Cyanne Wrote:4th job was totally rushed though, you can tell that whoever designed it or whatever group of people designed it was not the same as the one that designed first through third jobs and that 3rd job was created without 4th job in mind.
I agree on the 4th job introduction. Whatever attempts were made pre-4th job to diversify gameplay with different weapons and skill builds was completely thrown away with the 4th job. Axes, blunt weapons and pole-arms rendered completely useless.
It's not to say that coming up with different skills for the above mentioned weapons is hard as well - look at the Aran class, it's basically what could have been of the pole-arm users in the DK community. Unfortunately pole-arm DKs don't exist anymore.
During the Tespia stages of 4th job I predicted that Genesis would not only be efficient for training, but would also bring in income. I got a hell lot of flak for that till today, but am I at least partially right 2 years on? I'd say I am. The ulti skills for the magicians were just a really poor and sloppy thought IMO. The idea of changing the environment to suit one's self is much better, but the Demon+Summon combo is very under-used (fixed typo). The summons should have been the other way around anyway, fire mages should summon Ifrit, using Fire Demon to bring the advantage to himself.