What can the dev team do to satisfy the critics of 1.18?

[Serdapi]

No I fall into the group that likes to think outside the box. I have yet to Darkhold and I am an ARC. Though when I do go my setup will be however I choose to make it based on the people I play with, that's how it should be. Obviously your solution is "I'm a 45 MRD and can't get gear I want because nobody will invite me and I can't make a party because that's hard, then finding a way to beat the boss with party I make is harder, so lets complain about classes" (since we are making assumptions) which is cool but you can't deny that any non-range people tend to cry wolf about range people in nearly any game that makes them feel left out.

Letting SE know that people are lazy and upset because the efficient way doesn't favor the job they picked/enjoyed is wise? No. The content is there, it can be done with different setups if people leave out the rest it is the communities fault not SE's. My group currently only has MRD LNC ARC GLAD AND CON, we aren't going to say "oh shit dude you're my friend and all but you didn't level ARC/GLAD/CON so you can't go with us into darkhold." Also by your logic if I did tell my friend he couldn't go, it's SE's fault not mine. Good to know.

[Syon]

"I'm a 45 MRD and can't get gear I want because nobody will invite me and I can't make a party because that's hard, then finding a way to beat the boss with party I make is harder, so lets complain about classes" (since we are making assumptions)

i've never said u were one that does 4xarc 2xcon 2xgla (idk where u picked that from, i simply stated that being a r50 arc u shouldn't and most likely don't care of the actual problems with pt set up), neither have i said that i'm having problems of sort or complaining about classes... that said, i wouldn't know if it's SE's fault for not thinking it out or community's for "always go the easy way", nor have i said anything about SE being the cause of this <.< but it's way more simple for them to fix the thing in later patches than to change how ppl think imo