Survey: Community Opinions Regarding Parsing/Parsers in Final Fantasy XIV

[Tridus]

if the boss randomly decided to increase enmity on one party member, it would break your shirk combo. If they nerfed nin shadewalker, youd be screwed. If DRG only buffed spear damage instead of all piercing damage, and all buffs were solely for each jobs weapon type, you'd lose so much advantage that you'd be scrambling for a new meta. If healing potency dropped, you'd have no choice but to stay in tank stance and use jobs with mitigation in tank stance. most of you guys vastly overrate your skill and underrate how much the mob design more or less give certain party metas free reign.

You seem to be under the delusion that the current meta didn't spring out of how the game works now, and that it hasn't changed over time as classes and mechanics were altered.

If SE nerfed Shadewalker and buffed incoming damage to the point that tank stance was necessary, raiders would adapt. They always have before.

[Oscura]

You seem to be under the delusion that the current meta didn't spring out of how the game works now, and that it hasn't changed over time as classes and mechanics were altered.

If SE nerfed Shadewalker and buffed incoming damage to the point that tank stance was necessary, raiders would adapt. They always have before.

Exactly.

It's like people forget that at one point in this game's lifespan that Shadewalker didn't even exist.