Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
What do you want? My impression was you wanted encounters that negate the trinity within the constraints of Final Fantasy XIV's established systems. Yes, that would leave DPS' jobs mostly intact.
....I told you my theory and what I wanted in the last commentary. Though, how would you define mostly intact? Because several abilities would have to be reworked fully or they'd be outright useless in non-trinity style combat.

Would a chicken-run encounter suck more for a hard casting Black mage than a Summoner who can rely on DoTs? Absolutely.
Would the tryhard community shun suboptimal DPS, no matter how the encounter is tuned? Eeeh they already do, nothing new here.
This feel mostly like goading to me, not to mention, people don't just shun certain DPS, but tanks and healer combinations as well. Though, not so much with the healers anymore and the Dark Knight flack is starting to lessen over time. You'll get the few rare apples that hate Dark Knights in endgame still.

However, and this is where the "I do not expect DPS players to understand" comes from: you would still get to play your role. Hitting stuff on the head to make it go "ouch".
....Yea, this is starting to sound like a debate where you mostly just want to be told that you're absolutely right and nothing else, instead of bouncing off of ideas. So, I'm just going to kind of stop this here because I see us getting no where if that's your sole reasoning to say that silly line. I could just as easily say something like "I don't expect healers to understand me", but I won't because it's the most absurd reasoning to use in order to say something along the lines of "My opinion is more validated than yours. So, deal with it".

If you abandon the trinity for any encounter, that is ALL that remains. W/o healing and tanking, what is there to do but kite and DPS?
This was the only one thing that you have merit in and I can agree with, but everything else.....ehhhhh. Yea, just going to stop here because I don't think we can come to terms honestly. So, agree to disagree.