Quote Originally Posted by Thunda_Cat_SMASH View Post
All of the above jobs cannot reach their own maximum dps without the assistance of another class. Ranged are buffed by disembowel, casters or buffed by foe requiem and hyper charged bishop, and all physical are buffed further by hyper charged rook. Most every job relies on some other job to help them reach max potential, The exceptions being Monk and DRG. If a casual player knows this, I would've thought a raider would too.

But, you know. Paladin Princess Snowflakes.
But the situations you mentioned don't cause the other job classes to be excluded from content.

You can have a BRD/MCH in the party along with casters and still have DRG in the party for maximum synergy, but said composition would still not be the be all end all composition for any raids. One could change out 1 or even both of the casters for another melee DPS be it MNK or NIN and it still would not be considered a DPS loss raid-wide. Their situation is called balance and job synergy where bringing X combination of DPS classes does not make it the best there is and that there are other combinations which are just as good.

The situation with WAR vs PLD/DRK right now is, if you remove WAR, there is currently absolutely no reason why a PLD+DRK pairing would make up for not bringing a WAR along.