Good grief... are you really that dense? No, BLM had it's role for stuns, DOT/Enfeebles, and Magic bursting. Having 2/5 in an element vs 5/5 in an element wasn't as game breaking as not having Freeze2 at all. Now, 2/5 Shoa vs 5/5 Shoha----which SAM is gonna be asked?

It's like the guy that held us up in sky for almost an hour once because we didn't have the right skill chain options he wanted. We finally got tired of it, and our party with a BLU ran off to make our own GD chains for people to burst off of and we got our crap done.. Yes....that's right... when I built up enough TP on BLM, even I occasionally opened up Darkness chains and we got busy while one groups sat around complaining about not having the optimal setup. And all it took was me having WSNM's killed to make it happen. Something ANYONE can have in their arsenal, regardless of what is going on in their merits. That's the freedom we are talking about---having the flexibility to get things done the way we want it, not with one specific cookie cutter role we are forced to play in.

THAT is the problem. People want even MORE specific builds that are more merit WS focused, or it's GTFO. These tight restrictions are just further increasing this rigid mentality.

SE either needs to make jobs more relevant without the new merit WS in their arsenal, or make the merit WS more available to more jobs.