Quote Originally Posted by Asierid View Post
Aside from the fact that WAR was a worthless and broken tank when it came to raid content in 2.0, which has nothing to do with the statement. He means currently, which all classes are capable of. People are just basing this off of the "elite" raiders wanting to beat it before anyone else, thus using top DPS comps to do so.
Yes, if you throw any job at i105 content at i120/i130, theyll handle it no problem. I never played XI end game, but I have a feeling if you drastically outgeared any of the content, you could do it with any job/subjob combo. DRGs suffer at the current gear level similar to how WARs suffered in 2.0. DRG needs MORE gear than MNK or sacrifices more main stat for more VIT (i90 ruby crafted) to still do less damage. If a WAR had enough gear in 2.0 they could tank any of the content, it would just be much harder to heal them.

So, yeah, if you outgear the content you can do the content as anything no matter how suboptimal your job is. If you're at the ilvl for the content, taking drastically more damage than the other melee DPS, and providing no unique utility besides boosting the BRD's damage (which doesn't outweigh a second MNK still or a NIN) then I think you're in dire straits. If you honestly think that's fine and that doing substandard DPS while providing pretty much nothing else to your group, literally being completely outclassed by both other melee jobs is acceptable because "with enough gear anyone can do anything!" then I'd like to hear your thoughts on removing all of Bard's songs and how viable/important he is to a group comp anymore.