You don't even have to bother getting cnj past lvl 4, and your lvl 50 MRD can take full advantage of it. It is the STUPIDIST idea they've pumped out since Day 1.

As true as that is, the abilities are generally not as effective as they are on their native class. Compare a Marauder's Cure to a Conjurer or White Mage's, I guarantee you'll notice a pretty big difference. On top of that, we can only equip 10 cross class abilities, and having those extra spells would ruin it. Hell, the native abilities on CON/WHM/THM/BLM would take up more than the action bar is currently able to hold, leaving you with no options for other abilities.

The only Archers, Marauders, and Lancers that should have been curing/stoneskin-ing/protecting themselves are the ones that are "dumb enough" to "sub whm."

This totally just flew by my head on your last post. I hope you're not serious about this.

Any chance we had for being unique is thrown completely out the window. Every Dragoon is just a carbon copy of any other Dragoon, as is every other choice. At least with XI, although /nin ruined it, there was an OPPORTUNITY to be different than the next guy.

Would you mind explaining this? In FFXI, everyone wore the same gear, with all the same abilities. If they didn't, they were trying to. In this, the only thing that this may apply to is AF. And so what if everyone wears their AF? It's their choice. It's also not their only choice. And that's just gear! Look at the abilities.

Edit: P.S. What happened to all the feedback Yoshi got from us back in that first player poll?

"Would you welcome changes to FFXIV that would drastically alter the rules already set in Eorzea?"

2.0

I really hope you don't expect that stuff to change overnight, when there's already a date planned for those big changes.