Quote Originally Posted by Sapphic View Post
Yet the players shoehorned many jobs into doing only specific things, SMN as healing, RDM as enfeebler, SCH as stunner, NIN as tank. The flexibility wasn't there because the playerbase didn't allow it. Try going as something that wasn't "accepted" by the community and see how long it took you to get a party that wasnt just more open minded and accepting friends.

Not to mention many encounters dictated what job you used. Magic resist mobs, weak to this, strong to that. You wouldn't use MNK against leeches, but you would against skeletons.
Too true. But enfeebling was a sideline for RDM. You were really there to keep Refresh up on all the other mages.