(07-03-2013, 12:12 AM)Naunet Wrote:(07-02-2013, 11:34 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Personally, with this particular game's main scenario quest, I think it's problematic to ignore the "story player character." The story reveals some pretty key lore about player characters that's hard to ignore while retaining the ability to do instanced raids and quests. (Damn you, spoilers!Eh, I doubt only the Warriors of Light are capable of doing dungeons, so there are likely plenty of opportunities for fighter-type characters that don't follow the main story PC plot. And certainly a non-combat character should be able to do any PvE they so wish OOCly.)
There are certain fights you can't participate in ICly if you don't have the Echo, actually. There's one instanced raid in specific around level 20 that comes to mind. I expect high end dungeons will have more such fights.
And, sure, you can do whatever you want OOCly, but then you're missing out on being able to do the content ICly or with groups that want to do the content IC (assuming they'd prefer to have others in the group who also want to do it IC). How much that matters to a player is up to them, though. As a non-combatant character, you also run into the complications of having potentially high combat class levels, but as was discussed in another thread, that's not that big of an issue as long as you're careful.
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