Ability Points, Skill Trees & Talents being considered to replace leveling. Thoughts?

[Tunda]

This would be fine if the content was diversified. If raids were like alliance raids for example. It would balance it self out if let say a blm was weak against boss 1 because it resisted fire.
But excel at boss 2 because it was weak to fire. May then be somewhat neutral on boss 3 which has no affinity to either of those elements..

It's only a problem when all content is essentially 1 boss and done. Content design is the biggest problem.

The most interesting design boss I have seen in FFXIV is garuda&ifrit level 80 shadowbringers raid.. man this fight gives me chill even when i watch it again the idea that we have 2 boss that we have to maintain as a team.. AOE abilities have to shine again in raids.

I like to see 4 Raids split into 4 type of bosses:
- boss that is very generic
- boss that split into 2+ bosses that we have to maintain.
- boss focus more into mechanic with less care about dps
- boss have mix of 3 and extra gemics

in this way we can have every play style possible to be shine