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

[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.