Pawkeshup the Meaningless wrote:
The concept behind THM vs. BLM is that BLM clearly locks your focus on being a DD, like it should. Jobs are specializations. If they allowed you to freely slot in any of the original cross-class skills, there would be no point of THM even existing after 30.
THM locks you into full damage. This makes no sense at all. lol
Pawkeshup the Meaningless wrote:
That's the cost of the choice. Either specialize, and become a more powerful version of your class, or water yourself down with abilities you shouldn't have. Why do you think the Duty Finder does the two tank and two healer thing? Because this isn't FFXI where you all line up behind 1 tank and have one healer bombing the one tank with other people using support jobs as needed.
Pawkeshup the Meaningless wrote:
If they allowed you to freely slot in any of the original cross-class skills, there would be no point of THM even existing after 30.
There is no choice. You either become a BLM at 30 or a slightly sh*ttier BLM (THM) at 30. See the posts above? This pretty much confirms this.
The bolded is a very astute observation, though. There is no point in post-30 classes: welcome to this thread.
Pawkeshup the Meaningless wrote:
You cannot compare two games with widely different mechanics and say they should play the same. It just doesn't make sense. That's like saying in MW3 I should be able to use black hole grenades from Borderlands 2. Or in Final Fantasy Tactics, I should be able to cast the summons from FFVII. People need to let FFXI go.
Maybe you should reread the post.
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They are echoes of what subjob abilities used to be.
does not imply I think this is FFXI: hence the choice of wording when it comes to 'echoes'. Something similar but not the same.
It was not executed well in 11 either but some abilities made or broke a class. For instance, during Zilart/CoP/ToAU era, NIN without provoke would be...well....quite interesting. It at least made subjobs relevant.
In 14, cross class skills are not fleshed out enough to make classes relevant post 30. In fact, the cross class skills just serve to make jobs stronger. Getting the point of this thread yet? Good.
Edited, Oct 4th 2013 4:26am by HitomeOfBismarck