Overall Battle System Adjustments for the Future

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Originally Posted by Kincard

Trust me, it isn't. -ton spells are garbage.

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The -NI's kinda had purpose. Their magic evasion down effect is unresistable. The only negative is how short of a duration it lasts, if SE would buff the duration to be 60s then I could see some tactile use for it. For damage... their extremely ~meh~. Best someone could hope for is a few hundred points of damage from a single fully merited one.

With capped skill, Innin, and a little effort I think you can probably pop off ~800 damage San spells or ~400 damage Ni spells. They serve their purpose as an alternative damage form (magic damage/kiting damage source) and add versatility to the job.

Adjustments to them that I'd make:
1) I'd add an Occult Acumen-like trait to Ninja that gives 5~10 TP (Trait level 1 at 15, 2 at 40, 3 at 75) for every Ninjutsu landed.
2) I'd reduce the casting time of San spells to 1 second and leave the recast time unchanged. Magic damage has to be fast to remain competitive with melee damage, which SE seems to have recognized in the OP. Still, reducing the recast could make San spamming too viable, and Ninja is still primarily seen as a melee jobs.

I think I would only see those kinds of numbers outside Abyssea if I used Futae and I was nuking something worth nuking (both low level and weak to magic). Even if I run into a slime or a flan they're of questionable usability (because of how fast a Ninja attacks naturally anyway), and against a lot of enemies where it could've done better than meleeing I get resisted too often. I guess that's what the earlier poster meant by "it's a gear issue", since Ninja doesn't have a whole lot to choose from as far as magic damage gear goes.

For luls I threw a Suiton: Ni at Cerberus Seether a few times and it did less than 100 damage every time. Granted, I was hardly trying to maximize the damage (No Innin, ninjutsu skill set as opposed to MAB/INT set since skill bonus is capped without gear etc).

Ultimately by design it seems their purpose (Because of short cast time) was to basically be Ninja Meleeing -> Throw out big nuke if Futae is up/help set up a nuke for BLMs -> go back to meleeing. I think they should instead make San spells have less or equal cast time but a really, really long recast time with increased D, or make the Futae bonus a massive one (also make Futae make the next nuke increase elemental resistance/def down). That way it feels more like something supplementing my melee damage once in a while instead of just sort of being there or being overpowered enough that nuking is the only viable option. Essentially it'd become a Quick Draw for NINs, I guess.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Happy Friday everyone!

Please take a moment to read the below comment from Producer Akihiko Matsui regarding overall battle adjustments.


Elemental Magic

We have received a variety of feedback on elemental magic.
The first thing I’m thinking of doing is making adjustments to the damage calculations.

Here’s my current image of how elemental magic is going to work:
The damage output on earth element spells will initially be lower compared to the rest of the elements, but have the best cost performance overall. Also, INT will have an even larger impact on the damage output. As a result, players will basically try to raise their INT and magic attack to get closer to the damage output done by lightning element spells.

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Wait, it's player INT vs target INT and not player INT vs TARGET MND?

Yep, it's always been then way (Though Banish/Holy is MND vs MND IIRC). Always found that kinda weird but is what it is.

Well those numbers are for, 150 INT, 30 MAB (AF3+2 hands and AF2+2 head are 20 already), Innin, vs. an 85 INT enemy (pretty reasonable) with capped skill.
http://wiki.bluegartr.com/bg/Category:Ninjutsu

The Elemental magic changes are a step in the right direction, however i feel as though more needs to be done:

-Make Elemental Magic Skill affect damage

-Remove the decrease in damage from multiple mages casting at the same time on the same target.

-blm has horrible MP efficiency in comparison to sch or rdm. Please give it more ways to reduce mp costs and regain mp. The only reason this isn't talked about much is due to the fact that blm is only involved with events that give copious amounts of ways to recover mp.

-Events themselves really don't seem to invite magic damage with the heavy magic resistance compared to physical resistance and the lack of events that emphasize magic damage as a beneficial tactic.

-Mages don't have good brd / cor buffs in comparison to physical DD.

-Enmity, but you already said you would address that.

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Originally Posted by Kincard

I guess that's what the earlier poster meant by "it's a gear issue", since Ninja doesn't have a whole lot to choose from as far as magic damage gear goes.

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yup
similar issue for most magical wepon skills is that the jobs dont get gear to support them, you give nin black mage... hell blue mage class nukeing gear and im pretty sure they will rock your socks off, also agree with the statment se should greatly lower nin nukeing cast timers so they could use it in run and gun type strats

Personally I believe all magic designed to be cast my melee / hybrids should have a 0.5s cast time. This includes all ninjitsu and most dark magic (Absorbs). Absorb spells might actually be useful if they had a 0.5s cast time.

I wonder if they will adjust Impact at all. In some ways the utility of the spell may become more useful but the price tag for it's use is always an issue.

It would be nice if they adjusted the duration of the stat down to be un-resistible so that you always got something for blowing 666MP. The damage should still be normal, or at least normal after the adjustments. That way you can hit Dark resistant mobs with it and still get something out of a spell that requires an inventory space to cast.

Also, just make Scythes WSs actually good. I just don't care about Resolution anymore. I've spent some time thinking about it and I would rather DRK be in the game as something other than just bad.

I have to disagree on most of the changes... regarding dark knight, you wanna nerf it... LOWER THEIR VIT/DEF... that's what made them useless a long time ago. as for the sub idea I already tried it using blue mage, make the Occult Acumen better, and then it'll be a useful sub (remember that makes you gain tp per spell).

As for the WSes those things were broken since they started, and all you people who are saying pick and choose, I 100% agree, but I also 100% agreed that there should NOT be a limit on merit point categories.

The end, there are a lot of other things I'd like to debate on, but the whole statement Camate did was sort of a cluster... you know what, so for now I'll be done I can argue the two handed vs one handed things later.

That's just my opinion tho, there are probably a lot more out there

Looks like the Last Resort/Desperate blows haste effect will stay the same.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...874#post393874

That is, it will only apply to 2h weapons.


Also, the magic adjustments will apply equally to Automatons.

The change to Last Resort is not a useful change if it is only for 2H weapons, as it can only be properly utilized by Samurai.

You stated that you are aware that one-handers are suffering, but choose to only buff Samurai?

Make it affect all weapons or don't bother changing it.

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Originally Posted by Xilk

Looks like the Last Resort/Desperate blows haste effect will stay the same.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...874#post393874

That is, it will only apply to 2h weapons.

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Sometimes, I feel very happy that the Development Bros just work on a video-game instead of doing medical research or social work or anything that can really make people miserable when well-meaning things are done in a way that makes no damn sense.

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While currently, it might be difficult to imagine the situations where a front-line job would select dark knight for their support job, we would like to look into this based on this possibility.

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Since it was confirmed that the Last Resort adjustment will only work for Two-Handed Weapons, /DRK will pretty much only be useful for Samurais since they can stack Hasso with Last Resort for MASSIVE effect. DRG and WAR need /SAM because both lack any kind of useful defensive ability, additionally, /SAM offers Store TP, Meditate, Sekkanoki which are all extremely invaluable. /DRK almost cuts it for DRG because having BOTH an Attack Boost ability AND an Attack Speed ability are extremely appealing since DRG lacks both natively unlike WAR,SAM and DRK. The problem with DRG/DRK is it leaves us defenseless and the duration is only temporary unlike Hasso. If only you could give WAR and DRG their own Attack speed abilities so things like DRG/WAR or WAR/DRK could be viable as DRG and WAR are extremely reliant on /SAM much how many 1handed jobs used to be too reliant on /NIN for Dual Wield until it was given to THF/BLU/DNC recently.

SAM using Hasso with AF3+2 pants can already cap delay without Last Resort. At the delay cap, Last Resort will just give them a little more gearing freedom. It is a pretty major upgrade for Samurai in non-capped situations, but DRG and WAR should stick to /SAM for Hasso outside of zergs.

So instead of being an interesting buff for some 1H weapons in uncapped delay situations, this Last Resort change is a SAM buff. Considering Kogarasumaru is arguably the strongest weapon in the game, I can't see how this is justified.

Talk about how 1 handers can't keep up with 2 handers.

Buff SAM.

http://alltheragefaces.com/img/faces...kie-chan-l.png

Apparently details of that are to come. They were probably just concerned that SAM couldn't always keep up with DRK, and decided to cater to their precious DD.

Devs should just go back to pretending SAM was a tank like they used to, I think it would benefit most other jobs quite handsomely.

Greetings,

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Originally Posted by Byrth

Desperate Blows currently only applies to 2-handed weapons. Would Last Resort post-update still only give 2-handed weapon Haste, or would 1-handed jobs also be able to benefit from it?

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Currently, the development team plans to have the proposed Last Resort haste benefit only apply to two-handed weapons. The reason being is there are already a number of benefits that single-handed weapons posses such as dual wield, martial arts, etc.

We also wanted to share some additional inquiries about the battle system adjustments:

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What's going to happen with hand-to-hand weapons?

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Categorically hand-to-hand weapons fall under the single-handed weapon classification; however, the stats for hand-to-hand weapons are quite different from that of swords, which are literally held in just one hand, and they will not be treated the same. We will be separating hand-to-hand weapons from this balance adjustment and making changes that fit more in line with the weapon.

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Will the elemental magic adjustments apply to automatons as well?

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Yes, we will be applying the elemental magic adjustments to automatons as well. Though, by simply raising the stats for automatons there will be aspects that cause the automaton to overload easier and such, so we will be keeping these points in mind and looking at balance.

Lastly, we understand that some of you wish to be able to increase the number of merit weapon skills that can be fully upgraded, but this is something that we discussed previously. Instead of making it so you can get everything, we're thinking about making it so there will be benefits without having to max out a category, which will open up the choices a bit more.

I'm trying to understand a lot of the things said by the reps in this thread, but there is a chain of logic I simply cannot follow. From what I've read, it sounds like they think DRK is too powerful because of desperate blows:

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This is a topic that has been discussed in several threads, particularly one about dark knight being too powerful. As was commented during VanaFest, we feel dark knight is becoming powerful

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So they're going to nerf desperate blows while boosting last resort by exactly the same amount so... no nerf is really accomplished:

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•Current
•Desperate Blows +25%
•Post-adjustment
•Desperate Blows +10% (*Value with 5 merit points)
•Last Resort +15%

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But this makes it so that DRK becomes a new viable option for a SJ:

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Simply put, this adjustment will allow you to gain this effect in the case you use dark knight as your support job.

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But since this change will have no effect on one-handers:

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Currently, the development team plans to have the proposed Last Resort haste benefit only apply to two-handed weapons. The reason being is there are already a number of benefits that single-handed weapons posses such as dual wield, martial arts, etc.

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Then all of this is moot. There is only one job that seriously gains from using drk as a SJ, and that's samurai. Samurai is still a better SJ than drk because hasso can be on full time so you never lose the haste, plus the various TP benefits and seigan if stuff takes a turn for the worse. So forgive my ignorance if this is not the case, but this whole chain of logic looks like it is designed only to give SAM the ability to reach the same amount of JA haste that DRK can reach. And even then, it still probably won't be used over /war or /dnc.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for making it so there's more SJ diversity! And this change might just be one step towards making drk a more viable SJ with other changes on the horizon. But the whole reason people sub sam is it gives them massive boosts if they use a 2h weapon. Don't you think there should be SJ options that give you almost comparable boosts regardless of how many hands you use to hold your weapon? Also, I think it would be better to start with the jobs that people almost never sub (like cor, brd, pup, rng, drg, blu, bst, smn, mnk), not one that people situationally sub like drk.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings

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Thank you for answering more questions, however I would like to know if there is any chance mine might be answered. So that it is easier to find, my question and the post in which it in are right here.

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Originally Posted by Demon6324236

Since we have had a few questions directly answered in this thread it seems, I would like to ask one or two myself if possible. Is there any chance we will be seeing a point system in Voidwatch sometime before the release of Seekers, and if so, how might it work? I recall talk of Crystal Petrifacts being used for something else when the Chocobo Blinker nerf was done, and the ability to trade them for cruor was held back, around the same time is when we heard that we may be seeing more point system like functions in the game. So I would also like to know if they might be involved in something like that, or what the current plans are for Crystal Petrifacts outside of Provenance.

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I would be very happy if I could get some info about these things, as I feel they are very important to the future of Voidwatch and its items.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Greetings,


Lastly, we understand that some of you wish to be able to increase the number of merit weapon skills that can be fully upgraded, but this is something that we discussed previously. Instead of making it so you can get everything, we're thinking about making it so there will be benefits without having to max out a category, which will open up the choices a bit more.

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I think people would be satisfied if the cap was increased 5-10 points. The proposed idea of making them less powerful but having access to more doesn't come close to what the player base wants and the reasoning for it smacks of 2008.

Last Resort change is essentially worthless and is not conducive to the Dev Team's overall goals. 2h jobs won't see very much value in the change outside of lowman and low buff situations. Also, level the playing field between 1h and 2h jobs by buffing 2h, yes. That aside...

The 1h adjustments in general are pretty horrible. Simply increasing the STR/DEX conversion ratio for 1h weapons (through a limited resource no less) is not a good solution whatsoever. The attack and accuracy from STR and DEX are fairly inconsequential, the main issue is that 2h jobs have a huge edge generated from Job Abilities and, to a somewhat lesser extent equipment, while enjoying hefty bonuses when fighting high level targets.

Ergo, what 1h weapons need are their own set of unique attributes. A bonus to critical hit rate and/or critical hit damage parameters for all 1h weapons would do well to help leveling the playing field. I'd also suggest having Fencer activate while Dual Wielding rather than just when you're single wielding. These adjustments would help alleviate major issues with 1h weapons, especially 1h weapon's harsher penalties for fighting high level targets. It would also somewhat alleviate 1h job's general lack of strong attack buffs and lower overall attack scores across the board.

Alternative solutions, such as allowing 1h weapons to bypass part of level correction, increasing 1h weapon's ratio cap, or adding new job abilities, spells, and traits to all 1h jobs are also possible. I'll reiterate: STR/DEX conversion is not the most crippling issue facing 1h weapons, please do not focus on that aspect of it.

is it sad that i want the old directer over this new one

Proof that the dev team has no clue. The only thing /DRK will do is actually buff a mythic dragoon because they lack so much attack, and only for 3/5 minutes guys ! At the end of the day it's gimped SJ, and it would have also been so for one hander because delay caps at 80% anyway. No wait, you are better off WAR or MNK as always haha.

Due to this, please let the dev team know that what that do doesn't make sense. The only thing that is potentially making DRK overpowered is the relatively low HP loss per second during souleater, so if you want a nerf touch it ; but right now it's about 120 HP loss per second, no group can seriously afford it, so it's not that much threatening. I myself have done various maths and prior to souleater being accounted for, DRK does about the same damage as a relic MNK or an empy WAR.

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Originally Posted by Prothscar

Last Resort change is essentially worthless and is not conducive to the Dev Team's overall goals. 2h jobs won't see very much value in the change outside of lowman and low buff situations. Also, level the playing field between 1h and 2h jobs by buffing 2h, yes. That aside...

The 1h adjustments in general are pretty horrible. Simply increasing the STR/DEX conversion ratio for 1h weapons (through a limited resource no less) is not a good solution whatsoever. The attack and accuracy from STR and DEX are fairly inconsequential, the main issue is that 2h jobs have a huge edge generated from Job Abilities and, to a somewhat lesser extent equipment, while enjoying hefty bonuses when fighting high level targets.

Ergo, what 1h weapons need are their own set of unique attributes. A bonus to critical hit rate and/or critical hit damage parameters for all 1h weapons would do well to help leveling the playing field. I'd also suggest having Fencer activate while Dual Wielding rather than just when you're single wielding. These adjustments would help alleviate major issues with 1h weapons, especially 1h weapon's harsher penalties for fighting high level targets. It would also somewhat alleviate 1h job's general lack of strong attack buffs and lower overall attack scores across the board.

Alternative solutions, such as allowing 1h weapons to bypass part of level correction, increasing 1h weapon's ratio cap, or adding new job abilities, spells, and traits to all 1h jobs are also possible. I'll reiterate: STR/DEX conversion is not the most crippling issue facing 1h weapons, please do not focus on that aspect of it.

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This proposal for 1H users is the exact proposal that should be implemented. Then, we may finally have more job versatility in all events, whereas NNI and Legion typically just go 2H's. I believe this would open up more jobs like MNK, BLU, THF, NIN, and DNC to enter the fray.

This is in regards to the pace of battle we see in Most new content. As we have seen Battles become more fast pased and in quick succession, This leave little time to recover MP. I would propose that a reduction in MP Cost in addition to the changes proposed would help to balance Mages to the pace of battle.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Lastly, we understand that some of you wish to be able to increase the number of merit weapon skills that can be fully upgraded, but this is something that we discussed previously. Instead of making it so you can get everything, we're thinking about making it so there will be benefits without having to max out a category, which will open up the choices a bit more.

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Yeah well what if you are maxing out Requescat to compensate for how bad RDM is?

You really could stop pissing people off by giving us another 5 points so we could at least be 4/14 instead of 3/14. I'm sorry you don't understand your fan base and how people actually play this game. No one is going to choose to be voluntarily inferior to other people. That's how you get excluded.

You want people to actually play your game and attract new players? Well you're doing it wrong, because you aren't giving us incentives. We don't say nice things about FFXI because you won't just give us what we want sometimes when the reason you won't give it to us is nothing better than you don't feel like it. A little more wiggle room is the sort of policies that make people happy. The only thing that keeps your customers coming back is nostalgia after FFXIV failed it's first release.

You want us to get more people for you so you can make better profits? Make us happy.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Instead of making it so you can get everything

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One thing is "getting everything"
One thing is "getting 1-2 more".

Why does it have to be black or white? Why can't you find a better compromise that allows us to get one or two additional MAXED weapon skills? I don't want to have a WS that is not maxed, I'll never, ever, ever feel "good" if I know the WS I got is missing something, be this something 90% or 1%, I'll just never be satisfied by such a solution.

You said it yourself in the discussion you linked. Allow me to quote:

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

As a part of the character growth system, we will be increasing merit caps and adding new categories in the future. However, we will not be removing the cap entirely.

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See? INCREASING merit caps.
That's fine! Increase it! Give us 5 or 10 more points into the category, I'll be happy enough even with just 5 more (another maxed WS), I swear.
The fact that you are doing the change to the attribute % per merit level doesn't mean you can't ALSO give us 5 more points for the category. Give us both and we'll all be happy, I'm sure no living player will complain, and nobody will be able to cap everything.

See? Everybody is happy that way, it's so simple, why can't you just go that way? ("you" as in "Square Enix", I'm not pointing my finger at you specifically Oki, of course)

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Currently, the development team plans to have the proposed Last Resort haste benefit only apply to two-handed weapons. The reason being is there are already a number of benefits that single-handed weapons posses such as dual wield, martial arts, etc.

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Not wanting to mince words, this is a very, very dumb idea. It was stated that 1-handers need a leg up to compete with 2-handers yet the dev team decides to give more options to 2-handers. It boggles my mind how they've come to this conclusion.

The reason behind this is even worse, however. Yes, we have Enhance DW options, but 1-handed users are unable to compete 2-handers anyway, mainly due to less damage-based abilities. /DRK would've at least made this an option to explore, but now 1-handers don't even get the chance to experiment.

If you want to buff one hander there is only one choice : buffing /NIN or /WAR somehow. I'd personally go with increasing the benefit of STR on the weapon which will act as a DMG boost. Might also consider a JA that buffs STR/DEX/AGI that can be up 100%.

I don't much like the idea of what they're proposing for Merit Weaponskills, If only because they already nerf-Balanced a few of them to be "As powerful" As level 60 weaponskills when you cap them with merits (5/5).

If we're going down this path, unnerf Ruinator and Realmrazer, so that even at 1 merit with this new proposed update, they'd be worth using.

As of right now, Having 1 merit would be like having 3 in the old system... Which, They all still really sucked at 3/5 merits. 5/5 Is still going to be the only means of making them useful. Even 4/5 is going to leave you wanting. Square really doesn't seem to understand no one enjoys knowing they're gimping themselves in the name of diversity.

I just don't see very many (good) players going down the "1/5" or "3/5" Path with this new proposed adjustment... 5/5 Will still be the only level in which any of them are good since, again, you guys decided to balance most of them around their level 60 counterparts.

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Originally Posted by MarkovChain

If you want to buff one hander there is only one choice : buffing /NIN or /WAR somehow.

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There are more, better-thought-out options than merely buffing the SJs most frequently used by 1-handers. How about instead of that, they do the same thing they did when they gave sam hasso and seigan; turning a stupid SJ into one of the most commonly used SJs.

Unless of course I misinterpret everyone's feelings about the issue of SJs and we all enjoy the lack of diversity and adaptability.

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Originally Posted by Okipuit

Categorically hand-to-hand weapons fall under the single-handed weapon classification; however, the stats for hand-to-hand weapons are quite different from that of swords, which are literally held in just one hand, and they will not be treated the same. We will be separating hand-to-hand weapons from this balance adjustment and making changes that fit more in line with the weapon.

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Can we get some information about what adjustments are planned for hand-to-hand? You're right in that hand-to-hand is unique among weapon types. It has the disadvantages of both categories; the long delay of two-handed weapons with comparatively low base damage, and the accuracy and attack penalties than one-handers suffer. MNK and PUP are also unable to make use of the Sub slot.

Could we get some elaboration on this, please?

They might as well have put this thread in the DRG forums, as DRG is the only job that is ever likely to use DRK as a SJ.

WAR/SAM, SAM/WAR are always better options, as both get attack speed boost and att boosts.

DRK itself already has both att and att speed boosts, so it can sub either WAR or SAM for similar efficiency.

DRG however, loses att speed boost from hasso by subbing war, and att boost from berserk, by subbing sam.

DRG/DRK will therefore offer 3/5 mins of both att speed and att boost, while most importantly, offering a multi-purpose wyvern, which can be invaluable in some circumstances.

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Originally Posted by Yinnyth

There are more, better-thought-out options than merely buffing the SJs most frequently used by 1-handers. How about instead of that, they do the same thing they did when they gave sam hasso and seigan; turning a stupid SJ into one of the most commonly used SJs.

Unless of course I misinterpret everyone's feelings about the issue of SJs and we all enjoy the lack of diversity and adaptability.

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If they buff /WAR or /NIN significantly it will be the same as hasso. The main difference here, IMO, is that prior to hasso 2H-DD could not cap haste, while 1Handed DD can with (2march+haste), and fairly easily too. After thinking about it buffing /war will buff WAR so maybe it's a bad idea. So I think they need to buff /nin instead. That's if they want to buff a subjob. Innin and yonnin are already in place so I think it's time to make them SJ-able with more DD-potential.

If you analyze what makes 1 handed DD generally worse than other option, you'll see that it's

* accuracy (minor because SE fails to release decent content that needs acc).
( attack is not an issue because THF & NIN can sub war like everyone else.)
* Base DMG is weak and split into both hands.
* THF weaponskills are gimp.

Since one handed style is more focused on melee DoT, I suggested to buff melee to turn them into MNKs. Increasing the base DMG on weapon could be hard so intead I suggested to look at modifiers like fSTR, critical damage/rate etc.

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Currently, the development team plans to have the proposed Last Resort haste benefit only apply to two-handed weapons. The reason being is there are already a number of benefits that single-handed weapons posses such as dual wield, martial arts, etc.

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If it weren't for the fact that "currently" one handed weapons are vastly inferior to two handed weapons in ever possible way, I might see the point of this logic.

As a One handed weapon user, you either have dual wield/martial arts natively and can sub WAR, or you are just completely not in the universe of a relevant contribution to melee damage.

One handed weapon users could just some DD sub job versatility other than "sub WAR or you really suck."

And as others have said..Reevaluate the STR/DEX functions for one handers AND raise the Atack Cap.

If you don't raise the Attack Cap, it doesn't matter...one handed weapon users will never be competetive.

Changing the attack cap won't do anything because you are unlikely to reach it in 99% of the thing you do in the game. It's not the reason 2handers beat thf and nin anyway.

It's unrealistical to expect all jobs to perform exactely the same and swap to a game design approach of "bring the player, not the job", similar to what they did in WoW.
Or rather, you can achieve such a goal, but it requires huge changes within the game mechanics, and it's something that comes at a big cost (homogeneization).

As much as we all would love our favourite job to get a spot in every single game event, it's unrealistical to expect this and make so FFXI remains what FFXI has been so far.
In most other MMOs you level a single class per character. In these games, as a game designer, you can't really afford a class to be useless in the majority of end-game events, because every character can only have one class.
In FFXI there is a different design, and people who demand playing a single job are just playing the wrong game.
It could have been partially right many years ago when levelling a job and gearing it up to a minimum level of decency required months, but now you can do it very fast, so people have no excuse to have at least 2 jobs, and this is the minimum requirement that FFXI game designers should keep in mind, consider that all the players have at least 2 jobs. If one of your jobs is not useful for event X and Z, then maybe there are good chances it will be useful for event Y. If you want to do X and Z just level one of the many jobs that are more useful in those events.
I'm not saying this is an excuse for them to keep things as they are -it's pretty clear that SOMETHING has to be done for 1handers- I'm only saying that we can't expect all jobs to perform the same into every event, it's just unrealistical and as I mentioned at the beginning, it's something that comes at a big cost (homogeneization).


What they need to do imho is to make what currently is sometimes a huge difference into something smaller, at least for some jobs, and they can easily do that with some tweaks here and there (no, I don't think buffing /NIN or /WAR is the right solution, they need to do something on the main job).
But they should work more into giving each job more specific utilities, so that if you're in charge of being the Event Leader of your group, sometimes you may decide it's worth to replace your missing Reso DRK with another 1h job not just for the DPS (which will be lower) but for the utility/bonus it brings for all the group.

Imho this is the direction they should aim to, otherwise game would just become a bunch of homogeneized and boring jobs where everybody does exactely the same altough in different ways.