And this has been my opinion for as long as I've been playing. Coming from FF where each 'job' or class has a specific play style to something so outta balance. Bump this and please let this become a reality

I agree that this would be absolutely fantastic for PVE. However it would be an absolute nightmare in PVP. Can you imagine the "OMGZZZZZ BUNGIEEEEE NURFFF HUNTRZZ THEY ARE SO OP" or "I BLAMING SHOT A BLAMING TITAN 40000000000000 TIMEZ AND THEY NO DIE" posts that would be all over the forums?

Aye

I wholeheartedly agree with this idea. I chose a hunter, prefering to be an "assassin" of sorts. I love to move across a battlefield and chose who or what I engage. dealing a burst amount of damage to one enemy before backing out before the others in the group can react. and yet, the only difference is that in the tower, with maxed mobility, I can climb the boxes with slightly more ease. I run marginally faster than my titan and warlock counterparts, arriving to the next area of the mission at only a fraction of a second before my fireteam. there are areas of the maps that titans can access through jumps that I cannot get to or must find a lengthy work around, and the only thing more predictable to shoot than a jumping hunter is a glide-hovering warlock. when Bungie first introduced the Recovery/Armor/mobility mechanics, I think everyone expected them to play a much more pivotal role in the game. while it is much to late in the game to make the larger changes that I believe are necessary for this mechanic, because making a change that large in the middle of a games life to a "core" mechanic can be quite detrimental. I hope that they will further differentiate these in the future (Destiny 2), or even make small but noticeable changes in the current game.

The idea among these that I like the most (but which might annoy the most people if it did somehow find its way into this game or any sequels) would be some special slot weapons that, while not restricted to particular classes, would nevertheless have abilities that are class specific so that each would be specialized for one of the classes. The one that I’ve really wanted to be in the game in some form the whole time I’ve been playing it would be swords, ones that you actually equip. Definitely not as powerful as the relic swords, though; leaving the melee attack as the same damage as your melee attack would deal anyway would already give you a better weapon than the normal melee (assuming you’d still be in third person) as sword swings seem to be faster and have better tracking as is. Removing the sort of “gliding” effect from midair swings for non-relic swords would probably be a good idea though. Then, for the primary “fire” mode, you could have single use high intensity cutting edges of some sort, mono-filament edges for kinetic damage and a sheath of plasma for the elemental damage types, that would deploy for a swing and get used up as you hit things. You could also have the “aim” button as a block, to mitigate damage from melee attacks. Then, you could have Striker Titans (and maybe Bladedancer Hunters?) apply their melee abilities through the sword instead, so that they would amplify these high power melee attacks further. Defenders, meanwhile, could burn uses of the sword’s enhanced edge by pressing the “aim” and “fire” buttons at the same time to give a short lived overshield or other surge of defensive power to guard against serious attacks, as long as you can face the incoming attack and use this ability with good timing. Hunters could have compound bows, as that fits both the Gunslinger’s suggested sniper role and the Bladedancer’s close quarters assassin role. You could have the bow share the damage increase over range with the knife that I suggested earlier, for the Gunslinger, and have the same damage boost for melee attacks from behind that I suggested for the Bladedancer, without losing the ability to do precision damage (probably leading to instant kill shots and loads of rage, so this idea could use some work). Then, continuing the theme of giving the classes appropriate space fantasy versions of weapons they would have in normal fantasy (which actually happened by accident), Warlocks could have an energy weapon version of a blasting rod, primary fire shooting a continuous stream of energy like the sentinel beams from Halo, and the “aim” button shooting low power balls of explosive energy. For Voidwalkers, these energy balls would stick on hitting a surface instead of immediately exploding, and thereafter act as proximity bombs capable of detonating each other; and the beam could slow targets or slowly drain the charge on abilities that haven’t already fully charged. For Sunsingers, these attacks could heal allies struck with them as I suggested for grenades, or push enemies away the way the Solar Wind ability does. I think that’s about all I’ve got in general. Even if anyone ever looks at what I’ve typed here, it probably won’t make a difference, but it’s fun to talk about, and maybe someone at Bungie will find something useful in all this.

I guess I might as well put my other ideas here, shaky as they are, since no one is ever going to look at this anyway. The big thing, in my mind, would be giving each subclass a role that their abilities strongly push the user toward: Striker Titans already have skills (Shoulder Charge, Headstrong, Unstoppable, Overload, Fist of Havoc itself even) that strongly suggest that you rush toward the enemy and smash them with melee attacks. You could make it so the Striker subclass secondarily focuses on Agility (though not as much as Armor) and make it so sprinting Strikers build up momentum, slowly gaining speed and making it harder for explosions to push them off course; this would then transfer into more damage on melee impact, possibly doing such things as making the Discharge modifier for Storm Fist have a larger blast radius the longer you were sprinting, shoving targets into walls with damaging force with Shoulder Charge, things like that. Maybe you could make it so that having more momentum cuts incoming damage by a percentage, so that using Fist of Havoc on bosses wasn’t suicidal, or even make Fist of Havoc backwash and push you away from bosses so you don’t get murdered by their instant kill melee attacks. You could add to all this a ramp up in close range damage, like the damage fall off over range but in reverse, so that the place you want to be as a Striker is definitely in the enemy’s face. Defenders, as things are in the game as is, can essentially do as well at rushing toward the enemy and punching them as Strikers, focusing on being more durable instead of doing more damage. The Armor of Light version of Ward of Dawn, (which no one uses, it seems) is actually exceptionally good for killing such durable targets as the Public Event assassination targets- you lure them into the purple bubble of doom and then punch them to death, laughing at their pitiful attempts to punch you back. I kind of feel like this isn’t what a “Defender” should do, maybe it could be made so that if you stay in the same area for a while, just up to five seconds, your Armor attribute (in a world where Armor meant something) would, at maximum, do 50% more than it would if you were sprinting around, and Recovery 25% more. That would be for actually standing in one spot and not moving, so that holding an objective area and running around it fighting enemies would give you something more like 30% more Armor and 15% more Recovery. Just so that you do your job better if that job is defending an area. You could also reduce the Agility Defenders get, and emphasize Recovery (again, in a world where these stats meant something) I’ve mostly played as the Titan, so my suggestions for the other classes are shakier. It seems to me, though, that the Warlock classes have some considerable overlap in what they do- they’re both about hurling bombs at people, Voidwalkers big ones and Sunsingers lots of small ones. You could make it so that Sunsingers have more of a medic role, seeing as the ability to self-resurrect is the ultimate medic ability anyway, and give them the ability to heal allies (Radiance super would give healing and build up overshield over time in a radius, grenades would heal allies in the blast radius). Then, as the Voidwalker’s version of team support, you could emphasize their area denial abilities- make vortexes left by grenades and Nova Bomb last longer and grow in size and power as they deal damage. My suggestions for Hunters are the most sparse. The only things I could think of were making it so that Gunslingers ignore damage fall off over distance when getting precision damage, maybe even do more damage the further away an enemy is for the throwing knife, and Bladedancers doing boosted damage when attacking a foe from behind, with a higher boost for melee attacks, and the radius that counts as "behind" increasing while you are invisible. Other than this, all I can come up with was something I mentioned earlier in passing- giving subclasses emphasis on one of the attributes other than what their overarching main class emphasizes. Titans get Armor, Warlocks Recovery, and Hunters Agility, primarily, and then you could make Striker Titans get more Agility as well as Bladedancers getting more Armor, Defenders getting some Recovery as well as Voidwalkers getting some Armor, Gunslingers getting Recovery and Sunsingers getting some Agility. Then each element would have an affinity, also- Void would be defense focused, giving Armor and Recovery, Arc would be focused on pummeling enemies in close quarters, providing Agility and Armor, and Solar would be focused on striking from afar or indirectly and otherwise leveraging advantages of mobility, with Recovery and Agility.