Quote Originally Posted by casker View Post
so after 30, would these classes not share abilities anymore or what?

and now we'd have to level each job from 30 to 50. I'm curious how many people would want this and how many wouldn't. We already have all the other classes to think about. Doing this would basically amount to adding grind.

I dunno man. It seems people argue that classes are useless as is, but isn't a class that's designed to be thrown away at 30 a little more useless.

I fear we are just going to talk ourselves in circles, but if you want to give gladiators some job skills, why not just make that set of skills into a job of its own and leave gladiator as it is

I'm not totally against your idea as I'm sure it could work, I just don't think it's that much different from what we have, or what could potentially be done with the system we have.
If I got my way I'd just go back to the FFXI formula with WAR THF WHM BLM RDM MNK PLD DRK SAM NIN DRG SMN etc etc and discard classes and the whole cross class ability gimmick all together but its semi-impossible to do without nuking the battle system and the levels people made already, which would cause so much drama if that happened.

Next best thing is to turn classes into jobs and make them unique so both will be usable instead of jobs overshadowing classes.

I see no point in having classes when you have jobs (Lets face it, the main argument for classes is "I want Cure and Stoneskin" and maybe the now less cross-class friendly sentinel) and always been against the cross class abilities in its original and current status (cap everything or you suck,change jobs mid event, get this ability from that class or you're nothing etc) I also have major issues with targeting (why can I target myself with a weapon skill? really?) the active/passive mode gimmick and the clunky battle system (why click F? why not just double click a mob?) even when compared to older games let alone the new wave of MMOs like TERA (amazing battle system and smooth UI with almost no lag).


I want this game to succeed, I really do but the flaws and residue from the old FFXIV concepts need to go first.