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(06-02-2015, 12:32 PM)Telluride Wrote:Its a simple explanation.(06-02-2015, 12:19 PM)Aaron Wrote: Sorry I missed this post lol.
I can see where you're coming from, but the thing is if you already leveled a class to 30/40 then that really was just a waste of time since you'll never use it again probably. And seeing how Yoshi said 1-50 is like a tutorial doing that would be like staying in school till high school and dropping out in the tenth grade. And the next class would be like a GED substitute.
Horrible example I know. But best I could think on the spot v.v
If I accept that, then I can say with the same aplomb that leveling a side class to 15 just to continue playing the class I CHOSE, is an even BIGGER WASTE. It is a waste that is not a bug, but a feature. If I'm playing a Warrior, and I don't level GLD to 22 to get Provoke, then I will get harrassed as a tank for what is essentially a "Strange Design Choice", to invoke the thread's title.
To use your own Metaphor, the official method of class advancement in FFXIV is the equivalent of going to one school, and being told that you're not allowed to graduate from it unless you take Summer classes at a completely different and generally totally unrelated school. Unless, of course, you can argue that spellcasters really NEED to be archers, that bards need to study boxing, and that Sultansworn Paladins all need to spend a semester in Gridania getting lectured by horn-headed tree huggers (because Desert warriors are all about the trees!).
We've basically come to terms with how SE is handling Heavensward, but a lot of it is still rather arbitrary.
So, yeah, nobody here is playing this game long if they aren't fine with wasting time on classes they probably didn't want to play. Yoshi could stand a smarter metaphor in this case.
But whether we accept it or not, wasting our time is still a really goofy design choice.
One skill alone won't get you through life. Ever heard of cynclical unemployment? I think that stands as a good example of the need for leveling multiple classes for cross skills.
HOWEVER that is not my point. Leveling a class to 50 and having leveled another to a certain level for a skill is not the same as skipping 1 - 50 for a 30 - 60 and fucking over the MSQ.
You have to look at it from a general standpoint. If I worked for my cake the hard way till HW. Why should this sudden new person just get it because they paid for it too? Or do any less work than I have?
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