Encounters need to be designed to let people play the class they want to.

Too many of the encounters or dungeons in the game are designed to encourage people to bring only certain classes. I can understand the need for a tank and a white mage but for damage dealers, there is an uneven skew toward certain jobs.

These changes should come along with the fact that paladin is being fixed to fulfill whatever it's intended role is. A lot of people cannot do content because they haven't leveled a certain class/job.

Any job can be used so long as it is played properly. I believe certain classes should fill certain niches, if there's no discernable difference between DDs then that's one boring-ass game. SE actually did fairly well at balancing this patch, apart from PLD all classes have a point during both new dungeons which they are more efficient at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVlLSzCff_o

Nope you can use whatever class you desire to ,
above Video of "Doctor Mog" prove that it's possible to do all class run.
As i always say that "other people just prefer to use some certain classes because it's easier"
Yes , you can use DRG in AV , WAR on Ifrit , MNK on Moogle and whatever class on Chimera
but party leader and other people in the party may not welcome you if you're not in LS party
(pickup party sure want to use the best strategy & party for the success run)
I don't think this is a game nor content fault

I would agree with this post if you were only allowed to play one class per character. But that is the great thing about this game you can play multiple classes and different encounters require different strategy and different variety of job setups, thats what made 11 so great, for me anyways.

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Originally Posted by Kantide

Too many of the encounters or dungeons in the game are designed to encourage people to bring only certain classes. I can understand the need for a tank and a white mage but for damage dealers, there is an uneven skew toward certain jobs.

These changes should come along with the fact that paladin is being fixed to fulfill whatever it's intended role is. A lot of people cannot do content because they haven't leveled a certain class/job.

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Its already designed that way; contrary to popular belief the community wants things to be as easy as possible so they go for easy setups.

Mixing and matching works well in this game imo. My linkshell and I always use whatever classes/jobs we have at the moment and it usually works (or we make it work, haha!).
Of course, some fights may suggest this class over some other, but it's not stopping you from trying to make other combinations work. Call me crazy, but I like the challenge of having a mixed setup :) More challenge!

Oh, look. This thread again.

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Originally Posted by Mirana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVlLSzCff_o

Nope you can use whatever class you desire to ,
above Video of "Doctor Mog" prove that it's possible to do all class run.

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I believe that all dungeons are internally balanced around this build (or something very close).

It should be the ideal way of attacking any endgame content.

They've come a long way in making sure classes feel welcome. The job restrictions -- meaning everyone does NOT have the same pool of abilities to choose from, really help facilitate fair play. Until the server structures are fixed, I don't see a lot of remaining help being distributed to classes that require more movement than others. You'll still probably see BRD/BLM in a more prevalent manner until the server/client ratio becomes responsive on a 1:1 ratio.

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Originally Posted by Kantide

Too many of the encounters or dungeons in the game are designed to encourage people to bring only certain classes.

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Utter lies.

You can't blame SE for the fact that players will ALWAYS find it easier to stack jobs instead of risking everyone knowing what they should be doing. This is the communities fault not SE's.