Making The DRK/PLD Comp Viable/Meta - Think They're Gonna Do It?

[Makeda]

and jobs like WAR/SCH have always been meta no matter what. Almost no one but the most casual and innocent of pugs will currently tolerate not having a WAR in the group.

Not in 2.0

For all of 2013, WAR was considered non-meta. Go back and look at very old posts - people who leveled WAR were complaining up a storm, threatening to unsub, bad-mouthing the devs, and so on... There were angry debates over whether it was even "possible" to tank the raid on a WAR, if a group could even get a clear if either tank was WAR. The people who claimed to have done it, were being called liars...

That persisted for some time (I left the game right before housing came out, and it was still the 'meta' was WAR was not considered viable in content above the mid 40s, despite many people on them claiming to have cleared raid content)...
I came back right as Heavensward launched, but only stayed for about a month, and then came back again this past March...

Don't use 'always' if you joined in 2016...

I'm missing the period in between... so I also wouldn't dare use the words 'always'... but I was there at the start, and the idea of what classes were viable was once very different than it is now.

4.0 could radically flip all of this all over again. I'm working to ensure I at least have all 3 tank classes to 60 for the Stormblood launch so I don't have to suffer through any 'design flaws'...