Quote Originally Posted by Fermion View Post
Maybe they should limit the amount of simultaneous buffs. It's getting silly that every serious endgame strategy is reduced to Cor, Geo, Brd, Run, Whm, DD, throw on a bunch of buffs, and just have the DD spam WS till victory. For a game with such diverse jobs, it's a shame how all that job diversity gets ignored for the same old parties for every...freaking...event. I don't even blame the community. Because everything is such a grind, may as well do it in the easiest way possible.

With the meta party setup, it takes 90% of the strategy out of the game. At least if we had limited buffs, we'd actually have to think again about our strategies again. Not scripted events like run 20 yalms away at 50%, I'm talking about real strategy, like if we're limited to 10 buffs, that'd make us think of buffs as precious limited resources, and kick out a couple support jobs, thereby letting people come to events on jobs they actually enjoy.
We're already limited in the songs/rolls you can have, max is 12. It wasn't limited before, but a few years ago SE capped it.