Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
Ability Points, Skill Trees or Talents being considered to replace leveling. Thoughts?

https://youtu.be/6PIxQPKBf0E?t=1012

I'm sure the developers will be interested to know what players think about these things before they do them.
Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
Well if you think about it, we have a proof of concept in Blue Mage.
That would just lead to power creep in the same way it breaks other games.

What happens in other games is that if you use the "Ability point" system to decide what you want, that means nobody EVER does anything because they want the skill, only because it lets them make bigger booms. So nobody will ever Tank or Heal. Everyone will just make themselves glass cannons.

Like to give an example from one other game, nobody, ever, heals. It's too expensive in MP to do it. It's more cost effective to spam 100 pots than it is to have one person heal, and you can't heal yourself because you have to switch to a healing wand that does single digit damage if you fight with it.

No the Armory system in FFXIV is mutually incompatible with an Ability point system. Unless they seriously are going to break apart the system so that you can do everything with every weapon, and mix and match skills from every job, and then the consequences will be that players will will not tank or heal in parties. Players will be berated for trying to heal when they should DPS like ... ooh what's been happening ever since launch.

The end result is everyone plays exactly the same meta, and essentially instead of having a dozen jobs, you have exactly one, the glass-cannon.