09-09-2009, 06:40 PM
They have a class list for FF14? Where? (Edit: DERP, never mind)
Also it'd be interesting to have a system where in the beginning you have access to all weapon types/stances/spells/skills/whatever, and over time as you use specific types more, the other ones get locked out. If you try to be a jack of all trades your EXP is also fragmented, so you're pressured to specialise, but the game lets you choose exactly what you want to specialise in. Maybe once your 'growth' in playstyle is complete, it generates a name for it. You get the classic Warrior/Priest/Mage titles, and unique ones for the more 'out there' combinations.
Of course in practice it would become evident that some combinations are retarded, and there'd be a subset of skinny, leather wearing half-elves wielding broadswords and fire magic; but that just comes with territory when there's a blank canvas.
Crystalsmithing was cool when it worked, and balls-to-the-wall infuriating when you've spent the last hour gathering materials only to have your shit break because you missed the moon alignment.
I'd have bought the ingredients from the Auction House, but the economy on Quetzalcoatl was so bad...
Also it'd be interesting to have a system where in the beginning you have access to all weapon types/stances/spells/skills/whatever, and over time as you use specific types more, the other ones get locked out. If you try to be a jack of all trades your EXP is also fragmented, so you're pressured to specialise, but the game lets you choose exactly what you want to specialise in. Maybe once your 'growth' in playstyle is complete, it generates a name for it. You get the classic Warrior/Priest/Mage titles, and unique ones for the more 'out there' combinations.
Of course in practice it would become evident that some combinations are retarded, and there'd be a subset of skinny, leather wearing half-elves wielding broadswords and fire magic; but that just comes with territory when there's a blank canvas.
Crystalsmithing was cool when it worked, and balls-to-the-wall infuriating when you've spent the last hour gathering materials only to have your shit break because you missed the moon alignment.
I'd have bought the ingredients from the Auction House, but the economy on Quetzalcoatl was so bad...