Developers, Please Address Samurai Kicking

[Lorielle]

That’s the case with ANY DPS job. I main BRD—what if the BRD spot in a party is taken? Well, I either make my own (where I’m the BRD spot), or find another one. It’s not that hard to just make your own party.

....Umm. You're a BARD. Not a job that is shunned from the community. Who are you going to take into a Parse Party? Samurai or Bard????? It's not hard to make them. But again, there's a myriad of parties competing for a handful of players that -cleared- the content.

People join for a variety of reasons. They don’t always automatically join the one that’s nearly almost full—I won’t join any party that doesn’t have a DRG because I want to at least parse well, and BRDs cannot get as high of a parse without a DRG. Make your own group if you want a clear on a particular job. All parties have to wait to fill, so it’s not like it’s “unfair” to ask you to wait as well.

Not automatically. Yes, there's X Factors. But you even stated it yourself? You won't join if there's no DRG. So if the Samurai is there with a Monk, would you bother joining then? No, right? Or maybe SAM/NIN~? The latter half is doable, but the point stands you won't be parsing high as you want because there's someone there you don't want. The only time a party waits for anything is usually when there's a healer missing. It's -never- the DPS that's missing from my experience. Though I can see the -occasional- Bard requirement but that's for min/maxing from DRG or vice versa. It's...not even a matter of being asked to wait...Lol. It's just a literal "No one wants Samurai". Perform well, you still aren't wanted. Even a friend who I proved to I'm not a crap Samurai will still say "I don't like it" and will prefer the meta.

More often than not, I see groups with all slots open to any job. Looking at PF now, there are plenty of Kefka prog/learning and God Kefka prog groups that do not have SAM locked out—the melee are split within gear drops (e.g., “MNK/SAM”), but most are “MNK/SAM/DRG/NIN” for all 4 melee jobs.

I'd like to see these weekly clears for God Kefka that you see. Cause I promise I wouldn't complain if this wasn't an issue. I dunno when you looked, but I could have very well been in a God Kefka party as Ninja at the time. So at the time -I- was seeking members, that was not the case. Now, do not misunderstand, I do make parties -if- there's not tons of parties up already because, -once again- there is only a handful of people that have cleared. There's reasons why parties wait hours just to even fill for a lockout. And those are Kefka Prog...? I mean, I don't honestly think anyone cares about the comp save doubles when it comes to Prog. But clearing? Different story fam.