I know it's a whole can of worms, but as the game gets more complex, adding new sets of gear and new jobs to balance exponentially increases the amount of work the dev team has to do. I'd love if we could get specs ala WoW where some classes could have the option to do different roles! I think it'd be cool to breathe some life back into older jobs that way, and it could also be a way to provide for FF11 players whose job came back a little different (i.e. DRK having a DPS spec and SAM having a tank spec?)
It's always struck me as a little weird that arcanist (SMN/SCH) is the only job that breaks into two different roles to speak of, and it's a fun little thing about them. Being able to play a ranged DPS AST or a healer RDM would be neat to me. Dunno. Might also help with the horrible imbalance of roles for queues if someone who levels and plays primarily DPS had the option to play a tank or a healer spec of that same job.
Would love to hear other thoughts on this. I know WoW's balancing has a reputation for being kind of crazy whereas FFXIV is (imo) balanced to the point of sometimes feeling stale. I would hope there's some kind of happy medium in between these two extremes where stuff is never as unviable as classes in WoW can be, but never as universally good-but-samey as FFXIV.
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It's always struck me as a little weird that arcanist (SMN/SCH) is the only job that breaks into two different roles to speak of, and it's a fun little thing about them. Being able to play a ranged DPS AST or a healer RDM would be neat to me. Dunno. Might also help with the horrible imbalance of roles for queues if someone who levels and plays primarily DPS had the option to play a tank or a healer spec of that same job.
Would love to hear other thoughts on this. I know WoW's balancing has a reputation for being kind of crazy whereas FFXIV is (imo) balanced to the point of sometimes feeling stale. I would hope there's some kind of happy medium in between these two extremes where stuff is never as unviable as classes in WoW can be, but never as universally good-but-samey as FFXIV.
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