This game is so linear, it makes straight lines jealous

[Gilraen]

Honestly, I don't run as my jobs because of the very thing you've mentioned. Does that mean I suck? No, job is just a special feature that you can freely use as the attached class. As for linear... again, do you know what that means? XIII was the 'so linear it makes rulers look like warped sticks' game, where you didn't have subquests until Gran Pulse and once you left Gran Pulse you never saw another subquest ever again. XIV is full of quests, some just need to be unlocked through progression in the main story, but once you did they were everywhere. The reason the main story progresses as it does is because it's the main story. One story connecting everything in the game. It was like this in XI, the story quests each feeding into the next story quest. Not sure what you were expecting.

[DeadlySwordz]

I dont think skills from other classes were suppose to chain off each other. It wouldn't make sense if you can chain skills from a different class that are not on your main. Makes no sense. And I can't believe you are comparing GTA5 to an MMO. lolwut?

[Geron_Slevin]

Not sure what you were expecting.

Isn't it obvious? Just look at his previous comments. He was expecting GTA5. Where your choices matter and your character is something no other characters ever are. /chuckle

[Sterob]

This whole game is linear. It's like Final Fantasy 13, but online.
as a max level DRG I have the following options for my skills:
Marauder
Pugilist

You know that archer have a lv 4 skill that + 20% damage right? or may be buff to decrease enmity so you can unlease your full dps without worry about agro.

So grow up and explode the game.

[ElHeggunte]

You know that archer have a lv 4 skill that + 20% damage right? or may be buff to decrease enmity so you can unlease your full dps without worry about agro.

So grow up and explode the game.

In fairness, when you switch to a JOB it limits what cross-class skills you're able to pick and how many you can take at one time. As a Dragoon you can only take skills from Marauder and Pugilist, regardless of what other abilities you could have used as a Lancer.

But like I said in one of his other threads, that hardly matters because this is what you call class balance. The driving point of the game, just like FFXI, is group play where other classes will make up for your own shortcomings.

[NagisaFurukawa]

Stopped reading after "as a max lvl DRG"

[Tiago]

Lol, seriously, these dudes xD
Also, RIFT uses classes... you can set you to the class instead of the job, and use skills from all other classes...
If you feel you dont have enough skills, do this and you will get a wider variety of skills...
Also no game is exactly the same as all others, like RIFT has Skill trees (or so i though), FFXI has subjobs, Diablo III has subskills, etc etc etc.
All are different. So if you dont like a game, you stop playing it. Or at least i though that was what normal people do... If they dont like something, they move on.
Also, it will take time for SE to add more stuffs or change the current, because they only just got past server issues... The game just released afew weeks ago.
FFXIV 1.0 to 1.23 changed so much that you dont even imagine.

[Leafcore]

The saddest part of this thread is that the OP actually believes that he will have more fun if it the game presented him with the illusion of choice, as if it's the one thing that is ruining everything good for him. It's like a person with an anxiety disorder who believes that it's other people who cause him anxiety and not his own illogical thought processes. Some cognitive therapy would do both of you guys some good.

[Issac]

This guy is hilarious! An absolute gem. And, obviously a troll. C'mon guys, 4 pages and no mention?

He calls a MMO linear. He calls this MMO linear. Right there, everyone can either entirely disregard him and laugh, or take the bait.

Seriously?

[jpem]

This is pretty linear compared to a lot of things though. Maybe not FF13 tier but pretty far from say EVE or even some single player games.