it was super fun

the classes were not balanced at all and didnt have archetypes they had to fit so they were all super unique

bard would just sit there and constantly cast buffs

redmage was a genuine hybrid which would heal, buff, debuff, and dps

Yeah if I wasn't going hard for Dragoon in 14 I would've went redmage

blue mage had like 200 spells to choose from and could make itself into basically anything

so what u mean about ff11 is that
you have agency in building your character?

ff14 redmage is just blackmage with different colors

**Better** colors

all ff14 classes are the same just with a different skin

yeah

its lame

And a stabby stik

also ffxi had a subjob system

and they butchered blu in it

so you had two jobs at once

your subjob was capped at half your main job level

so you could be like

warrior/ninja

i literally only know the proper idea of subjobbing because of FFd20

redmage/whitemage

~~don't play FFd20, unless you like terrible balance~~

it was so cool

i was a bluemage

/ninja to tank cause they got a spell that gave them 3 illusions that took hits before you did

/blackmage to dps and just spam big spells

it sounds like fun, actually... but the only issue is that they still charge a fee to play it, and i'm not gay enough to pay sqenix monthly to play an RPG when i can just play a tabletop RPG 🤔

its shit now

i wish i played 11 at its peak

they added npc party members

i would raid the shit out of absolute virtue

now everyone just plays on their own

i mean, that sounds like both a good and a bad thing

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

on one hand, it's easier to get into

there's private servers that are pretty cozy

on the other, most people will probably substitute you for an NPC if you suck lol

and thus lack of need for other players' cooperation

although if FF11 plays wonky like NWN does for a zoomer like me

i will be unable to play it because i wasn't gifted with that type of autism to adapt to primitive UI

I'll just stick with my Warhammer Online private servers