This whole Meta Party thing is hurting me. x_x

[Veliena]

I think the main issue is how the "meta" is approached by players and the devs.

Meta is used in various ways, and yes it can be considered a speed run tool, it is useful in other situations as well.

For speedrunning, it provides the fastest kills, generally.

For the rest of the community its just a safer bet. You could bring a BLM or SAM and clear, yes. But, a BLM or SAM, for example, would have to preform at say, 85+ percentile. Where you could have simply brought a say, NIN, who, even if performing at say 65 percentile, still provides buffs ect for the group. So, the nin is a safer bet.

The issue then is, how do we fix this? I think the easiest way, is to increase the number of people in a raid from 8 to say, 12.