Making Jobs Rotationally Easier in 4.0

[Sarcatica]

The game already has issues keeping three tanks and three healers balanced with this meta, what do you think will happen if we have a 4th one of each in Stormblood ?

It's nothing new, there is always going to be the best jobs to bring to raid no matter what game you are in, top raiders just have to prepare themselves to be in that position to milk the future OPs.

EDIT: to elaborate, in all games anything near to perfect balance will never be achieved hence why you see defined metas, this applies heavily to the minority (top players) that affects the majority. When everything is balanced, game becomes stale and ofc no one wants that. When game introduces more fun things like utilities to whatever classes, guess what? There will still be no balance. People just tend to do whatever optimal and if you have been in games that top players have high influences, you will see the trend in that fashion.

[Reynhart]

It's nothing new, there is always going to be the best jobs to bring to raid no matter what game you are in, top raiders just have to prepare themselves to be in that position to milk the future OPs.

On paper, yes. But in reality, the less metrics you use, the easier it will be to point what setup is the best, especially since tanks have fairly low synergy with other jobs. That's why I'm suggesting to change/add some skills to include different ways of contributing to DPS.

Maybe I'm repeating myself too much, but I really like the idea of an OT PLD using Rampart or Sentinel on someone else, which would allow the MT to stay out of tank stance even for tankbusters.

People just tend to do whatever optimal and if you have been in games that top players have high influences, you will see the trend in that fashion.

Even that can be avoided in a way, by creating more synergies with different jobs. For now, NIN loves WAR because they bring the slashing debuff. You could create a synergy between PLD/DRK and some DPS (or healers). This way, unless everybody start to play the same job, you could have different equal setup. "If you have that job, it's better to bring this tank, if you have that other job, it's better to bring this healer, etc..."
Is it difficult to balance ? Yes, it is. But it's the only way you can continue adding more and more jobs without some of them being thrown out of the elite loop.

[Frowny]

Even that can be avoided in a way, by creating more synergies with different jobs. For now, NIN loves WAR because they bring the slashing debuff. You could create a synergy between PLD/DRK and some DPS (or healers). This way, unless everybody start to play the same job, you could have different equal setup. "If you have that job, it's better to bring this tank, if you have that other job, it's better to bring this healer, etc..."
Is it difficult to balance ? Yes, it is. But it's the only way you can continue adding more and more jobs without some of them being thrown out of the elite loop.

Agreed 100%. Would be nice to have more synergies beyond "WAR/SCH required".