Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
... this is a seriously flawed perspective. Why bother balancing jobs period then? Who cares if Monk gets buffed come 5.1. After all, the only thing that matters is the weakest job can still clear. It doesn't matter that by switching from Red Mage to Black Mage, you make it far easier on your healers because you're more likely to skip mechanics. And it doesn't matter that even if you're one of the best Red Mages in the game, a slightly above Black Mage still does better than you.

Blaming it on the community is silly, especially when it's actually more beneficial to take two Black Mages than any of the Range.

There is no point in balancing any further then necessary to enable all possible class combinations to clear current end game content when played at above Joe average level. There is no issue with job a perfoming better than job b that's the nature of diversity. It's those fault who lock out others bc they follow the path of least resisance. Nothing the devs can do will ever change that, there will always be someone complaining/being locked out. Albeit comps that are able to skip mechanics in current content shouldn't exist.