Job balancing?

[Obysuca]

halftime pup/blm

suffered for the damage of the gimp monk pet jobs.

Theres your problem right there >_> no reason for them to have been /blm

[Jin_Uzuki]

Yes, I'm sure if you look hard enough, in 14 years of FFXI you'll find out someone 6-men party Kirin during 75 era using only a party of PUP.

Doesn't mean people actually wanted and asked someone to bring their PUP to Sky and Sea. Unless you were the HNMLS leader friend or PUP was the only job you ever leveled or they were really pitying you or something.

"Every job was viable ever" is flat out revisionist history.

No one wanted BST for a long time. BLM suffered once people discovered you could just TP burn everything. DRG was lol-drg for a while. RDM supplanted WHM for a long time. SMN always struggled.

And let not get me started how hard was reaching 75 for certain jobs (I'm sure everyone who leveled BLM during Toau era knows the joy of Colibri and Imps party)

[OmnysValefor]

Great example. The distaste for the classes was so thorough that they weren't even desired in exp.

Bst, pup, smn ("{main} {heal}?"), drg (before penta).

And let's not even talk about the exclusionary nature of merit parties. In toau, this extended to thf, pld, and kind of dnc--which could "tank".