Quote Originally Posted by Sfchakan View Post
Okay, Square, let me explain this to you: this is content you made that isn't broken, incredibly boring, and has been desired for longer than a month. This is content we like..
Can I make an argument that the AA battles are in fact incredibly broken, because the only classes people want for DD are ranged classes that don't end in the word mage. For a setup, people only want PLD RNG RNG WHM BRD COR, or something to that effect. That's the STANDARD battlefield set up for AA battles, and I never see shouts for the other 2 fights that aren't ark angels, the two zilart brother fights. These NMs each have highly damaging AoEs that the only way to safely get near them for melees is to sub /NIN because all the aoes are absorbable by shadows. For one thing, I thought modern content had moved away from requiring a /NIN sub. And second thing, melee cannot survive against the ark angels for very long. PLD cannot keep hate off melee damage dealers, and the second a melee grabs hate, he's going down unless he can juggle shadows long enough for the tank to reacquire hate. I've done the AA HM, MR, EV, and GK with various levels of success (I did EV when it came out unsuccessfully, getting totally destroyed with a shout group not knowing what we were getting into, ran out of time on GK, while MR and HM I've been able to down as a melee). These fights make me feel like a BAD PLAYER, because the strength of their aoes can kill me despite having decent gear, 119 weapons, ninja shadows, etc. Most groups will NOT invite a melee, leaving 90% of the jobs in the game out. Sometimes a THF gets invited, depending on who is setting up the group, because treasure hunter does affect AA drops to my knowledge. All of this AA fighting I've done was done on NORMAL difficulty. I cannot imagine doing this content as a melee on difficult or very difficult. Maybe someone who actually was able to complete this content and upgrade AF1/AF2 gear for all their jobs would confirm or refute my claims. I'm just surprised I don't see anyone complaining about this kind of thing in this thread. Everyone's complaining about not being able to get in.

TL;DR version: rangers, corsairs are the only favored DD jobs for AA fights. Consider changing these fights so other jobs can actually complete this content. Not even BLM are wanted because of the AA's magic resistance, or just because no one wants BLMs for anything any more (and this is coming from someone who plays BLU and SAM mostly).