Quote Originally Posted by Shiyo View Post
If you nerf geo then there's 3 viable jobs for support instead of one ;/(geo bard cor)
At 75 cap there was 2(cor bard)
Nerfing geo to the ground balances the support jobs.
There's multiple support jobs now. You nerf Geo to being useless, you essentially removed a job out of play. No one will go: "Well..now that Geo is worthelss...I guess...we'll take BRD and COR." The whole reason people shy away from BRD/COR depending on slot availablity is because they haven't been updated to the current game design, BRD in particular.


Nerfing Geomancer doesn't change that. You just succeeded in getting a job you hate nerfed. That's it lol. The game won't suddenly change, balance will not be restored.

At 75 cap you had BRD and COR, during Abyssea (80-95) you had no use for BRD/COR because Atmas and temp items pretty much made them largely useless. They had niche uses, sure, but you could definitely do all of the content without them. Heroes big baddies were subjective though.

I don't care about a JOB ROLE being a mandatory slot, but geo isn't a role
Geomancer is a support job. It's role is support. It can also nuke, similar to how SCH can heal and nuke as well.

Right now geo fills a mandatory role in a party that ONLY geo can do
It fills the exact same role as a healer or tank in an MMORPG. You want a Tank and Healer and Support. There's no such thing as a "geo" role or you have to dig deeper through the years and say:

"PLD role"
"Whm role"
"Sam role"
"Brd role"
"Cor role"

etc. Your logic is all over the place. Geo has unique buffs and debuffs. Cor has unique buffs and enhances certain debuffs though quickdraw, which makes it unique over BRD.

The only problem here is BRD and COR needs retooling a bit. COR can and has always been able to deal decent damage along with being able to support, so it is indeed better off than BRD, but BRD has always struggled since post WoTG because, well the game continued to move up but BRD and COR's buffs were never changed to matched - even more so with ilvl calculations now. This is a big part of why GEO shines because it's designed for the new gameplay.