Outta the way, Peck!

I was reading some comments on a slashdot article yesterday and got to thinking how FFXIV might be different from other MMORPGs. Of course, this is entirely speculation because SE still refuses to comment at all on the battle system for FFXIV and won't even really say much about the job and level system. ("We cannot talk about the battle system at this time." "we are trying to implement a lot of new systems that other MMO’s haven’t used in the past." "We will expand the job system to make it fairly different from the one in FFXI." etc....)

I don't know of any RPG system where, the more damage you take, the less effective you are at your job. Like, if you have 1500 HP, and you're currently down around 100 HP, that actually would mean that you are almost dead and probably would feel like crap... so you shouldn't be able to hit mobs as strongly as you normally would hit them at full HP.

Along those lines, when you "level up", why should you get so much more HP upon leveling? You should basically just be able to defend better against weaker mobs, but not realistically "have" more HP. Know what I mean? Then again, to counter that thought, I guess having drastically more HP means you can survive weaker attacks better anyways... so your HP % is actually what remains unaffected (eg. your pain-tolerance threshold is effectively higher.)

I kinda hope that FFXIV really IS different from other MMORPGs in that they honestly have found a different approach to levels/skills.

Why CAN'T a new WHM just sit in town and constantly spam Cures on everyone that walks bye? So much so, that he would effectively be able to gather enough experience/skill in curing that he'd be able to eventually learn a Cure IV spell. Actually going out and killing mobs shouldn't be necessary for a skill like that. Think of it like teaching yourself how to program in various software languages at home, rather than getting real-world/corporate experience writing applications.

I dunno. Just random thoughts I was having yesterday.