Quote Originally Posted by kobe-sabi View Post
META! If the job is built more to help, people will go to that job over others. the only people who care about META are world first clearest and people who care about what Reddit say even thought the players who are listening are not on the same skill level. The problem is their should be more party composition, SE needs to think about more jobs that work in conjunction with others,
Which results in the DRG/BRD/MCH dilemma. All this accomplishes is forced compositions as very few BRD/MCHs want anything to do with groups who aren't running DRG. As for meta. No, Meta is relevant to everyone. You don't have to be World First caliber to benefit from Trick Attack, Litany and etc. Those abilities are simply better. Put it this way, an 80% DRG will still contribute more overall damage to the party than a 90% SAM. Does that mean people should be utterly beholden to the meta comp? No. But dismissing it outright is equally naive. Just because every job can clear content doesn't mean each job is good. A prime example of this is WHM. There is precisely one thing WHM has over AST: Divine Benison. That is it. In every other category, AST utterly dominates WHM's entire kit. Therefore, playing WHM is objectively inferior regardless of whether you're a 99% player or a 50%

In scenarios such as the aforementioned, it's fundamentally bad design when a job is that much better than its counterpart.