Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
This may be anecdotal evidence vs. anecdotal evidence, but I have not seen any of this harassment "because your choices led to 1% less DPS", ever.
See, now in my WoW days, I have. Granted, this was back in much earlier expansions where people were ridiculed for picking talents (or even specs) that were considered "wrong" because they felt more comfortable playing them rather than going for what was deemed the most optimal. The last couple of expansions though, it doesn't seem like players there have the time or effort to harass you and just kick you instead without any warning. Playing a mage in WoW, I was blocked from joining some raid groups for preferring to play a spec that was never the most optimal at that time (by like 5-10%) just because I couldn't stand playing a spec that was deemed the absolute best.

You're also not factoring in the labor involved since there's about as much detail to any job in FFXIV as one spec of one class in WoW. When you think WoW is trying to balance classes, what they're really doing is trying to balance every talent (21 per spec) of every spec (36 in total) of every class (all 12 of them). Given how hard it is to balance 15 jobs in this game, do you REALLY think we need that much more that would require balancing?