Growing tired of this Stigma

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

The problem with the current META is that it has BEEN the META for over 3 years now. I think its about time DRG, NIN, and BRD/MCH lost their time in the spotlight, no?

At least with the healers and tanks, they have somewhat rotated which was the better set.

I just hope we don't see the META crowd complaining about SAM having higher DPS after its buffed.

"It has no utility and the damage isn't high enough so we don't need it." Will inevitably turn into "SAM is too strong now, my utility isn't good enough, thanks SE, why you do this."

And then to those people I will say, "But I thought META only mattered at the top 5%, and that any job is viable and you should just play what you like."

[AkashiXI]

The problem with the current META is that it has BEEN the META for over 3 years now. I think its about time DRG, NIN, and BRD/MCH lost their time in the spotlight, no?

What do you want them to do with MCH and BRD? They’re utility based jobs with decent damage (comparing to the top DPS jobs), of course they’re going to be coveted by the large majority. In 4.0 we saw a lot of utility given to all jobs, which evened out the playing field. Dragoon got even better utility, Monk has Brotherhood, Red Mage has Embolden, etc etc. The main problem is the non-meta jobs don’t bring enough for the group, and thus get excluded.

So no, I don’t think Bard and Machinist need to change in anyway, however it’d be nice to see other jobs become more interchangeable.

[Bernkastelx]

What do you want them to do with MCH and BRD? They’re utility based jobs with decent damage (comparing to the top DPS jobs), of course they’re going to be coveted by the large majority. In 4.0 we saw a lot of utility given to all jobs, which evened out the playing field. Dragoon got even better utility, Monk has Brotherhood, Red Mage has Embolden, etc etc. The main problem is the non-meta jobs don’t bring enough for the group, and thus get excluded.

So no, I don’t think Bard and Machinist need to change in anyway, however it’d be nice to see other jobs become more interchangeable.

Just saying 4.0 furthered the obvious meta and made it stronger in no way you can sit there and say it evened the playing field at best it just exposed the balancing issues this game has had near the beginning. At stormblood's release smn/mch/mnk were in such a questionable spot makes you think about what their team even tests before releasing it. It shouldn't have taken around 5 months to finally fix some of the blatantly obvious issues mnk had and around 3 months to fix mch.