Are we not the most lackluster job in the game ?

[Xenosan]

I guess player skill is irrelevant.

Actually, it is.

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This is where balancing matters. And this is the fear I have for FFXIV - that at some point - it will diverge into FFXI's Job hierarchy where this is precisely what happens. In FFXI if I beat a WAR at DPS on parse, that says nothing of how good I am or how viable my Job, it just says that this specific WAR I'm paired with sucks. And had I rolled WAR instead of my current Job - bringing the same level of gear obsession and Job mastery that I'm already doing as an inferior job - my results would be even better and more helpful to the party.

But SE just unrolled 3 new jobs, a new level cap, and an expansion of content and zones and raids (already clipping base classes on them and throwing them into an Extra Jobs category to reduce development time). I'm sure they're playing reaction now trying bring things in line.