Originally Posted by
Crevox
Some people do this, sure, but it is by no means required.
The only boss this is done on is Tojil, by the way, and that is because of Incinerating Lahar which inflicts Weakness. You can survive this without stunning it, however for pug groups, preventing it from happening is the safest strategy.
Remember when I said that people who don't even do Delve or understand it are trying to suggest balance changes? I think that's you right now.
Could you go without a BRD? Sure, but it would be a bad idea in many cases, because you'd be missing out on all that extra haste.
Why do you keep blaming the game for what is the community's fault? RUN can tank everything in the game except the most difficult content.
Besides that, PLD is just often stronger in general; certainly not required to be stronger in most cases, but still.
You're correct, NIN could use some buffs in this department, or content needs to be adjusted to stop eating so many shadows. SE has already acknowledged this and implemented a lot of new content (Unity NMs, maybe vagary) where Ninjas could tank much more comfortably. However, again, do you see any Ninjas? Because I don't see anyone playing Ninjas. They can DD pretty well, even better if SE decides to fix Blade: Hi like they said they were going to recently
COR and GEO are used in tons of content; COR is not used a replacement to BRD due to lack of lullaby and hastes. GEO is extremely powerful, but there is still a lack of people playing it, and a lot of people do quite poorly at it. I've invited many random GEOs, and none of them nuke or enfeeble, and even though I tell them exactly what buffs/debuffs I desire, they have a hard time doing it for some reason.
SMN is getting buffs, but is actually a decent buffing job now. They just have a hefty gear requirement (in addition to a lot of swapping around gear required) and are a bit unorthodox to play with buff/favor juggling, but the buffs we're getting is actually helping that.