Quote Originally Posted by Hyperia View Post
"all healers are viable"
Tell that to the "Meta" crowd.
As someone who has felt the stigma attached to the jobs I enjoy the most (white mage, bard and paladin), this saddens me.
On all 3 of these jobs, I've been excluded from content by the community. It's not enough to just be viable.
A job needs to be designed to be competitive, and balanced with all other jobs in the same role. This is poor design, and I hold Yoshida and the devs 100% responsible for it.
SE has chosen to embrace the DPS meta, and failed to maintain job balance. I don't see it changing anytime soon, either. It will be a different shade of lipstick on the same pig over and over again, while the player base opts for whatever the current flavor-of-the-patch happens to be.
SE really doesn't give a sh*t, either, as long as they collect their 14.99 every month. If they did, we wouldn't have the mess we're in now.