Skill Point distribution [dev1021]

[zaviermhigo]

The new system isn't better, it just turns half the party usually into a leech. Now they are going to decrease party size to 8 because they couldn't admit that the mobs in this game were too easy. Outside of some massive tp attack, and how EVERY mob has a ranged attack, the mobs in this game are not tough. Few are, likes drakes, ants, crabs, scaling for rank. I'm not trying to make battles XI length but damn a two second fight is not fun for me, it may be fun for DDs but I'm a mage, all I do in 2 secs fights is spam cures and make sure the dds are alive, a game focused on DDs at all times doing a zerg is straight up lame. Why don't I get to use Paralyze often, why couldn't I skill up under the old action based system? because the mobs were easy and dds zerg. The best way to skill up under the old system was: my boyfriend and I , GLA and THM respectively, duoing crabs with punishing barbs before they gimped it. This required strategy and was more fun, in my opinion, than the LEECH and SPAM CURE system that people are forced into. Some linkshells don't even try to do magic defense down on enemies with BRs so mages can nuke it down, they always think "OMG DEF DOWN DD ZERG OMG OMG OMG", and this annoyed me to no end. Make mobs harder so that DDs are not the most important class in this game, instead they would just go compare damage size to each other that I can't even see because i turned that crap off lol. /rant -Thanks for never confronting the real problem of beefing up mobs Square Enix.-

edit: challenging mobs, but not mobs that necessarily one shot the whole party. I did not get one shotted often in XI, maybe two shotted. WTF at getting ONE SHOTTED a lot in this game, even tanks, even people with high vit lol and especially paper mage conj, and paper dd lnc. Difficulty is not measured in how FAST the mobs kills me, or how FAST I kill the mob, goddammit, its how much strategy went into the fight. You can get strat good enough to kill a mob in a min or less, but zerg should not be the main strategy. Also how many people even played FFXIV at the time with the action based sp, it isn't souding like a lot.

[Physic]

yea, i dunno bout now, but before 1 shot skills were usually avoidable, especially by mages. like i think raptors would tail sweep if you hit them in the back. basically what you had to do was keep the hate facing the tank, and the DDs in front of them, now if someone turned the mob, people would usually die, it also did different dmg the closer you were to the raptor i believe.
It was an interesting mechanic specific to raptors, but a lot of monsters had special mechanics, and ways to take advantage of them.