Quote Originally Posted by Lerris View Post
The best example I've seen of an encounter rewarding diversity was the first part of the Alexander fight in ToAU, where Raubahn developed resistances to the predominant damage types in his second and third incarnations, encouraging parties to have a melee DD, magic DD and a ranged DD. This of course forced the party to be balanced for the second part of the fight as well.
Things like that would be great, but then you have the issue of being forced to have a certain job type. What if nobody from your LS has levelled that job, or there's nobody free online from one of those jobs? It's the same issue that we had in XI where we couldn't even level unless we had a fairly specific setup for a party.