Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
If SE really is interested in class balance, they have some serious work to do on lancer if they want to make it into a party-support DD. That at least is a viable concept though--Corsair-class job will work.

But pugilist and marauder need fundamental overhauls or they need placed at the epitome of damage, hands-down. Right now, there is NO point in wasting a party slot on a marauder or pug in those R50 dungeons if the fights are many and the bosses are as good as we all hope they are.

They WILL sit in town the second this game gets hard unless something is done. People will start making fun of marauders and pugs just like blms, plds, nins, and rdms made fun of dragoons and thieves when they tried to defend themselves in XI.
well if the dunegeons have a decent amount of multi mob battles, a marauder can do pretty good damage, and is better at holding multiple targets hate.
But overall, the current trend is towards archer, and unless monsters have much more hp, people will probably still be better off blowing them up with archers, and running around kiting the links till other archers can blow them up.