Quote Originally Posted by Dwill View Post
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Dragoons, Summoners, and Beastmasters weren't discriminated against anymore than melee DPS were discriminated against when Garuda EX was first released. They weren't barred from doing content, they just had to potentially wait longer or make their own groups. What we have now isn't even balance, it's just a sense of "sameness" that permeates every role except for the healers which actually do fulfill different niches at present. It's fine for now because the actual selection of jobs is so small, but as more jobs are added more people will start to see that they're fundamentally no different than what we already have in terms of everything except how you press your buttons to get the same results as the other person.

Balance should be a goal to strive for, but it shouldn't be some constricting factor that prevents jobs from actually branching out off of one another.